Some news for XMPP: support MUC and anonymous login
Written by Simone
More news on the previously announced bridge for support MUC: we got another bridge set up. This time around, IRC joins the ballet, so matterbridge is now bridging @wpn support MUC for 3 different protocols.. XMPP and MATRIX being the previous other two.
https://health.woodpeckersnest.space/
On this matter I was thinking about making a "tombstone" of the current XMPP MUC, which is called status and move to wpn - In fact that's the name of the MATRIX and IRC rooms. This is not really something I want to do soon, though, because it implies changing several things.
Last, but not least, I have also set up an anonymous VirtualHost in Prosody. You can now login to anon.woodpeckersnest.space with a disposable account (whose data gets deleted from the server as soon as the account is not connected anymore) and participate/discuss in @wpn MUCs - access to external servers is not permitted to anonymous users, for obvious security concerne.
You can follow the steps in this GIF to connect anonymously with Gajim; Dino should also support it but I don't know how it's done.. Finally if you want to join via Android, these are the instructions provided by Daniel Gultsch, from Conversations IM:
you can just add the account something@anon.woodpeckersnest.space with an empty password to #Conversations_im and it will login anonymously. Anonymous logins don't require registration. When I say 'something@anon...' you can use anything as that username. Doesn't matter (it's only used to get through the client side jid validation check)
TIP: If the server tells you can't join a MUC, make sure you have added a nickname in your profile's details (Android).