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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago (2 children)

use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn't find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

all messages. and it works really well!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Not everyone has the possibility to self-host

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 days ago

you can join public instances, and maybe even make them set it up for you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you're paying for?

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

It's a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It's when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it's more like 3-4€.