Self-Hosted Team Chat: Matrix vs Rocket.Chat vs Mattermost for Your Homelab
Every few years another wave of people gets tired of a chat platform tightening its terms of service, shutting down a client, or just getting bought by someone they don’t trust, and goes looking for a self-hosted replacement. The three names that always come up are Matrix, Rocket.Chat, and Mattermost. They get lumped together as “self-hosted Slack alternatives,” but they’re not really competing for the same job. Picking wrong means either running something that fights you every day or running something with ten times the operational weight you actually need. ...