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big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" (slfh.st)
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[–] 6 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

I quite like Nextcloud with Talk (spreed), but it's a whole cloud suite. Nextcloud is E2EE, and NC Talk does text, voice, and video. The phone apps are nice too. The only problem is connecting more than 2-3 people in a voice/video call can be a bit much, so they recommend a high-performance backend (either a paid service, or annoying to set up yourself). It might be overkill if you don't also use Nextcloud's other applications, but I use a lot of them extensively, especially when feeding CalDav calendars etc into Home Assistant. Friends making an account on your nextcloud is pretty trivial, even for people who aren't technical. I use the VM hooked to dedyn io for outside access, and it was all very easy to set up. I've had it running for about 6 years now, and only had a problem updating for a while, but it was resolved by the community forums.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    This is so great to hear. I’m already using Nextcloud with several of its apps including Talk (what’s with the spreed nomenclature anyway?)

    I thought using Talk for this effort was just quick and dirty until I figure out Matrix, but you’ve helped reassure me it’s legit.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    If you use the AIO it comes with the high performance backend already set up afaik.

    I run nextcloud using the official release without the docket AIO image, but you can just run the high performance backend from docker. This is what I do on my nextcloud server. https://arnowelzel.de/en/nextcloud-talk-high-performance-backend-with-docker

    It's pretty straightforward, just run docker container, if you use a reverse proxy much sure the signaling server is properly configured on the reverse proxy and then modify the next cloud settings to point to the self hosted HPB.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    Thanks, that's good to know. I set up the hanssonit vm - it was very easy to start off with, but it does things differently to the AIO. The AIO didn't exist when I started out, but I'll look into migrating at some point. It's a fairly large install, so slightly fretful.

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