Greetings Programs!
We’ve been trying to find a way to drive XMPP adoption a bit more, so we decided to spin up a limited access public XMPP server for interacting with the Pidgin community.
Unfortunately, this service will not allow you to reach the greater XMPP network as we’re not trying to run a hosted chat network as we frankly just do not have the time and resources to do that.
You can find more information about this service at PidginChat.