# lonewolf-im/lonewolf

> Lonewolf is a self-hosted XMPP server written in Rust with embedded storage, designed for easy setup and low resource usage. It supports federation, multi-device chat, and standard XMPP features.

- Magnitude: 5.6 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 87 total · +17 stars measured 2026-11-14, 00:04–11:13 UTC, ≈ 46 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Productivity & self-hosted · Language: Rust · License: Apache-2.0 · Created: 2026-09-17 · Last push: 2026-11-13
- GitHub: https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/lonewolf-im/lonewolf

## Useful for

- Host a private XMPP server for your domain with TLS and account management.
- Test XMPP client compatibility against a standards-compliant server.
- Run a lightweight chat server for a small team without external databases.

## How to get started

```sh
git clone --branch v0.3.0 https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf.git
cd lonewolf
cargo build --release --locked -p lonewolf -p lonewolfctl
```

Copied as is from the “quick start” section of the README. GitNova has not run these commands: check them in the original before running: https://github.com/lonewolf-im/lonewolf#readme

## Why it’s here

- Star-counter measurements on 2026-11-14 (UTC), 00:04–11:13: 70 → 87 stars (+17). This is the change over that interval.
- Estimated end-of-day forecast: about +46 stars, using observed gains and the previous day.
- Before this, the repository barely got any stars — about 0 per day.
- The repository is 58 days old and already has 87 stars.
- Hacker News: “Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust” — 142 points, 20 h ago.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @millette (310 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 1
- Issues and pull requests: 775
- Watchers: 0
- Average over the last week: 17 per day
- Usual pace: 0 per day
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 3
- Latest release: v0.3.0 (2026-11-13)

## Stars per day, last 30 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-10-16 … 2026-11-14: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 2, 2, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 71, 17

## Magnitude by day, last 2 days

11-13 4.1, 11-14 5.8

## Hacker News

- Lonewolf 0.3 – A standalone XMPP server written in Rust — 142 points, 45 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50484007

## Spotted in now

- Spotted on Hacker News

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-11-14 11:22 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.