Rocket chat is like slack but FOSS.. haven't tried it myself but it could be something
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Not FOSS anymore. More like open core these days.
Not E2EE though, or at least not fully.
I mean if it's just a private server for just the people he knows then I don't get why this would be a concern, but if it is to mitigate family drama then rocket chat definitely has end-to-end encryption https://docs.rocket.chat/use-rocket.chat/workspace-administration/settings/e2e-encryption
Simplex chat would work
However, I wouldn't host on a Raspberry Pi or even at home for that matter. Get a VPS and host it there. Linode even has a one click app install for Simplex Chat
Mattermost runs as a Docker container and is excellent. You can create channels and groups which is incredibly useful.
Is there e2e encryption available for mattermost that normies can use?
Mattermost does not have E2EE to my knowledge.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters | More Letters |
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IP | Internet Protocol |
RPi | Raspberry Pi brand of SBC |
SBC | Single-Board Computer |
SSL | Secure Sockets Layer, for transparent encryption |
TLS | Transport Layer Security, supersedes SSL |
VPS | Virtual Private Server (opposed to shared hosting) |
XMPP | Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol ('Jabber') for open instant messaging |
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XMPP is fantastic IMHO
If you want to support a great project and have great uptime check out conversations.im
I don’t recommend self hosting something you want available all the time. That being said everyone has different needs/uses 😊
Matrix is fine but quite slow. Has excellent clients and is feature rich.
There's also an app called Circles that turns your Matrix chats into a social feed.
XMPP is fine but the available clients are outdated and ugly.
Session is also self-hostable and anonymous.
Matrix is slow on large instances, but that's not the case here, especially if no federation is done.
And the issue with sluggishness is currently the main development focus with ElementX/matrixX that will become mainstream matrix soon. With that even the large instances are extremely fast.