Comment on Anyone know of a FOSS type kids messenger?

CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Mayrix is awfully rough around the edges

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• ch00f@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Second this. My friend group has been using my Matrix server for years.

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• schwim@piefed.zip ⁨12⁩ ⁨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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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  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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  • stratself@lemdro.id ⁨5⁩ ⁨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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  • Colloidal@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    AFAIK, xmpp is easier to maintain and requires less resources.

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  • CMDR_Horn@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I have no skin in either game, so I couldn’t give you an honest answer here. I only suggested matrix because I believe it would fit the scenario

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    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Bummer.

      Oh well

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• unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Anyone ever use FluffyChat? That seems based on Matrix and cute like it’d be kid friendly. I’ll look more into matrix in general! TY

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  • Blaze@piefed.zip ⁨25⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    I use Fluffychat, it’s a nice app

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• semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Hell even the default one is better than everything else out there besides signal and xmpp

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