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XMPP vs Signal vs WhatsApp: an honest privacy comparison

How sovereign XMPP stacks up against Signal and WhatsApp on encryption, metadata, and who controls your identity.

A step-by-step guide to running your own XMPP server with Prosody on a small VPS — TLS, accounts, and where E2E encryption fits in.

A sovereign messenger is one you control end to end — your identity, your keys, your server. Here is what that buys you, and what it costs.