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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] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The problem of XMPP is not hosting it, it's the clients. Give me one easy-to-use guide to have

  • e2ee text messaging
  • groups
  • audio/video calling

working equally well on desktop, Android and iOS, and I will gladly drop my matrix server.

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

exactly. in theory XMPP has everything required of a modern chat protocol, in practice however there are a void of clients which support necessary XEPs. there's Conversations on android which is alright and that's about it.

Gajim is a bloatware monster, Dino is alpha-quality, and uhh. I think that's it.