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A walk through of installing Synapse+Riot+Jitsi from scratch on Debian

Matrixdotorg · 61.2K views · 2020-04-07 · 24:09

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A walkthrough of installing Synapse, Riot and Jitsi from scratch on Debian to run your own Matrix communication service. The description warns it is now quite outdated and links to updated material.

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Recommended as a practical demonstration that self-hosting a Matrix server is fairly easy, even on a small droplet.

Recommended by 3 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2020–2023

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schoolornot · 2021-06 · Recommendation

Matrix servers are now fairly simple to deploy. [VIDEO] I do wish the Element team moved a bit quicker at attacking Slack head-on. Element isn't super polished yet nor does it implement all the features built into the server/spec. So there is some catching up to do there. But the project is more than ready to use today at a large org and it includes a ton more features than what you get out of the box with an off the shelf XMPPd. [LINK]

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schoolornot · 2021-03 · Recommendation

Was your experience with Matrix bad because of the server setup or the Element client app? If server, I found this video to be super helpful: [VIDEO]

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kitkat_new · 2021-01 · Recommendation

Actually setting up a server is not difficult. Check out [VIDEO] for setting one up with video conferencing. Finding a server is not difficult - in the worst case you take the default server. And given the server is not locked down, you have access to all other servers (and their users) as well. So I don't really get where you are going with this.

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