After the arrest of Pavel Durov, I wanted to move from Telegram to something end-to-end encrypted. I know Signal is pretty good, but I think it is better to have our messages in my own server.
I have already looked in XMPP, but it required SSL certs and I did not have the mood to configure them.
Do you know any other selfhosted messaging service for a group of 4-5 friends, or an easy way to configure an XMPP server? Or shall I use Signal after all (I don’t really care that much about being selfhosted, I just thought it would be more privacy friendly)?
Simplex is an option, you can host your own servers and it has crossplatform GUI + CLI
I think it’s pretty cool, and it’s pretty easy to set up (there are a lot of options you may wanna look at though)
https://simplex.chat/
https://github.com/simplex-chat/simplex-chat
It’s hell on ram for Android, unfortunately.
Still, looks very promising