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what is a good self hostable alternative to facebook messenger (thelemmy.club)
submitted 1 week ago by to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
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just asking what is a good one

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[–] [S] 4 points 1 week ago (14 children)

but what good client that isnt designed for just businesses

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  • [–] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Personally I like Sable, it feels closer to Discord, has call support, and "just works"

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 4 days ago) 
    services:
  sable:
    image: git.sable.moe/sableclient/sable-next:latest
    ports:
      - '127.0.0.1:8080:8080'
    volumes:
      - ./config.json:/app/config.json:ro
    restart: unless-stopped

    Looks pretty simple to selfhost the web client too

    https://github.com/SableClient/sable-next/blob/main/Caddyfile

    Edit~~: I couldn’t get it working, moved to selfhosting cinny~~

    Edit2: I got it working 🤘

    Use this config file as a base https://git.sable.moe/SableClient/sable-next/raw/branch/main/static/config.json

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    I think the clients are all better lately. For Android I prefer Schildi Chat Next. For most everything else we use my self hosted Cinny web app. My only iPhone user likes elementX. Fluffy Chat is solid for messaging only, but I did not like that it can't do the voice and video calls. They may have added that by now, I'm not an expert.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

    Cinny is an awesome desktop client, as is Element, Fractal (GNOME, no spaces support though) and NeoChat (KDE)

    For mobile, I personally prefer FluffyChat, but there's other options too.

    edit: I currently use Sable (a fork of Cinny I think), still using FluffyChat on Android.

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  • [–] 1 point 4 days ago* (3 children)

    Cinny calls an old matrix endpoint that returns 403 I’m surprised more people aren’t getting their home ip fail2banned.

    /_matrix/media/v3/config for those who are interested.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago (2 children)

    It worked for me, so dunno if this is a widespread issue. I now use Sable though since I prefer it over Cinny (it's a fork with extra bits I think)

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