My friends and I all selfhost own matrix homeservers and we use it to chat. It works reasonably well, but stil the administrative work required should not be un

My friends and I all selfhost own matrix homeservers and we use it to chat. It works reasonably well, but stil the administrative work required should not be underestimated, comparable to selfhosting e-mail. Regarding features, matrix is promising and definitly innovative, but espacially the mobile apps don't have the same level of usability like WhatsApp or novel features like Telegram. Techsavvy friends can definitly use it, but you don't want to become a managed service provider for your broader family. I use this ansible playbook to provision my server and related services (monitoring, bridges, ...) [0]. The bridges espacially make it fun to play around with. [0] https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy