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?

  • 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.