[Seeking] something to replace chat with self in WhatsApp/Telegram (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

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So I'm using a lot the option to chat myself in apps like WhatsApp or Telegram. But I don't wanna put my trust in them.

I tried about using NextCloud (I have an instance) Talk, but I'm not satisfied: the app won't load if I have no internet connection.

What I am actually looking for:

something with cross client sync that sync is ideally on my server
simple to use like sending message to self but with good search options, maybe even tagging
ability to send images, files etc
caches offline on clients

thanks.

P.S. wasn't really sure what tag to use here. Help seems like I'd use when I have an issue with an existing project. but I'm looking for a new one so I used this.

thanks!

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[-] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 9 points 1 day ago

Matrix seems like a perfect fit for you then!

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 1 day ago

well search is not that good, it can only find exact word matches for any of the words, but otherwise yeah. though I think telegram isn't much better at this either

[-] Quail4789@lemmy.ml 3 points 17 hours ago

Isn't that client dependent?

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 1 points 10 hours ago

it can be, if the client downloads everything. I'm not sure if most Matrix clients do that, I think instead they use the serverside search api: https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#server-side-search

though, after looking at it, it seems it has more features than what the element clients expose to us.
also, it seems it's not specified how the server should treat the search term. I think I remember something that with synapse, it is just passed to postgres as it is, but maybe a different homeserver can choose to implement it with wildcard or regex support

[-] Zelaf@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Search is definitely lacking sadly. Unsure if there's even solid plans to make it much better either.

I don't do a lot of message searching so luckily for me, it's not something that bothers me too much.

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 2 points 10 hours ago

I think I have found something interesting, check my reply to the other reply

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