Submitted 16 hours ago by Adniem@thelemmy.club to selfhosted@lemmy.world
just asking what is a good one
Matrix, and I recommend selfhosting Continuwuity as it is lightweight and easy to spin up. Your other option could be XMPP with Snikket or proper Prosody.
Though do you have any particular features you wanna bring over from Facebook Messenger?
Matrix
but what good client that isnt designed for just businesses
scallisto@retrofed.com 1 hour ago 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.
I’d say Element is the one to go for. A list of clients is available here:
matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 13 hours ago simplex
r4mp@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago Matrix and element clients
Are you asking just for general self-hosted messengers? Why did you mention Facebook specifically?
Pidgin, maybe. I like it.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 8 hours ago Man, I haven’t used pidgin in almost 20 years. Throwback, or whatever the kids say these days.
anakin78z@lemmy.world 15 hours ago I tried a bunch. Right now I’m running Snikket (xmpp) and it’s been very reliable.
For one to one chats and the occasional group chat? XMPP is pretty awesome and has lots of good clients (Conversations on Android, Monal on iDevices, Dino, Gajim, etc. on Linux)
If you want something closer to Discord and host public communities or very large chatrooms, Matrix is very good. You can self-host it with Continuwuity, and there are lots of clients too (Cinny, FluffyChat, Element, Fractal, NeoChat, etc.)
If you just need voice chat, Mumble is simple and works well.