Hi :) what do you guys and gals think about using Rocket.Chat self-hosted as a private messenger? Is this a bad idea or would it be ok?
It would be ok, but a bit lonely, no?
Better look into Snikket.
I never heard of Snikket so it should be even more lonely. The best advice I can give is to just use Signal. Imo it’s good enough.
It’s just an easy to setup XMPP server, so you get full federation out of the box.
snikket looks really nice. i tried ejabberd but failed setting it up 🙈🙈🙈 but snikket looks promising.
I ran it for awhile but the upgrades even in docker because unnecessarily difficult and annoying. They often rolled out so many incremental and useless updates instead of one large one every once in awhile. I abandoned it for mattermost.
Well… I started a GitPod instance few minutes ago and… it’s still not up so that’s not a great sign, cf https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat/issues/33537 .
Trying Snikket on my server now. Curious to read about suggestions from others.
Seems Snikket container behind proxy isn’t a properly documented setup despite https://snikket.org/service/help/advanced/reverse_proxy/ so I didn’t manage either.