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

Matrixdotorg · tutorial · Watch on YouTube

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What it is

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 The description warns it is now quite outdated and links to updated material.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2023

What HN commenters said

  1. “Actually setting up a server is not difficult.”

    Shows setting up a server with video conferencing

    kitkat_new, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “Why Isn’t Telegram End-to-End Encrypted by Default (2017)”

  2. “A direct example of setting up Matrix is shown here [3], using a $20USD/month Digital Ocean droplet.”

    Direct example of setting up Matrix on a small droplet

    29083011397778, 2021-01 · Recommendation · in “Signal Is Back”

  3. “I found this video to be super helpful”

    Super helpful for Matrix server setup

    schoolornot, 2021-03 · Recommendation · in “Signal Appears to Have Abandoned Their AGPL-Licensed Server Sourcecode”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: matrix, synapse, jitsi, debian, self-hosting

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