greensky@sh.itjust.works to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhat is the best selfhostable messaging service for family?message-squaremessage-square57fedilinkarrow-up129arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up129arrow-down1message-squareWhat is the best selfhostable messaging service for family?greensky@sh.itjust.works to Selfhosted@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square57fedilinkfile-text
I want to selfhost a messaging service for my family. It should be secure and have voice calling option, ideally. Thank you.
minus-squarepoVoqAlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·edit-21 year agoDon’t listen to all the Matrix fanboys here 😅 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.
minus-squarewounn@lemmy.ptlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year agoMassive server application? Running on a PI 3? If you don’t want to federate with massive servers it’s super lightweight!
minus-squareptman@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year ago"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
minus-squarepoVoqAlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 year agoI 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.
Don’t listen to all the Matrix fanboys here 😅 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.
Massive server application? Running on a PI 3? If you don’t want to federate with massive servers it’s super lightweight!
"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
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.