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This video: “Matrix really bad, xmpp really good. Trust me bro.”

Probably one of the most ridiculous things I’ve ever had to watch - regardless of the arguments being made. Also, the narrator sounds like a broken TikTok AI voice.

Just some responses:

you don’t have to use matrix.org, there are other sites you can sign up for (and thus avoid Google captcha)
you don’t have to use element, there are other clients (including element forks, if you want some of its beta features)
You can use ntfy and host your own push notifications - but for instant notifications on Android you’ll always need GMS as Android won’t allow an alternative. (and, no, I’d rather not root my phone, thanks)
re: xmpp is easier to setup: first pick a server, then deploy it, then pick a client. Just like Matrix. Almost like they’re both very similar.

So much trash in this video, it’s crazy.

If you like XMPP, use it. If you like Matrix, use it.

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MasterBuilder@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Thanks for enumerating the counter points. I’m immediately turned off by his vocal style, but I can look past that long enough to evaluate the content.

I have two big issues with it:

His assertions lack references to supporting evidence

his political allegiance gives me pause

I will check out his content more before I write him off.

It appears the android client he used is Cheogram, which I use. It is forked from Conversations, and is excellent. JMP.CHAT maintains it, and pretty much supports all of the xmpp standards. Including gateways to phone PBX, SMS, and Matrix.

They and sopranica offer fully compliant servers, including self hosting.
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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
idk about the rest but the $5 Hetzner box running Synapse is inaccurate. While you can definitely run either Prosody or Synapse in the same box, Prosody consumes much less resources, which means that if, for example, a $5 box can run a 500 users Prosody (XMPP) server, that same box running Synapse could allocate only around 100 users

(not actual numbers, I haven’t done any real benchmark other than installing both of them in mg Raspberry Pi, mess around with both and test how Prosody’s resources consumption is much lower, both on “idle” and when receiving traffic)

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- derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Sorry, I meant for personal use. It’s absolutely okay for a synapse server running 1~5 users connecting to large rooms and using multiple Appservices for bridging in other networks.
  
  Source: Been doing that for 3+ years.
  
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  - sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I get your point and your use case, but I like to look further in the viability of the network.
    
    yeah of course, a $5 box can’t host 500 users, they weren’t actual numbers. But in my tests on limited hardware, Synapse consumed almost twice as much RAM and CPU for (barely) the same usage. So I’d imagine that when scaling things up a large XMPP server can be run with much less hardware than a similarly sized Matrix server.
    
    This is quite relevant for the longevity of the network. Cheaper hosting means more people can afford to voluntarily run servers and also less amount of donations can cover the costs.
    
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    derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    You’re not wrong, but if we’re talking about the longevity of the network then I’d recommend looking at non-synapse servers. Synapse is designed to scale horizontally, not vertically.
    
    If you want something with more bang for your buck, with the potential for vertical scaling for small to medium size deployments, then Dendrite and Conduit are more viable alternatives.
    
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- ninchuka@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  try conduit if you want a HS thats alot more optimized and runs well without a ton of resources
  
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SummerBreeze@monero.town ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can’t join group chats of any decent size on Synapse. Put your money where your mouth is, how much you want to bet that you can’t setup synapse on a $5 hetzner and join the official Matrix.org group chat?

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- derin@lemmy.beru.co ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Yep, I’ve got 4gb of RAM and 2 vCPUs and am in Synapse Admins with 10.9k users. Sooo… Yeah?
  
  Again, though, if you want to use XMPP just use it - stop lying to people to get them into your camp.
  
  It’s not a fucking soccer team.
  
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