For people running a family chat in their #selfhosted #homelab: What is the system with the best mobile experience (both Android and iOS)? I’ve been using mattermost, but my family is not super excited about it. I’m thinking of running something else instead, but I don’t want to test every single platform available

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  • hendrik@palaver.p3x.deEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think they have push notifications in XMPP these days. At least Prosody has modules like mod_unified_push and mod_cloud_notify and that seems to be supported for example by Conversations.im

    To be honest, I didn’t have lots of battery drain, back when I used XMPP. And other old-school protocols like e-mail and sip voip don’t seem to be very bad either with whatever mechanisms they use. Or my phone isn’t reporting battery drain correctly… And with Matrix I also had to set up push notifications manually, or it’d just receive messages with a random delay per default.