I am searching for a selfhosted and secure (end to end encryption) chat platform for my family (5-20 users), possibly one i can host on a raspi.

Is matrix a good choice, or should i try something else?

  • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    6 months ago

    Signal is perfectly good under normal usage. Everything is unintuitive when it comes to extremes like losing your device.

    • philpo@feddit.deEnglish
      2·
      6 months ago

      Wouldn’t say that. With most Matrix Clients, WhatsApp, etc. it’s far easier. Especially from a perspective of a elderly,less tech adept user.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      6 months ago

      Signal is annoying to use if you don’t have a smartphone you can trust, since they do not allow registration from desktop. So either an Android VM or Signal-cli. But maybe it was just a one-off bug that the desktop client didn’t bind to signal-cli for me. Still, the fact that you need an unofficial command-line application just to register makes it not exactly user-friendly.

      • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        6 months ago

        I imagine that most people’s families will find Singal easier than using a CLI program anyway. It’s rare to find an entire family without typical cellphones.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
          23·
          6 months ago

          Yea, but a typical cellphone is not as easy to make private as a typical laptop or desktop. Lineage has some tradeoffs and not accessible on all devices, and Graphene needs even more specific, quite expensive hardware!

          • essteeyou@lemmy.worldEnglish
            21·
            6 months ago

            Good luck getting grandma to install and use Graphene or Lineage on their 3 year old underpowered Samsung device that already works the way they know.

            I think you’re making problems where there aren’t any. A device PIN or fingerprint along with Signal is probably way more secure than any family chat needs to be.

            • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
              3·
              6 months ago

              I meant telemetry to Google and/or manufacturer. With grandma, I can at least install Linux on her laptop and say to message me there (that’s pretty much what I did with mom).