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What's your preference for a text chat server (e.g. IRC/XMPP/Matrix/Zulip/etc.)? (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Place where you have most of your friends…

Used to xmpp, but it died naturally over the time and someday I just stopped my prosody server. Nowadays - a bit of IRC (few friends still are there) and discord (not selfhosted, but from all the alternatives… feels best).

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    XMPP didn’t really die a natural death, it was kind of murdered. It’s still around though, and works great, but of course the problem is as you mentioned — your friends probably aren’t using it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    I mostly love discord. I wish it could be self hosted with federated identities, though.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Have you tried Revolt.chat?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but the app only works with their hosted version, and I assume the selfhosted version doesn't let you join different instances with the same account, right?

    Basically, there's no point in going to something I won't be able to convince my friends to be on.

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