So, I was told to not use Signal, so all that is left is Matrix. And I am not techy enough to have my own server and neither are my relatives, so Matrix.org is the only option
So, I was told to not use Signal, so all that is left is Matrix. And I am not techy enough to have my own server and neither are my relatives, so Matrix.org is the only option
Why would Matrix be the only option? XMPP is significantly better. You can either sign up on a public server or pay a small sum to have your own private server for you and your family for example on https://snikket.org/ or I think https://jmp.chat/ also includes optionally a small server in the subscription.
I’ve always been curious with the differences between XMPP and matrix but i can’t ever find anything explaining it. Why is it in your opinion better?
I know I am just a normie who doesn’t really know internal workings of them… But in my experience, XMPP is just easier to host, the servers are lighter, they don’t store everything they touch forever like Matrix does, and OMEMO doesn’t break like Matrix’s encryption. Synapse would be probably impossible to run on my VPS, while Conduit and Dendrite are not as full-featured.