I’ve installed it in the last few days. Got the Discord and WhatsApp bridge up and running. About to give the iMessage bridge a go. It’s been fairly smooth sailing so far!
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Is there anywhere I can go to learn about what exactly Matrix is?
It's not exactly easy to find with via search engine thanks to the movie
I was looking at setting up one for the same reason, to have most of not all of my chat apps in the same place but I was only finding docs for the docker-ansible setup which isn't really what I want. Can you share your docker-compose file or the docs you used to get everything setup?
Here is my compose file:
version: '3.3'
services:
app:
image: matrixdotorg/synapse
restart: unless-stopped
ports:
- 8008:8008
volumes:
- ./data:/data
hostname: matrix
mautrix-telegram:
container_name: mautrix-telegram
image: dock.mau.dev/mautrix/telegram
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./mautrix-telegram-data:/data
hostname: mautrix-telegram
mautrix-whatsapp:
container_name: mautrix-whatsapp
image: dock.mau.dev/mautrix/whatsapp
restart: unless-stopped
volumes:
- ./mautrix-whatsapp-data:/data
hostname: mautrix-whatsapp
I have nginx running as a reverse proxy on the host. I haven't gotten the federation to work yet but I think it's an ipv6 issue.
Setting up the bridges was quiet easy using these instructions
Let me know if you have anymore questions. It's running on a small host with 40 docker containers running in parallel and the cpu sits idle at 5% so it's not much of a drain.
Honestly I'd probably host my own Matrix if Conduit wasn't still so behind on stuff. Like, I think they still don't support spaces properly, right?
Even Dendrite feels far too heavy and that's intended to be the "light" option compared to Synapse, which needs an entire server onto itself to have any kind of speed behind it.
Synapse really isn't that bad unless you're joining big rooms. I held off for ages because I thought it was a pig, but I have it running (along with a bunch of other stuff) just fine on a minimal VPS.
For the whatsapp bridge, don't you require a phone on 24/7?
Since Whatsapp added multi-client support this is AFAIK not needed anymore.