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I'm looking for something that can do chat, video calling with support for guess links and chats. I need it to work in the browser so I can send people a link to a chat session. Bonus if it has a simple mobile app and calendar integration.

Anyone know of something that isn't Nextcloud Chat?

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[–] Smoolak@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm hosting a matrix server with a TURN server and it's fairly easy to selfhost. This sounds exaggerated.

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That just covers voice/video. OP is asking about a lot more.

[–] Colloidal@programming.dev 10 points 1 day ago

And chat. But yeah, no groupware.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

Video+chat is all I'm wanting for the most part

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Do you need Element for that? Also is there a way to do guest access with a link?

[–] tekato@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

You can allow guest accounts, although it’s disabled by default in synapse.

Call supports depends on the client you’re using. Element is usually ahead in features implementation, but you can get a list of clients and filter by features in the matrix website.

Also I’m not sure what the other person meant by easy to setup. Matrix servers are notoriously hard to setup when compared to anything most things you would find yourself selfhosting, specially with WebRTC/TURN. I think there’s an ansible playbook somewhere, but I never tried it.