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Anyone know of a FOSS type kids messenger? (lemmy.today)
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/63107763

I'm looking for something like Snikket or Prosody, but kids-oriented. I DON'T want my <10 daughter using Meta Messenger Kids! I'll tell my friends to setup for their kids, too. I'd have no access to anything, so it's secure (mom and dad not snooping per se), but the downside is minimal parental controls. Though, no one to really add either.

I'll host or pay for it, IDC. It doesn't seem like there is much out there either.

JusTalk seemed nice when I found out but apparently China owned and so no more secure. I/we need better options!

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[–] 12 points 1 day ago (12 children)

Setup a private matrix instance

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  • [–] 6 points 23 hours ago

    I would love to see the success rate of getting the parents of the child's friend to set up a matrix client for their child's one friend that doesn't use anything they do.

    Help your child embrace not needing to be constantly in communication with her friends, to (gasp) use the phone .... or accept and monitor the evil empires' offerings but no matter what you do, don't for one second think you'll get a single family to set up a matrix client for "that one kid".

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  • [–] 4 points 23 hours ago (4 children)

    How would you compare setting up your own Matrix server vs an XMPP server?

    I was going to recommend XMPP to OP, and I don't have any experience with setting up Matrix.

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  • [–] 2 points 15 hours ago

    Selfhosting both. Continuwuity is more straightforward to set up than ejabberd, mostly because of easier docs, less ports, and less subdomains required. It also comes with most things you need rather than a bunch of toggled-on modules, and I'd say Matrix being HTTP makes it more "conventional" for beginners.

    XMPP is significantly more lightweight though, being a message passing protocol rather than state syncing.

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