XMPP with OMEMO is probably the best you can do if you want privacy, modern features, and self hosting.
If you're doing a group chat E2EE is probably overkill unless you're in the military. IRC with IRCv3 features like persistent history will probably be easier to set up. If you don't really care about self hosting Matrix seems pretty popular. I would avoid it if that's important to you though. --Stephen On Sun, Mar 08, 2026 at 10:46:26AM +0100, Kirill A. Korinsky wrote: > On Sun, 08 Mar 2026 10:08:25 +0100, > bios_23498234908 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Anyone with an interest in messaging appz for openbsd who can recommend a > > good privact focused messaging app like tox? Thank you. > > > > Depends on your defintion of privacy mainly. > > For some definition self hosted XMPP or Matrix is good, for some not. > > -- > wbr, Kirill >
