Welcome to frei.chat!
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.
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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.
Password safe: VaultwardenAlternative implementation of Bitwarden. Features:
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Pastebin: PrivateBinPrivateBin is a minimalist, open source online pastebin where the server has zero knowledge of pasted data.
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Search machine: Searx-NGPrivacy-respecting, hackable metasearch engine.
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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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FreshRSS: RSS-ReaderFreshRSS is a self-hosted RSS feed aggregator.
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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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