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Movim

Social and chat platform built on XMPP

Matrix & XMPP ★ 2.1k stars Medium setup AGPL-3.0

Movim is a federated social networking and instant messaging platform built on the XMPP protocol. It provides a modern web interface for chat, group conversations, and a publish-subscribe news feed.

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Key features

  • XMPP-based federation
  • Modern web chat interface
  • Built-in blogging and news feed
  • OMEMO end-to-end encryption

Pros & cons

Strengths

  • Released under the AGPL-3.0 license
  • First-class Docker support for quick deployment
  • Active community (2.1k GitHub stars)
  • Written in PHP

Trade-offs

  • Requires an XMPP server
  • Smaller ecosystem

Is Movim secure?

No known vulnerabilities affect Movim's latest release (v0.35.1). OSV.dev lists 2 past advisories for the project; none of them applies to this release. No known vulnerabilities is not proof of security: it means none have been publicly catalogued.

  • Most recent fixed advisory CVE-2023-2848, published 2023-09-14 (1126 days ago), fixed in 0.22

Source: OSV.dev, checked 2026-10-14. How this is measured.

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