<![CDATA[Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box]]>What is Snikket?

Snikket is a messaging platform that is different to the mainstream messaging apps. Instead of entrusting your conversations and messages with proprietary servers β€œin the cloud” that analyze and sell your data, we like to do things a little differently.

Snikket lets you run your own service, that you control, on the system of your choice. For many people this is a cheap private server (VPS) or even a Raspberry Pi.

Instead of your messaging app connecting to hidden far-away servers managed and owned by a large corporation, your Snikket app will connect directly to your personal Snikket server.

https://snikket.org/service/
https://snikket.org/
https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-server/

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/4188/snikket-server-your-own-messaging-server-in-a-boxRSS for NodeMon, 08 Jun 2026 23:29:51 GMTTue, 12 Jan 2021 21:38:16 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:40:30 GMT]]>@murgero https://forum.cloudron.io/topic/10465/xmpp-server-prosody/44?_=1769150280326 This is the best place to look. I've pushed a repo, I've made a docker image, and I've listed the steps I followed to set it up on my own server. It's been running for over 8 months now and I haven't had issues, other than the workarounds I have to do for Cloudron packaging limitations.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/119007https://forum.cloudron.io/post/119007Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:40:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:33:43 GMT]]>@djxx Do you have a repo link? Would love to see if there is a way to start moving away from the hacky stuff and get this on the store!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/119002https://forum.cloudron.io/post/119002Fri, 23 Jan 2026 00:33:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:23:57 GMT]]>At this point, I don't think the issue is having something that can be packaged. I've already packaged Prosody and it's working fine on my Cloudron. The problem is all the "hacky" things I had to do to make it work that aren't currently compatible with how packaging works - and Snikket will need to do some of those same things. So, our issue is still getting enough attention from the Cloudron team to get XMPP over the finish line.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118955https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118955Thu, 22 Jan 2026 04:23:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:16:20 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates can you ping him and ask how hard the upkeep would be for a new fork the way we need it?

Perhaps call it Snicketteer πŸ™‚

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118950https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118950Wed, 21 Jan 2026 21:16:20 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:46:36 GMT]]>Thanks for explaining. A shame as I liked the sound of Snikket (and it's by one of the lead devs of Prosody, I think)

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118945https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118945Wed, 21 Jan 2026 19:46:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:30:39 GMT]]>@robi said in Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box:

Maybe it's a simple thing to adjust in the code and have a fork.

Then there is the maintenance issue.

Yes, the maintenance would be quite an issue. I guess Snikket will put 0 effort into not breaking customizations they told people not to make in the first place.

Prosody (and ejabberd) take care to be backwards compatible with older configurations, and follow a well-documented deprecation process when they're going to make breaking changes.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118941https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118941Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:30:39 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:26:43 GMT]]>Maybe it's a simple thing to adjust in the code and have a fork.

Then there is the maintenance issue.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118939https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118939Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:26:43 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:21:27 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates What it requires is that your username matches the TLD it is deployed to, which means it needs to be installed as the "root" application on that domain. This is incompatible with Cloudron, and frankly with how many organizations operate. It's very common to have XMPP installed somewhere like xmpp.domain.com , and the protocol supports configuration to use the TLD for accounts. This is one of the areas where Snikket is firmly standing by "it should be so simple and require no configuration" - so either you install it at the root or you live with ugly usernames like user@xmpp.domain.com.

I don't think it's worth the time to customize something that doesn't want to be customized - but rather use something that is meant to be configured and come up with sane defaults that fit Cloudron. That's what I've tried to do with my Prosody packaging.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118936https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118936Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:21:27 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:11:57 GMT]]>@djxx said in Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box:

The #1 reason I didn't package Snikket is not being able to use my TLD for accounts. It's a common convention to use user@domain.com for both e-mail and XMPP, but Snikket doesn't support this.

Really? That sounds very odd. Does it require subdomains, or what?

