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I am searching for a selfhosted and secure (end to end encryption) chat platform for my family (5-20 users), possibly one i can host on a raspi.

Is matrix a good choice, or should i try something else?

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[–] possiblylinux127 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Simplex chat would work

However, I wouldn't host on a Raspberry Pi or even at home for that matter. Get a VPS and host it there. Linode even has a one click app install for Simplex Chat

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

The other suggestions are probably better, but you can technically self-host Wire (from Wire Gmbh) but I've never done it successfully.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Mattermost runs as a Docker container and is excellent. You can create channels and groups which is incredibly useful.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Is there e2e encryption available for mattermost that normies can use?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Mattermost does not have E2EE to my knowledge.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:

Fewer Letters More Letters
IP Internet Protocol
RPi Raspberry Pi brand of SBC
SBC Single-Board Computer
SSL Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption
TLS Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL
VPS Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting)
XMPP Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging

5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

XMPP is fantastic IMHO

If you want to support a great project and have great uptime check out conversations.im

I don’t recommend self hosting something you want available all the time. That being said everyone has different needs/uses 😊

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Matrix is fine but quite slow. Has excellent clients and is feature rich.

There's also an app called Circles that turns your Matrix chats into a social feed.

XMPP is fine but the available clients are outdated and ugly.

Session is also self-hostable and anonymous.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (9 children)

Not true about xmpp in general. There are modern clients out there.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Matrix is slow on large instances, but that's not the case here, especially if no federation is done.

And the issue with sluggishness is currently the main development focus with ElementX/matrixX that will become mainstream matrix soon. With that even the large instances are extremely fast.

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