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?

  • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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
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      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.