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title: The future of jabber.ccc.de
date: 2015-09-30 15:07:00
updated: 2015-09-30 16:30:26
author: 46halbe
tags: update, pressemitteilung
Tomorrow jabber.ccc.de will continue its service and be run by a new team of admins from now on.
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jabber.ccc.de will stay available for everyone in the future. The
current team of admins will turn its attention towards new projects,
though. The members of the CCC as well as many users can be thankful for
a decade of voluntary dedication.
With the chat protocol XMPP commonly known as Jabber decentralized
setups can be created, which are much more resistant to failure than
centralized systems. The CCC team of admins ran such a server for the
past several years at jabber.ccc.de. Unfortunately, this server was so
well received it became the de facto central service of the hacker
crowd. This is running contrary to the idea we always advocated:
Practice decentralization and run many interconnected servers. We
therefore wish to combine this announcement of the continuation of
jabber.ccc.de with a strong appeal again to run your own jabber servers!
When our team of admins started to run jabber.ccc.de ten years ago,
jabber was rather unknown and running a server required a lot of
knowledge, experience and sometimes some luck and patience. Meanwhile
plenty of easy to set-up and maintain server implementations exist, and
there is no excuse left not to get active yourself.
A new team of volunteer admins has formed within the CCC. The
jabber.ccc.de service will therefore be continued. We nonetheless
recommend all users to set up their own, decentralized servers or to
obtain accounts on different servers.
For updates follow [\@jabbercccde](https://twitter.com/jabbercccde) on
twitter. The new team will publish detailed information about the new
terms and conditions of jabber.ccc.de shortly.
The temporary discontinuation of the service became necessary since some
users have incorrect assumptions about its nature. jabber.ccc.de is a
piece of infrastructure that is run by volunteers in their spare time.
To use it is a privilege and not a right. To prevent incidents that
might trigger another service discontinuation, new rules for the usage
of jabber.ccc.de will be introduced and published soon.
Many thanks to the current team of admins for ten years of reliable
work!
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