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There seem to be plentiful options for text chat servers, so I'm curious for those that self-host their own, what their preferences & experiences have been with them.

Also those mentioned in the title were just a few examples, if you run something else, e.g. Revolt or Mattermost or something else less popular, would be interested in reading about it!

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I've been self-hosting Matrix for like 2+ years now. The setup yaml was a lot to get thru in terms of reading what each set of options did. That felt like a lot but the reality was only a few things actually needed to be set and/or changed to make it work the way I wanted. Thankfully Matrix documented all the options out.

Overall, I'm extremely happy with Matrix. It has very much been set it and forget it once it was up. I'm excited to see where Matrix 2.0 goes.

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

The new Element X is really awesome. Since it's now in public beta I'm going to setup dendrite + mautrix-signal/-whatsapp/-discord behind their new matrix 2.0 sliding sync proxy.

The only thing I'm going to have to figure out is whether it's possible to disable image compression for bridges, because the quality was pretty bad the last time I tried (not surprising after being compressed 3 times).

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

I grabbed Element X to try it out but my self host doesn't support sliding sync. There is a sliding sync proxy docker that got put out to help but not sure I want to set that up if it will eventually get added to main. Might have to just wait. 😔

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'll definitely set up the sliding sync proxy for the time being. It's such a big improvement (after the initial sync) that I don't want to wait for native support in conduit. Especially since conduit takes some time to support new features quickly.

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

How long did your initial sync take?

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

I'm not sure since it's been a while since I tried it on my matrix.org account, but I'd say it took about as long as logging in on a new device.

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