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Are you familiar with a linux terminal? Than it is quite easy if you follownthe install instructions.

You can give https://pi-hole.net/ a try. If you are able to set up a raspberry Pi and follow instruction of the documentation 🙂

I use it regularly. There are some problem with key exchange in group chats. Sometimes users have to write messages to each other via direct message then everything usually works: so if users in group chats do not know each others, that can cause problems:

Concerning clients: Android: conversations Windows/Linux: Gajim Debian and other Linux distros: Dino

Concerning apple I do not know.

There is the promising snikket.org project who have a "product" approach, i.e. they are developing clients with the same look and feel for every client. But unfortunately, they are not there yet. But as far as I know they have funding.

XMPP is easier to selfhost than matrix. And it can run on a Raspi. You can install a xmpp server with e.g. yunohost, to make thinks simpler.

They explain it in the next sentence:

They won’t know that they can post publicly to their followers without their posts showing to everyone using the unlisted visibility.

If you are on a community based instance you don't have this problem

Why a lemmy fork an not a forum? Aren't forums designed for debates?

Just for reference: https://medium.com/we-distribute/the-do-everything-system-an-in-depth-review-of-hubzilla-3-0-692204177d4e

Forum channels are particularly noteworthy because they are analogous to Facebook Groups.

Can those groups reached via activity pub? So from actors not belonging to the corresponding instance?

I think it was collabora which can not do multiple cursors

What about osmand for android? I love this app

will it be open source?