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?

  • Lemmchen@feddit.deEnglish
    131·
    5 months ago

    XMPP only does it with certain client extensions. And Matrix only does it when the rooms are set up this way. SimpleX does what you want, but is kind of unintuitive for the average user.
    I say go with Signal, it does what you want and is idiot-proof.

    • philpo@feddit.deEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      It is literally one setting in Matrix to force all rooms to only do encrypted messages.

      Signal is pretty unintuitive when it comes to multiple devices per user, device transfers after a device has been lost,etc.

      • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        5 months ago

        Signal is perfectly good under normal usage. Everything is unintuitive when it comes to extremes like losing your device.

        • philpo@feddit.deEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Wouldn’t say that. With most Matrix Clients, WhatsApp, etc. it’s far easier. Especially from a perspective of a elderly,less tech adept user.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          Signal is annoying to use if you don’t have a smartphone you can trust, since they do not allow registration from desktop. So either an Android VM or Signal-cli. But maybe it was just a one-off bug that the desktop client didn’t bind to signal-cli for me. Still, the fact that you need an unofficial command-line application just to register makes it not exactly user-friendly.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      5 months ago

      To be fair, pretty much all major XMPP clients have adopted OMEMO encryption, so doesn’t seem like much of an issue.