just asking what is a good one
Fluxer (more like discord) or Matrix
For one to one chats and the occasional group chat? XMPP is pretty awesome and has lots of good clients (Conversations on Android, Monal on iDevices, Dino, Gajim, etc. on Linux)
If you want something closer to Discord and host public communities or very large chatrooms, Matrix is very good. You can self-host it with Continuwuity, and there are lots of clients too (Cinny, FluffyChat, Element, Fractal, NeoChat, etc.)
If you just need voice chat, Mumble is simple and works well.
I second XMPP. Conversations is great and its really easy to host your own prosody server.
You must be the first person I’ve heard that actually selfhosts a delta chat server
Since it is chatmail based, it isn’t hard https://chatmail.at/relays
Pidgin, maybe. I like it.
Edit: Oops, I might have misread/misunderstood what you were asking. If you’re asking about server software, I’d suggest XMPP :)
Though I know Matrix is very popular (as shown by people others suggesting it)
Man, I haven’t used pidgin in almost 20 years. Throwback, or whatever the kids say these days.
Man I remember using Pidgin for ICQ!
I tried a bunch. Right now I’m running Snikket (xmpp) and it’s been very reliable.
simplex
Matrix, and I recommend selfhosting Continuwuity as it is lightweight and easy to spin up. Your other option could be XMPP with Snikket or proper Prosody.
Though do you have any particular features you wanna bring over from Facebook Messenger?
Continuwuity is so easy the setup and maintain. If you want to self host a matrix server, I couldn’t recommend this enough.
Matrix and element clients
Matrix
but what good client that isnt designed for just businesses
Gomuks and Sable
Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and “just works”
services: sable: image: git.sable.moe/sableclient/sable-next:latest ports: - '127.0.0.1:8080:8080' volumes: - ./config.json:/app/config.json:ro restart: unless-stoppedLooks pretty simple to selfhost the web client too
https://github.com/SableClient/sable-next/blob/main/Caddyfile
Edit~~: I couldn’t get it working, moved to selfhosting cinny~~
Edit2: I got it working 🤘
Use this config file as a base https://git.sable.moe/SableClient/sable-next/raw/branch/main/static/config.json
Cinny is an awesome desktop client, as is Element, Fractal (GNOME, no spaces support though) and NeoChat (KDE)
For mobile, I personally prefer FluffyChat, but there’s other options too.
edit: I currently use Sable (a fork of Cinny I think), still using FluffyChat on Android.
Cinny calls an old matrix endpoint that returns 403 I’m surprised more people aren’t getting their home ip fail2banned.
/_matrix/media/v3/configfor those who are interested.It worked for me, so dunno if this is a widespread issue. I now use Sable though since I prefer it over Cinny (it’s a fork with extra bits I think)
I’m using Continuwuity you’re using synapse
ah ok
I think the clients are all better lately. For Android I prefer Schildi Chat Next. For most everything else we use my self hosted Cinny web app. My only iPhone user likes elementX. Fluffy Chat is solid for messaging only, but I did not like that it can’t do the voice and video calls. They may have added that by now, I’m not an expert.
FluffyChat support MatrixRTC now.
