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The Laura Secord brand was fire

(ymmv. I was a kid)

Docs and Sheets are my real challenges to give up

Nice, thank you. I appreciate the clarifications!

Thank you. I think in my (ill-educated, poorly framed) original question, I think I was seeing if there were recommendations from the list on joinmatrix.org/servers/ I see that some are green-lit for privacy while others aren’t.

This team isn’t enterprise level or anything and I’m just looking to elevate them from emails to, originally, Slack. They’re not sharing state secrets or anything, but are inconsistent about sharing client information that while not necessarily directly identifiable, should be kept under a tighter lid than it currently is.

I think this helps me clarify what I am asking: I want to set up an instance of Matrix/Element that is private (defederated?).

To do so, it has to live somewhere. And I gather that can be a public server like @domi linked to, or on a VPS (or physical server, but I don’t want to go there).

Public server is what I originally had in mind: are there any that are better options than others in relation to security/privacy?

If I instead rent space on a VPS, (a) what’s a decent one to consider and (b) do I then need to install something in addition to Element like Synapse, which someone else mentioned?

I’m clearly weak on terminology. When you say Synapse instance, Sypnase is the server software that would then allow me to host an instance of Element/Matrix? And an instance would be running that software somewhere — namely, a device I own or a VPS?

Do you mean self-hosted, like from our own computer?

Anyone know if there are go-to servers to use? Looking to try Matrix for a team of around 20 where client information can be shared privately

EDIT: mainly I was seeing if any of the public servers listed on joinmatrix.org/servers/ would be more recommended than others