From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Matrix+elements is very easy to selfhost in any homelab. works well enough for goverments. Federated and easy end to end encryption. And one can easily set up a web archive bridge forvarchiveable rooms.

    That beeing said i still think IRC is the best for pure text chat.

      • toastal@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        1 month ago

        What do you need screen sharing for? This comes up so, so rarely for me.

        Besides the expensive Matrix option the parent suggested, IRC covers text fine. Mumble handles low-latency, low-resource voice chat with positional audio for games. XMPP uses more resources that IRC (but can have encryption) but a ton less resources than Matrix which makes it suitable for self-hosting—my partner & I do voice/video calls over my home server fine & Movim is working on group calls with a Web UI (tho it should be noted both Zoom & Jitsi use XMPP under the hood).

        • sep@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          30 days ago

          In what way are matrix expencive? You do not have to self host it. You can just make an account on any public matrix server.