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All your chats in one app - Self-host Matrix with Bridges and Cloudflare (zerodya.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Zerodya@lemm.ee to c/homelab@lemmy.ml
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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.

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[-] Nachorella@lemmy.sdf.org 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

Nice, is it completely FOSS and secure/trustworthy?

[-] kev@lemmy.kevhomeit.trade 4 points 1 year ago

Its not completely FOSS so be careful with what you send. We don't really know what's going on behind the scenes.

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] gasull@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Ferdium does this and it's open-source. It supports Lemmy too. And you can even add your custom website.

[-] Draegur@lemm.ee 14 points 1 year ago

oh hey it's the return of the Trillian / Pidgin app morphology.

[-] warmwhisky@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Yes Trillian. I remember that now

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Was born too late to enjoy that experience 😔

[-] Little8Lost@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

i wait intil matrix gets bathroom wall integration (referencing the main pic, somewhere on the bottom)

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Lmao. Truly broken right now.

[-] inspxtr@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] dataprolet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago

And now do it without Cloudflare.

[-] camr_on@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Surely it could be done with tailscale/headscale, or just a VPN connection? Unless I'm misunderstanding how the OP is using cloudflare tunnels

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You 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.

[-] steeev@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I was wondering if the goal of the article (using bridges) is available without federation and having it open to the internet...

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

You can totally skip federation and you won't be able to use matrix users or join public rooms, but I guess it's something that some people don't need.

[-] Zerodya@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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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