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118907https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118907Wed, 21 Jan 2026 08:11:57 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:14:30 GMT]]>Thanks for the upvote! I'm biased, but I think Prosody is the better choice. Snikket has too many things they do not (and possibly never will) support. The #1 reason I didn't package Snikket is not being able to use my TLD for accounts. It's a common convention to use user@domain.com for both e-mail and XMPP, but Snikket doesn't support this. The #2 reason is SSO - Snikket doesn't support it but SSO is one of my favorite features of most Cloudron apps.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118895https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118895Wed, 21 Jan 2026 03:14:30 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:28:22 GMT]]>Lets support XMPP on Cloudron by packaging Snickket! There is an ai summary of progress since @robi made the original request here:

https://privatebin.demo.cloudron.io/?39e1a2ac0124f319#7wVtyc66t51BK2SpX7TudDPVpZm5sDqSmJCDvsrBqCXn

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118415https://forum.cloudron.io/post/118415Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:28:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:18:51 GMT]]>@LoudLemur Snikket is just an XMPP server - any XMPP client that supports the same XMPP Extensions it uses it will work fine.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85765https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85765Tue, 26 Mar 2024 13:18:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:28:36 GMT]]>Here is the web portal:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-web-portal

And here are the self-hosting instructions:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-selfhosted

And here is the source repository for building Snikket service Docker images:

https://github.com/snikket-im/snikket-server

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85646https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85646Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:28:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:21:08 GMT]]>Snicket seems to only have clients for Android and Mac:
https://github.com/search?q=topic%3Aapp+org%3Asnikket-im&type=repositories

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85645https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85645Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:21:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:11:08 GMT]]>@girish Yes, I understand. Thank you for the information.πŸ‘πŸ‘

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85644https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85644Mon, 25 Mar 2024 08:11:08 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:55:11 GMT]]>@girish We have been running Jitsi on Cloudron for agest and it still works well.

I hope somebody can manage XMPP on Cloudron for us soon.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85638https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85638Sun, 24 Mar 2024 21:55:11 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:21:17 GMT]]>@archos running prosody is a big challenge with so many options. Unfortunately, we (cloudron team) has no expertise in this to even package prosody reliably. It's one of the reasons we gave up on jitsi too. It's too complex and not clear what is needed and what is not.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85625https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85625Sun, 24 Mar 2024 16:21:17 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:35:06 GMT]]>Hi, I just want to dust off the XMPP discussion a bit. It's a real shame that there is no XMPP on Cloudron yet. I've been using Snikket for maybe 4 years on another VPS and in all that time there hasn't been a problem. I'm just doing server updates. Snikket is really fast and hassle free for a smaller group. Unfortunately I am not skilled enough to install Snikket on Cloudron. It would be really great if an app could be added to Cloudron.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85618https://forum.cloudron.io/post/85618Sun, 24 Mar 2024 08:35:06 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:16:36 GMT]]>@murgero - sorry, not seeing an option to PM you. Can you give us an update here on how Snikket is working for you? I'm willing to put some money towards making a custom app for this. I think doing Snikket + 2-3 more configuration options will be enough for more self hosters.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/77110https://forum.cloudron.io/post/77110Thu, 09 Nov 2023 20:16:36 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:34:31 GMT]]>@murgero Are there any updates on your app? I would love to use it!

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/52972https://forum.cloudron.io/post/52972Sat, 03 Sep 2022 04:34:31 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:49:16 GMT]]>I have a test server running, it works pretty well given it's an early-release beta. PM me if you want to try it out.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29614https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29614Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:49:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:16:41 GMT]]>@murgero said in Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box:

not sure about iOS

For iOS, the Snikket app is based on Siskin

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29612https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29612Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:16:41 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:11:51 GMT]]>@jdaviescoates Oh that would be cool. Looks like snikket just needs input on domain name and email as a basic starting point - which is nice. Assuming I am following the documentation it supports MUC and http file uploads too and uses the Conversations app on Android (not sure about iOS) and probably even supports push notification too.

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29610https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29610Mon, 12 Apr 2021 15:11:51 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box on Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:45:12 GMT]]>@murgero said in Snikket Server - Your own messaging server in a box:

even based on prosody

It's by the same people too. I think the lead developer of prosody is also the lead developer of Snikket

]]>https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29604https://forum.cloudron.io/post/29604Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:45:12 GMT