I want to selfhost a messaging service for my family. It should be secure and have voice calling option, ideally. Thank you.

  • Elkan Nixed
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    131 year ago

    I’m on Signal (obviously not self hosted) and even if I really wanted to move to another platform be it self hosted or yet another privacy focussed one, I can’t ask my friends and family to move to another platform again. I already asked them to move away from WhatsApp, can’t do it again…

    • @[email protected]
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      51 year ago

      💯 this. It took me several years to get most of my friends, co-workers and family to Signal…

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I got my family onto Signal last winter and it works great for us. And half of them aren’t even very techy. But the interface is a lot like SMS so it was an easy transition for them

    • Overzeetop
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      11 year ago

      I feel you. My problems with Signal forced me back to iMessage (actually forced me off of android and back to iOS).

      I’d never considered Self-hosted messaging. It might be fun to play around with, but I can’t handle the stress of ensuring six 9s uptime for family comms.

    • @[email protected]
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      -21 year ago

      This is what I told most of my friend when they asked me to move to signal. Is is going to be a very shitty company managed by a shitty egocentric person and you are going to regret. But you will make people move and they won’t do it again and won’t understand the reasons