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For me, something like PiHole for DNS-based Adblocking, as well as potentially a Wireguard/OpenVPN installation (via PiVPN potentially) for an easy adblocking VPN combination. Depends on the available bandwidth, however, but some lower powered applications, even up to a small personal Matrix Synapse server could be viable on 1GB Ram if not abused.
If you're thinking of hosting Matrix on that small of a server consider going with Conduit or Dendrite. They're not as feature complete as Synapse but they're substantially lighter.
It’s also obviously a different thing than Matrix, but Prosody for XMPP is suuuuper lightweight.
Oh yeah, I briefly tried Prosody/XMPP (before a domain scalper stole a previous domain of mine because of a loophole with the TLD i chose) and it worked really well.
It's a shame Matrix seems to be the current hot new thing when, with a bit of UX polish on all the apps, XMPP would work just as well if not even better.
XMPP works pretty well, but it's not in the spotlight as much as Matrix right now. I get the sense that Matrix servers tend to be pretty heavy weight in comparison? Main problem with XMPP in my opinion is that there's no "one true app" available for every platform. There's something decent everywhere (with iOS being the worst supported, but getting better, Siskin is pretty solid), but it'd be really nice to have a decent app like Element everywhere so you could help your friends on different platforms better, and trust that they're getting a similar experience. Conversations is kind of an amazing app on android, I like Dino on Linux, Siskin is pretty good on iOS... Not entirely sure what's going on with Macs (I think you can get Dino to work, but otherwise I guess maybe Beagle?)... I'm REALLY not sure what's going on with Windows.
But, por que no los dos! A lot of us host stuff as a hobby, so it can just be fun to set up an extra thing if you've got nothing better to do :P.
Snikket (which is run by a Prosody dev) is aiming to be the "one app" of XMPP. Their Android version is, IIRC, rebranded Conversations. Not sure on iOS/macOS but I think they have something there as well. And of course their server software is Prosody with a few extra plugins configured by default. All FOSS
I can confirm that the Snikket iOS app is rebranded Siskin :). Not sure about MacOS.
I'm really excited about Snikket, though. I hope it succeeds :).
Matrix is awful.
I will say that they have been putting a lot of effort into making it better, and it is better than it was, for sure. But it still sucks.
I'm picky about software FWIW. Maybe in another couple years they'll have basic UX, security, and performance figured out.
PiVPN on VPS works great btw