Scott

Self-hosted, yes.

I use Matrix with bridges to Signal, WhatsApp, Telegram and Slack.

That means a single app that I can communicate on multiple platforms with.

My main conversations happen natively on Matrix but can also talk to “normies” on any of the others.

I use Rethink because I can have a “local firewall” and a WireGuard tunnel at the same time.

This implies they’re storing the plaintext password.

Ideally the password would be hashed with a salt and then stored. Then it’s a fixed length field and it shouldn’t matter how long the password is.