Communication
4 guides about self-hosted communication solutions
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Self-Hosting Mastodon: Run Your Own Fediverse Social Media Instance
A guide to self-hosting Mastodon for decentralized social media. Covers Docker deployment, federation, moderation, storage management, and comparison with GoToSocial, Akkoma, and Misskey.
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Running Matrix Synapse: Self-Hosted Encrypted Messaging at Scale
A deep dive into deploying Matrix Synapse as your homeserver for encrypted messaging. Covers Docker deployment, federation, database optimization, bridges, worker scaling, and performance tuning.
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Self-Hosting Matrix with Element: Decentralized Chat You Actually Control
A practical guide to running your own Matrix homeserver with Element. Covers Synapse and Conduit, bridges to Slack and Discord, encryption, and why Matrix beats proprietary chat.
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Self-Hosting Discourse: Build a Modern Community Forum
A practical guide to self-hosting Discourse as a community forum. Covers the official Docker installation, configuration, moderation, SSO, plugins, email setup, and comparison with Flarum.