Ahhh

I use Syncthing already for a lot of my stuff, but it doesn’t fit the bill right now. I’ve been reading about Matrix while looking around for this, do you have any experience with it?

Oooh this looks interesting, what a nice project!

I’ll check it out, but it seems the local part is more of a backup than a primary feature, so not sure if it’ll work for me

XMPP sounds great, but I heard it has difficulty with file transfer. How was your experience with it?

Mostly it’s because we’re using Telegram for our workflow and everyone is pretty used to it by now (including our parents, who’re slow to adapt).

We’re gonna be sharing videos, photos, and files on an hourly basis, and not every person is invovled with the every other person’s workflow. If it could ideally be a messenger, we would have conversations regarding these files, and the chat history+notifications on new file upload would be pretty nice.