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  • What you need to be aware off is that the LibreOffice based options run a full headless LibreOffice client on the server for each connecting user and stream the view as tiles to the webclients. If you mostly use low power devices to access your office files remotely this can be great as it offloads the processing to the server. But I think in most home server or VPS settings the server speed is the more limiting factor.

    OnlyOffice on the other hand runs entirely in your browser and thus puts little extra strain on the server.


  • GoToSocial is just another Fediverse software that works with multiple users like any other. The difference is really only that it is tuned more towards smaller instances and as a result is easier to set up and maintain. It also assumes most people will be using a mobile app with it anyways and thus the built in webclient is very bare bones. It does work fine with external webclients like Phanpy though.





  • You must have last used XMPP more than a decade ago, since none of these issues still exist (except on Pidgin which also hasn’t been updated since a decade).

    And XMPP is also not a “chatty protocol, and wasteful of network bandwidth” at all. In fact it is using significantly less bandwidth than Matrix and works on extremely shitty connections. It is basically the exact opposite of what you say.



  • Synapse has become open-core and the possible alternatives are either abandoned or are currently in a really unclear state. And due to how Matrix federation works, it is quite difficult to change anything later and if you are unhappy with the setup you have basically burned a domain and need to start fresh on another. If you just want a chat server I would rather suggest to set up a XMPP server with a Slidge.im Matrix bridge.

    That said: there are easy to use official Docker containers for Synapse, and you just need a redirect in your reverse-proxy for some sub-directories to put it on the same domain than something else. There are also some other, more complex ways to do it, but just redirecting the subdirectories is the easiest.