Hiya.
Because a certain country I’m a citizen of likes messing with international traffic, I’ve been increasingly aware of the fact web services can break here overnight. One of the things I’ve still yet to move somewhere more local (or at least have a reasonable backup plan) is messaging.
Matrix seems to be a decent enough replacement for Discord and Telegram in case things go south, but I’m a total brokie. What would be the be the least resource intensive server to put on a VPS in case I’ll need to do it, and would I lose out much in features (say, multiuser voice chats) if I were to use that least resource intensive server?
Cheers.
I would be very hesitant to switch to Matrix as I’ve had some bad experiences with it and it is prone to memory leaks.
If you are really that concerned you could switch to Briar. Briar is totally decentralized so it is very hard to censor. The downside is that you may not receive messages if your offline. You can get around this with briar mailboxes on a old phone.