Best FOSS Local Messenger Service?
So I want to setup a messaging server in my home that works like Telegram or Whatsapp - it should use the local network as we plan on moving around a lot of photos and files between our devices for some projects
What should I use? XMPP? Or Matrix? Or is there something else that's ideal for local networks?
Thanks!
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I'm curious to learn of other people's workflows. May I ask why you prefer to send files over messenger instead of using a shared local file storage?
Mostly it's because we're using Telegram for our workflow and everyone is pretty used to it by now (including our parents, who're slow to adapt).
We're gonna be sharing videos, photos, and files on an hourly basis, and not every person is invovled with the every other person's workflow. If it could ideally be a messenger, we would have conversations regarding these files, and the chat history+notifications on new file upload would be pretty nice.
Then it sounds like Matrix is what you want. It can send files just fine and I use it for that all the time.
You may want to set up some kind of cleanup for media storage, as the files would stay on the server even after being sent and received, otherwise, slowly filling it up.
If you have a ton of storage and the files are reasonably small, you might be be fine without that, but look into it, at least.
Matrix doesn't really work without a public domain name and so on. Maybe this will change in the future with their p2p experiments, but right now it is not a good suggestion for a local only solution.