I just set it up today. The docker setup was pretty easy and I got the telegram and WhatsApp bridge running so I have all my messages in one place. Signal bridge is next.

Is anyone else doing this?

  • JackLSauce@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    Is there anywhere I can go to learn about what exactly Matrix is?

    It’s not exactly easy to find with via search engine thanks to the movie

  • aefinity@theculture.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’ve installed it in the last few days. Got the Discord and WhatsApp bridge up and running. About to give the iMessage bridge a go. It’s been fairly smooth sailing so far!

  • Awwab@kbin.social
    1·
    1 year ago

    I was looking at setting up one for the same reason, to have most of not all of my chat apps in the same place but I was only finding docs for the docker-ansible setup which isn’t really what I want. Can you share your docker-compose file or the docs you used to get everything setup?

    • flauschke@feddit.deOP
      1·
      1 year ago

      Here is my compose file:

      version: '3.3'

services:
  app:
    image: matrixdotorg/synapse
    restart: unless-stopped
    ports:
      - 8008:8008
    volumes:
      - ./data:/data
    hostname: matrix

  mautrix-telegram:
    container_name: mautrix-telegram
    image: dock.mau.dev/mautrix/telegram
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./mautrix-telegram-data:/data
    hostname: mautrix

  mautrix-whatsapp:
    container_name: mautrix-whatsapp
    image: dock.mau.dev/mautrix/whatsapp
    restart: unless-stopped
    volumes:
      - ./mautrix-whatsapp-data:/data
    hostname: mautrix-whatsapp

      I have nginx running as a reverse proxy on the host. I haven’t gotten the federation to work yet but I think it’s an ipv6 issue.

      Setting up the bridges was quiet easy using these instructions

      Let me know if you have anymore questions. It’s running on a small host with 40 docker containers running in parallel and the cpu sits idle at 5% so it’s not much of a drain.

      • flauschke@feddit.deOP
        1·
        1 year ago

        See my reply to the comment above. I made the post right before bed so it took some time

  • z3bra@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    0·
    1 year ago

    I used to do it, but not anymore as it was kind of clunky in my case. But I used dendrite as the matrix server rather than Synapse, so that’s most likely the reason.

    I ended up moving the database on a separate host rather than using SQLite, and it added way too much latency to the whole system. Storage was also a big issue in my case, as all media received by the bridges are stored locally, and boy does it grow fast in my case haha.

    When dendrite reaches a more mature state, I’ll 100% do it again though !

    • flauschke@feddit.deOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ll have to look out for the media storage issue. Do you know of any way to clean it up periodically?

  • ShittyKopper [they/them]@lemmy.w.on-t.workEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I’d probably host my own Matrix if Conduit wasn’t still so behind on stuff. Like, I think they still don’t support spaces properly, right?

    Even Dendrite feels far too heavy and that’s intended to be the “light” option compared to Synapse, which needs an entire server onto itself to have any kind of speed behind it.

    • outcide@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      Synapse really isn’t that bad unless you’re joining big rooms. I held off for ages because I thought it was a pig, but I have it running (along with a bunch of other stuff) just fine on a minimal VPS.