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I want to selfhost a messaging service for my family. It should be secure and have voice calling option, ideally. Thank you.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Don't listen to all the Matrix fanboys here πŸ˜… It's no fun having to manage the massive server application and the mobile apps pretty much suck.

I would go for https://snikket.org/ which is a lightweight all in one solution based on XMPP specifically designed for what you want.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Massive server application? Running on a PI 3? If you don't want to federate with massive servers it's super lightweight!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"for instance Synapse uses 5-10x less RAM than it used to (my personal federated server is only using 145MB of RAM atm! " https://matrix.org/blog/2022/08/15/the-matrix-summer-special-2022/#making-it-fast

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I run synapse myself, so yes I am aware that it got more lightweight. But it very much depends on your usage pattern and XMPP is still easily 10x less resource heavy.