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!
I recently started hosting XMPP with Prosody, and now try to get people besides my family there. Thought of Matrix but it seems to be the same thing but bloated. Most of my groupchat socialization is on IRC (I have a bouncer in the same place), but that’s not with people I know IRL.
I used Mattermost for a community project, but had trouble getting people to install/use/learn yet another client.
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).
I mostly love discord. I wish it could be self hosted with federated identities, though.
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.