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[-] DudeImMacGyver@sh.itjust.works 116 points 10 months ago

Does all that and still used WhatsApp lol

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 68 points 10 months ago

I still haven't found a way to make my parents use Signal, so either I stop communicating with them (which is tempting sometimes) or have this compromise

[-] teije9 25 points 10 months ago

use matrix with the whatsapp bridge

[-] pH3ra@lemmy.ml 9 points 10 months ago

Not everyone has the possibility to self-host

[-] teije9 11 points 10 months ago

you can join public instances, and maybe even make them set it up for you.

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 10 months ago

While you are technically correct, most people vastly overestimate the cost of self hosting a (matrix) server. Mine costs like 5€ a month with domain and we use it as a group of 5 people.

[-] psmgx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Late to the party. So like this sever is just a VM or container in the cloud you're paying for?

[-] Black616Angel@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 10 months ago

It's a virtual server, so not really a hardware server, but no container either. It's when multiple servers share RAM, CPU and other things on a big cluster, but each behaves like a normal server. The 5€ in this case even includes the domain. So it's more like 3-4€.

[-] RogueBanana@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

Can you get that to work with all messages or only a few groups you have to setup manually? Was looking into it before I started self hosting but didn't find it desirable at that time and just resorted to do what anon did.

[-] teije9 4 points 10 months ago

all messages. and it works really well!

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