All your chats in one app - Self-host Matrix with Bridges and Cloudflare
All your chats in one app - Self-host Matrix with Bridges and Cloudflare
Do your chats look like this? Do you always forget which contacts use which apps? Do you wish there was a way to have all your chats in just one place? If you answered yes to any of those question: good news! In the following guide I'm going to show
Do your chats look like this? Do you always forget which contacts use which apps? Do you wish there was a way to have all your chats in just one place?
In the following guide I'm going to show you how to use Matrix to achieve your dream of an all-in-one chat app, by using Matrix bridges and securing the connection with Cloudflare Tunnels.
if you are bad at technology (like me) there's an app called beeper which does this for you. I'm sure it comes with some caveats, though.
19Nice, is it completely FOSS and secure/trustworthy?
3Its not completely FOSS so be careful with what you send. We don't really know what's going on behind the scenes.
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Yes! I mentioned it in the article and they have a self-hosting guide which to be honest, is not about hosting Beeper at all, but it's just a vars.yml template to host some matrix bridges. The template I provide in the article is based off of that.
You can't know what they do with your data, so I decided to self-host this alternative.
3Ferdium does this and it's open-source. It supports Lemmy too. And you can even add your custom website.
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oh hey it's the return of the Trillian / Pidgin app morphology.
14Yes Trillian. I remember that now
7Was born too late to enjoy that experience 😔
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i wait intil matrix gets bathroom wall integration (referencing the main pic, somewhere on the bottom)
6Lmao. Truly broken right now.
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One needs to note that not all matrix bridges offer E2EE options yet. But anw, that shouldn’t deter anyone from testing and using these.
5And now do it without Cloudflare.
4Surely it could be done with tailscale/headscale, or just a VPN connection? Unless I'm misunderstanding how the OP is using cloudflare tunnels
4You could implement plenty of ways to access it, Cloudflare is just one of them. I made this guide to achieve the goal of self-hosting matrix bridges for people who are already familiar with Cloudflare and have a domain behind it, but it's not something that is mandatory to have for a similar setup.
Cloudflare Tunnels are useful to connect to the server without exposing your ssh port to the internet, and Cloudflare Workers to add .well-known files for federation and Sliding Sync proxy if you don't have a way to serve those files easily.
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I wish I could escape it because of privacy concerns, but I'm finding it too convenient to let it go. Would appreciate it if someone could convince me out of it
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