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After the arrest of Pavel Durov, I wanted to move from Telegram to something end-to-end encrypted. I know Signal is pretty good, but I think it is better to have our messages in my own server.

I have already looked in XMPP, but it required SSL certs and I did not have the mood to configure them.

Do you know any other selfhosted messaging service for a group of 4-5 friends, or an easy way to configure an XMPP server? Or shall I use Signal after all (I don't really care that much about being selfhosted, I just thought it would be more privacy friendly)?

UPDATE: I managed to set up an XMPP server using prosody with the SSL certs. We have been testing it with my friend and it seems to go well.

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[-] Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI

I think it's pretty cool, and it's pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)

https://simplex.chat/

https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

It's hell on ram for Android, unfortunately.

Still, looks very promising

[-] Negligent_Embassy@links.hackliberty.org 2 points 2 years ago

ya the desktop gui is pretty ram hungry as well. It's not perfect but weighing the pros and cons of all available options I have come to like and appreciate simplex quite a bit. The client has also gotten a lot better recently.

The main downside on android for me is the battery drain but I think that is a consequence of me not using google push notifications

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