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Just setup a self hosted server. My family are now all chatting on it. Works great and simple to use.
Matrix is an overhead mess, from what people have advised me. Avoid.
*Synapse is a mess
The Matrix protocol is certainly more complex than XMPP, but I think a lot of bad fame comes from Synapse being big, bulky and complicated.