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derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

“something running” - do you mean the server binary? Because, yes, if you’re using your own server you do need it to be running. Same for the client, I guess? I guess I don’t really understand what you meant by that.

Some obscure service relied on it as a support channel and last thing I remember is that matrix server stopped working.

That’s an issue with any federated service, yeah. If the server is down, it’s down. But as a bonus, unlike Discord, when a server is down you can just move to another. So, honestly, I see that as a boon.

As far as p2p goes, there was an effort to make that a while back, but it looks like people lost interest.

Though, personally I think federation is good enough. That’s why I’m on Lemmy/the Fediverse, after all.

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