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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (11 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XMPP is fine but the available clients are outdated and ugly.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] 0 points 7 months ago (1 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.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Matrix is slow everywhere. Anyone who says otherwise is lying. Element X is also super slow. Waiting 5-10 secs for messages to appear every time I open the app. I know what I'm talking about.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (3 children)

And on which instance did you experience that?

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

Self host beeper... I love matrix but people struggle with maintaining a key and password .. beeper simplifies this and has other chat protocols (bridges) that might entice normies.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago

also: that has a client that works on android tv.

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