Matrix was worth the effort to self host

&quot;was worth the effort&quot; after three days of use. <i>eyeroll</i>.<p>I&#x27;m a Matrix fan but this post does not really make a ton of sense.

If you want to quickly deploy Matrix (and all the related goodies) on your server,I highly recommend <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spantaleev&#x2F;matrix-docker-ansible-deploy" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;spantaleev&#x2F;matrix-docker-ansible-deploy</a>. It&#x27;s one of the best maintained project I&#x27;ve seen, a pleasure to install, maintain and upgrade.

I&#x27;m thinking of setting up a Matrix instance for my kids and their friends to chat. However, Synapse might be a bit of overkill, I don&#x27;t need (actually want) things like federation. I saw Conduit (conduit.rs) a few months ago, does anyone have experience with using it for a small community?

How difficult is it to write a matrix-bridge?<p>In particular, Upwork&#x27;s chat is complete garbage, but the Upwork message API is only available to enterprise clients.<p>Eric Migicovsky, founder of Beeper, suggested to build off an existing puppeteer bridge, and shared the following links as starting points:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mau.dev&#x2F;tulir&#x2F;mautrix-amp&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mau.dev&#x2F;tulir&#x2F;mautrix-amp&#x2F;</a><p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;src.miscworks.net&#x2F;fair&#x2F;matrix-puppeteer-line&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;src.miscworks.net&#x2F;fair&#x2F;matrix-puppeteer-line&#x2F;</a>

I&#x27;m on the lookout for things to host on my personal server but what is benefit here? Is there some great first hand content available in these Matrix groups?

I self hosted matrix-synapse and riot (now element) for a year or more. The resource utilization of synapse was rough on my cheap vps. Upgrading to dendrite and maintaining state seemed challenging. Eventually the server fell over and I didn’t feel like trying to rebuild everything.<p>I’m all for pluggable SOA architectures at work, but for personal use I’d prefer something turnkey.

It says using ~15GB? already. But doesn&#x27;t say RAM or disk. That seems to matter.

I self host matrix-synapse for a year or something.<p>I tried dentrite and there was still no way to receive notifications on the phone. I don&#x27;t know what&#x27;s the current status but I feel it&#x27;s a show stopper for a lot of people.

Trillian is back?

On that note,is there a not self hosted but reasonably popular chat service that i don&#x27;t know of where i can give people my username a la discord and have them chat with me? I cannot continue to use discord in good conscience