![]() ![]() I did not try setting up my own homeserver yet. I am happy with the Element app on Nextcloud, it allows me to talk to people in the Slackware Matrix room but also to connect to the Libera.Chat IRC network through a Matrix bridge. Worth mentioning: both and Rocket.chat offer seamless integration of the Jitsi collaboration platform which is also covered in great detail in my article series. #Slack vs rocketchat installElement can connect to existing servers out there, or you can setup a Matrix server yourself.Īnd then there is an alpha-quality app to integrate Rocket.chat into Nextcloud but it is not advised to install that on anything else than a testing environment. How well do these two integrate with Nextcloud? On my own cloud server (based on the Nextcloud platform) I installed Element for Nextcloud, which is an app to use the web client called Element (formerly riot.chat). ![]() These two also use federation to connect to other instances of their own product but on top of that, these servers offer bridges to a whole lot of other communication platforms, such as Teams, WhatsApp, IRC, Slack etc. is built with the Meteor JavaScript platform. Two popular platforms exist which use completely different protocols: is built on top of its own Matrix open standard and Rocket.chat. ![]() What if you wanted to collaborate with people on other networks, say, other clouds? In the past I would be quick to point to XMPP server solutions like Jabber but those seem to be disappearing. The Jitsi Meet stack contains an internal XMPP communication server and Nextcloud collabration apps can only connect to user accounts on other Nextcloud server instances (through a process called federation). I am considering an additional article to my Slackware Cloud Server series.Īs I showed in that series, a Nextcloud server can be equipped with capable text, voice and video communication apps but they are self-contained. ![]()
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