Services:Chat
Kosmos Chat is a service for chat and instant messaging, and experimental support for voice and video in some apps. The service is separate from the chat apps you can use with your account.
With a Kosmos Chat account, in the form of username@kosmos.org, you can chat with people on thousands of different servers.
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Apps
The service is based on XMPP (also called Jabber when used for chat), meaning that most chat/messaging apps which support XMPP/Jabber will work with your account. Here are a few apps that we can recommend:
Android
Conversations is a fantastic app, and currently the gold standard for XMPP chat on smartphones. It is easy to use, and supports modern end-to-end encryption between all your devices via OMEMO.
Buy it on Google Play (supports development of this open-source app), or install it from F-Droid and consider a donation instead.
How to connect
Usually, you only need your user address and password to configure your chat application.
Your user address is your-username@kosmos.org.
Details
For advanced users and/or troubleshooting:
- Server/host
- xmpp.kosmos.org
- C2S port
- 5222 (StartTLS), 5223 (TLS)
- S2S port
- 5269
- Bosh URL
- xmpp.kosmos.org:5443/bosh
- In-band Registration
- Closed
Multi-user Chat (MUC)
The server is host to a variety of chat rooms. The server's MUC domain is kosmos.chat. Thus, room addresses look like chatroom-name@kosmos.chat. Only local users (with a kosmos.org address) are currently allowed to create chat rooms on kosmos.chat.
Come talk to us in kosmos@kosmos.chat!
You can connect to the XMPP service directly from the Tor network. The configuration is the same as for clearnet, except for the server to connect to:
- Server/host
- ht6eqe754p3m2gif.onion
