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I've published a new HOWTO on my website:
Enrico already wrote about the Why (and the What, Who and When), so I'll just quote his conclusion and move on to the How.
I now have an XMPP setup which has all the features of the recent fancy chat systems, and on top of that it runs, client and server, on Free Software, which can be audited, it is federated and I can self-host my own server in my own VPS if I want to, with packages supported in Debian.