@raphael sure, but do you want file attachments to work? Now you need a webserver setup too.

I'd say MongooseIM is better experience than ejabberd, though.

Oh what's that, you want push notifications for apps? Not happening.* So everyone gets a terrible UX.


* this is solvable though. You can do like DeltaChat and have the self-hosted servers push their notifications to a server owned by the team who made the app and they can forward them through APNS/FCM. But nobody in the XMPP world is doing this.