I feel like Matrix has gotten a lot of hate the last year or so. Don’t really know why. Perhaps people see it as being misguided.
Comment on Question: Is there a Self Hosted Discord like app?
Actionschnils@feddit.org 1 week ago
We changed to element (matrix-protocol) a while ago. Until now it worked fine for us - without any real problems. It already got a native voice/video-call implementation. But i heard that selfhosting isnt that smooth
petersr@lemmy.world 1 week ago
mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah, self-hosting it can be a bear, especially since you need to deal with the whole “bots trying to kill it will regularly post CSAM in random channels, and if any of your users are in that channel it will federate to your own server and now you have CSAM saved on your server’s cache” stuff. It’s the same problem that Lemmy was dealing with during Reddit’s APIcolypse. You can always choose not to federate, but that largely defeats the point of the protocol existing in the first place.
You also need to set up TURN servers to get functional voice/video calls. That’s something the average Joe won’t know how to do, and is typically going to require a paid tier from some external host like Cloudflare.
early_riser@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Why federate if you’re just expecting a small group of friends to use it?