I'm currently self-hosting a Matrix homeserver! I got a few friends to join me and we use it to chat daily. I can't really speak for its security. Afaik the pr

I'm currently self-hosting a Matrix homeserver! I got a few friends to join me and we use it to chat daily. I can't really speak for its security. Afaik the protocol is almost considered stable, and I trust it for everyday communications — but I wouldn't trust it if dealing with a nation-state level adversary. The only privacy pain point is that if you run a synapse home server (the reference implementation), by default your voice and video chats are routed through Google's servers. You have to run your own TURN server alongside synapse to prevent this. This is fine, but imho it's not well explained on the install guide. Riot is... Okay. It's great ffor power users, but imho is quite obscure for the average chat app user; the ux isn't great yet. Perhaps with the redesign... Lastly, bridges are the biggest reason why I want matrix to succeed... But as of now, none of them are really useful or even usable. They're all in very early stages of development and need contributions.