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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)?

UPDATE: I managed to set up an XMPP server using prosody with the SSL certs. We have been testing it with my friend and it seems to go well.

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[–] callcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Rocket.chat could be an option

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I used this for a while. Notifications were lackluster on Samsung phones.

[–] callcc@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What should notifications be like instead?

[–] transientpunk@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago

Well, Samsung would kill the app when it was in the background, so notifications would only appear when you explicitly opened the app.