Decoding the hidden trade-offs of #E2EE and #usability
from #element / #matrix with some #threema, #wire, #whatsapp and #signal into
https://element.io/blog/decoding-the-hidden-trade-offs-of-e2ee-and-usability/
Simplified sliding MAS
Started an #FFXIV #Matrix space at @ffxiv:veganism.chat. (You don't have to be a vegan to join this space, that's just the homeserver I'm on.) Come chat? :)
Matrix server feature differences? (aka Which server software to choose?)
https://feddit.org/post/25946123
@dyne #Matrix needs significant #moderation and #accessibility tools to be an effective community platform. And I say this as an instance owner.
Matrix server feature differences? (aka Which server software to choose?)
https://feddit.org/post/25944799
Fellow homelabbers, if i want to selfhost a Matrix Homeserver for max. 10 people (mainly family) what homeserver software should i use? The software should run on a small VPS with 2GB Ram and 60GB Storage. Working Voice Chat is essential for the kids while gaming.
Would you go with a full blown Synapse install or would you go with something like Continuwuity, Tuwunel or something completely different?
@homelab @homelab_de #matrix #synapse #tuwunel #continuwuity #selfhosting #homelab
#Matrix is a distributed database, for which you pay the costs. #XMPP is a real-time messaging system, and you pay different costs.
Like the lack of a decent messenger app, especially for multi-user chats.
They are very different beasts, even if both doing the same task.
But Matrix is on the rise today, and I'd rather have that than nothing, so best of luck!
I wish #matrix the best, but #XMPP #Jabber still rocks:
> If deployed on a 16 GB RAM machine with at least 4 cores, a single ejabberd node can typically handle 200-300 K online users.
From: https://docs.ejabberd.im/get-started/
My 17 years old server is on 8GiB RAM with four 1.2GHz cores. I don't notice it. User data takes up 200MiB of space (it massively increased recently for some reason). Unlike Synapse :)
#messaging #im #decentralized #federated
Personne ne parle de #Jami et pourtant !
@Jami
Making robots that do passive background shit for me is rather fun. Just installed #n8n on my server and damn is it fairly simple to use if you have a bit of experience with node/visual coding.
My job posts the work schedule through really shitty accounting software that has scheduling essentially duct taped onto it through a web portal. You get no notification when a schedule is posted or updated and must login to get anything, and if you logged in previously, their serverside caching can result in getting old schedule data unless you hard refresh the page
Not me hehehe, my bot logs in, scrapes the schedule page, converts it to ICS, updates my calendar and notifies me through #matrix. Every time it checks it's as if it is from a fresh browser so no cache BS too.
Next up will be a bot that reads food notes on my #nextcloud, uses it to search results for recipes to import into my nextcloud cookbook app to keep my meal prep game fresh.
So I've lately been thinking about Discord and the definition of what it means to replace it.
And so I'm reminded of a good few things I've always hated and noticed about the platform anyway, at least across the circles I am and used to be on:
- The vast majority of Discord servers has the same kinds of generic channels for chatting, music, videos, art, etc. that are not tied to the stuff these servers are about. Not even for the sake of looking to impress the streamer in question, if that "stuff" is a streamer.
- The forum channels have probably been poorly marketed, because they're not so much old forums as they are mini-Reddits. And people barely use them anyway. And not even for organizing art! They'd rather have a text channel for art and tell people to just not talk that much so art can simply flow.
- Here's a fun one: People don't even like threads on Discord. Possibly because they look ugly. They just don't click with people, even with the benefit of keeping things tidy!
Simply put, people just want to chat, whether on text or voice, and sometimes with video.
And so I have to wonder if we really need a Discord replacement, more than we simply need a breakdown of everything.
At least in my case, my habits always lied in hiding those generic channels from servers because I'd rather post stuff for them here on Mastodon. On the other hand, I use Matrix through a Beeper account on NeoChat (and only open Beeper when I need to link accounts from other chat platforms that I regularly use, like Signal). Thanks to the power of the fediverse, I don't need to sign up on Lemmy (but I could if I want to!).
I think something akin to this decoupled mix is what people probably would want at the end of the day. That's why I still hold hope on stuff like Stoat!
#Discord #Reddit #Matrix #StoatChat #Revolt #Element #Beeper