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what is a good self hostable alternative to facebook messenger (self.selfhosted)

submitted 3 days ago by Adniem to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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just asking what is a good one

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[–] Adniem [S] 4 points 3 days ago (8 children)

but what good client that isnt designed for just businesses

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[–] anamethatisnt@sopuli.xyz 13 points 3 days ago

I'd say Element is the one to go for. A list of clients is available here:
https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

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[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and "just works"

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[–] UiUiUiUiUi@piefed.nl 1 point 1 hour ago* (last edited 15 minutes ago)

services:
  sable:
    image: git.sable.moe/sableclient/sable-next:latest
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:8080:8080'
    volumes:
      - ./config.json:/app/config.json:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

Looks pretty simple to selfhost the web client too

https://github.com/SableClient/sable-next/blob/main/Caddyfile

Edit: I couldn’t get it working, moved to selfhosting cinny

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[–] ThreeKnew@lemdro.id 2 points 18 hours ago

Cinny is also still a very good option! Especially if non-techy people are gonna be using it, as its UI is more stable (as in, changes less)

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[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 point 3 days ago

Seconding Sable.

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[–] scallisto@retrofed.com 4 points 3 days ago

Cinny is an awesome desktop client, as is Element, Fractal (GNOME, no spaces support though) and NeoChat (KDE)

For mobile, I personally prefer FluffyChat, but there's other options too.

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[–] ArborNode@lemmy.shutes.org 2 points 2 days ago

I think the clients are all better lately. For Android I prefer Schildi Chat Next. For most everything else we use my self hosted Cinny web app. My only iPhone user likes elementX. Fluffy Chat is solid for messaging only, but I did not like that it can't do the voice and video calls. They may have added that by now, I'm not an expert.

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[–] stratself@lemdro.id 2 points 3 days ago

Gomuks and Sable

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