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Welcome to frei.chat!

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frei.chat was opened on January 23rd, 2022 and enjoys new users every day. Take the opportunity and chat with your friends on frei.chat or other Matrix servers worldwide. Connect your WhatsApp, Telegram, Singal or other social networks.

   Check out "First Steps" or "Apply Now!"

Check the current transition to OpenID

Don't miss any more updates: Blog

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Features 

  • Frontend clients
  • End-to-end encrypted Matrix chats (federation wide)
  • Bridges to third party messenger
    • WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, etc.
    • End-to-bridge encrypted bridge chats
  • Bots to extend chat functionality
    • Maubot: Query RSS feeds, conect to Github and Gitlab
    • Postmoogle: Your very own @frei.chat mail address
  • Internal push service via NTFY
  • Retention policy for local and remote media at 30 days
  • Sliding sync for ElementX (Android and iOS)
  • Regular software updates

Additional services

These are some additional services by frei.chat. They are completely free to use.

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Password safe: Vaultwarden

Alternative implementation of Bitwarden.

Features:

  • Organizations support

  • Attachments and Send

  • Vault API support

  • Serving the static files for Vault interface

  • Website icons API

  • Authenticator and U2F support

  • YubiKey and Duo support

  • Emergency Access

Links:

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Pastebin: PrivateBin

PrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.

 

Links:

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Search machine: Searx-NG

Privacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.

 

Links:

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PDF editor: Stirling PDF

Manipulate, expand, extract data from PDFs and many more features. 

 

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Alternative Matrix services

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If you are a power user and need your own server, check out etke.cc.

 

 

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Or check out the official 
joinmatrix.org servers list site.

 

FreshRSS: RSS-Reader

FreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator.

 

Links

Service uptime and updates

Uptime Kuma is checking constantly if all services are online and responding.
https://upt.frei.chat/status/frei-chat

If you are interested which versions of each module frei.chat is running you can find a complete list here.

Latest updates

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