Details on creating an account below.

XMPP (eXtensive Message and Presence Protocol) is a chat service that takes advantage of presence messages (Available, Away, Extended Away, Do Not Disturb, etc) and status messages. XMPP is different from IRC, in the sense the server is hosting the account and processing the messages, as to IRC where the account is hosted on your computer, and you connect to the server for the channels.

If you are curious as to the cXMPP server stats: here they are:

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.looooc;;:ol  :oc;;:ooooo'    OS: Raspbian GNU/Linux 9.8 (stretch) armv6l
 ;oooooo:      ,ooooooc.     Model: Raspberry Pi Model B Rev 2
   .,:;'.       .;:;'.       Kernel: 4.1.19+
   .... ..'''''. ....        Uptime: 19 days, 19 hours, 50 minutes
 .''.   ..'''''.  ..''.      Packages: 1230
 ..  .....    .....  ..      Shell: bash 4.4.12
.  .'''''''  .''''''.  .     CPU: ARMv6-compatible rev 7 (v6l) (1) @ 0.7GHz
.'' .''''''''  .'''''''. ''.   Memory: [-==============] 46MB / 434MB
'''  '''''''    .''''''  '''   CPU Usage: [----===========] 30%
.'    ........... ...    .'.   Disk: 6.8G / 14G (52%) [------------------------------------------------------------------------=========================================================]
....    ''''''''.   .''.     
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        .'''''''             ​
         ......

Creating an account is free and easy.

I recommend Pidgin for any desktop platform (It supports Windows, macOS and Linux Desktop). Any XMPP client will work with cXMPP.

If you're on iOS, i reccomend AstraChat, but don't say i ever said it's the best client.

If you're on Android, i reccoment tigase. It supports account creation as well, so that's good if you don't have a PC and would like to create a cXMPP account without using E-mail.

To create an account, all you need to do is add an account to your clients config, and tell it to make an account with this information. (on pidgin, there is a tick box at the bottom of the account setup window, check that to make an account).

If you'd rather create an account by sending me an E-Mail, send me an email at [email protected] and provide the following information:

-The username for your account

-The password you'd like to use for the account (If you would like to encrypt this password with PGP, my public key can be found here.)