• Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
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    1 year ago

    Honestly when I used Signal it felt like a middle compromise between not using Whatsapp without ditching a lot of people. Nowadays I don’t have the patience for that. I just keep minimal usage of Whatsapp for some family and friends and moved to my own Matrix instance. You even have bridges so convenience is great.

    Also I remember Moxie being totally against the redistribution of Signal outside their own channels (no Fdroid) and refusing some improvements for battery life where your phone didn’t have GSF for notifications.

    • arctic pie (he/him)@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      Do you mind if I ask how you set up your own matrix instance? What software did you use? Are you hosted in the cloud or a home lab type setup? Sorry for so many questions but I’ve been wanting to do this for a while now

      • worfamerryman@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        I followed an old and possibly outdated video guide.

        I don’t very limited Holman stuff, but I was able to buy my first domain, vps, and host this all for the first time in about a solid day of work.

        I’m guessing if I had to redo it I could possibly do it a bit faster.

        Sorry in advance I don’t have a link to the video, but it was done by the guy who is the main guy behind it or the main guy behind element.

      • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
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        1 year ago

        I would also recommend the Matrix-Docker-Ansible-Deploy playbook for setting up a Matrix server. It supports Synapse (the “mainline” server implementation), Conduit, and Dendrite as the actual homeserver backend.

        It does take a while to go through the sheer number of options they have available, but it makes it incredibly easy to spin up a Matrix server, as well as update one. I haven’t setup any bridges with it, but its nice to know that it also supports a great deal of them, and can just be toggled on through the playbook settings.

        The documentation is also fantastic, and there’s a massive community in case you run into any trouble with it.

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      1 year ago

      Have you considered using a relay for whatsapp? I like that I have all my accounts in one app now.

      • Eskuero@lemmy.fromshado.ws
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        Yeah I have used mautrix-whatsapp for a long time. In fact I used to push updates for the alpine package.

        But recently I ditched some stuff on my VPS to free resources for other services and that bridge was sacrificed haha