Please let us know how that goes! And in case you want the “phone number based” onboarding experience of Signal & al. on XMPP, you can recommend https://quicksy.im (I personally find it a terrible and short slighted idea to irrevocably associate one’s online identity and presence to a phone number, but at least the option is there!)
I’ve been the phone number route, so now it time to try the right way. If I can get my son on board, my wife will follow and that’s all who’s left on Signal anyway.
Thanks. I’m working on a requirements document to help me figure out exactly what I want to do and how to accomplish that.
What I’ve got so far is leading me in the self-hosting direction. Scale is certainly part of it, but it seems likely that the best way for me to get more people on board is to set up a family server. That way it’s not so much about “here’s a new way to communicate” but “here’s a small, private space to plan family reunions and keep everyone up-to-date on family events.”
Also, I have some other projects that I’ve been putting off because of the need to figure out self-hosting. Running something for the extended family might be the push I need :)
Snikket looks like it checks off a few boxes. It looks pretty simple. It uses Docker (not that I care, exactly, but it seems that Docker is something I will have to come to terms with in general for other things on my self-hosting roadmap). The Android app is available through F-Droid, something that only I care about, but I do care about that.
So, finish fixing the snowblower (today, I hope), figure out how to get my OCI server running properly, then work on snikket. Maybe this time next week? 🤞
Oh, I forgot about that! I had better luck getting people on to Signal, so that’s what I settled on. I’ll take a look again.
Thanks!
Please let us know how that goes! And in case you want the “phone number based” onboarding experience of Signal & al. on XMPP, you can recommend https://quicksy.im (I personally find it a terrible and short slighted idea to irrevocably associate one’s online identity and presence to a phone number, but at least the option is there!)
I will!
I’ve been the phone number route, so now it time to try the right way. If I can get my son on board, my wife will follow and that’s all who’s left on Signal anyway.
At that scale, you could even consider self-hosting so your data never escapes your “digital home”, and look into https://snikket.org/
Edit: snikket is a packaged version of XMPP based around prosody on the server
Thanks. I’m working on a requirements document to help me figure out exactly what I want to do and how to accomplish that.
What I’ve got so far is leading me in the self-hosting direction. Scale is certainly part of it, but it seems likely that the best way for me to get more people on board is to set up a family server. That way it’s not so much about “here’s a new way to communicate” but “here’s a small, private space to plan family reunions and keep everyone up-to-date on family events.”
Also, I have some other projects that I’ve been putting off because of the need to figure out self-hosting. Running something for the extended family might be the push I need :)
Snikket looks like it checks off a few boxes. It looks pretty simple. It uses Docker (not that I care, exactly, but it seems that Docker is something I will have to come to terms with in general for other things on my self-hosting roadmap). The Android app is available through F-Droid, something that only I care about, but I do care about that.
So, finish fixing the snowblower (today, I hope), figure out how to get my OCI server running properly, then work on snikket. Maybe this time next week? 🤞