Hi,

Trying to move group chat from telegram to a more private option, but the key feature is its web interface which is so convenient…

I’ve checked SimpleX, Session, Briar & Element-Matrix, but the first 3 do not have a web version and the latest only has a free version for self-hosting and I haven’t looked into self-hosting yet.

I’d completely understand if what I’m looking for doesn’t exist for free, but if anyone has a suggestion here, I’m interested!

Cheers

  • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    I think Element does what you’re looking for. Get yourself a fediverse account, log in and watch it go. Difficulty, as ever, is getting your contacts to switch.

      • Lemongrab@lemmy.one
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        2 days ago

        It is federated, just with other Matrix protocol servers. Just like how email is federated.

        • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          2 days ago

          Being federated isn’t the same as living in the same Fediverse. You can upvote a Lemmy post from Mastodon since they both use ActivityPub but you can’t do that with a Matrix account. There are a couple of different ActivityPub-like generalized protocols out there, but none of them are near the size of ActivityPub & Lemmy is ActivityPub so for all intents & purposes for this conversation the Fediverse here (& most places) is ActivityPub. Matrix is on an entirely different federated network & they aren’t related.

          • Vinny_93@lemmy.world
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            2 days ago

            I think I need to read up on the fediverse a bit more. Technically it looks like anything in the fediverse at the moment is ActivityPub, even though it supports 3 more protocols. At this point, only Hubzilla uses something other than ActivityPub, even though it also makes use of AP. I was confused because Matrix is also an open protocol and also federated. I had figured everything federated could talk to each other underneath… That’d be the dream, right?