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big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" (slfh.st)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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[–] 9 points 6 months ago (5 children)

Im confused by this list. It includes the matrix server implementations synapse and continuwuity, but not matrix itself or any of its clients. The only matrix client that could reasonably replace discord is element but its not even there.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago*

    Matrix itself isn't a thing, Matrix is a spec/protocol. Synapse and continuwuity are implementations of the server, with synapse being the "reference implementation." Client apps like Element (the reference client) would be good to have there, but I'm not sure selfh.st will want to list clients because there is quite a few.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Synapse is the backend that you install on the server. Element is the client that connect to your backend. Now Matrix has many backends and many clients. Synapse + Element is probably the best fully-featured combo that we have, but also the most complicated.

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