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nx2@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Matrix is great as a discord alternative, I’d just wish it wouldn’t light my Server on fire every time I open element. Like I can live stream 4K to multiple people over that thing, but reading messages takes 30 seconds of fan screaming?

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sir_reginald@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
try XMPP, much lighter on resources.

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tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It still has the issue that joining a popular channel can bury a server for a couple of hours whilst it downloads the entire history since it was created (hillariously trying to connect to thousands of servers that no longer exist… the error log was… impressive).

The new protocol announced on here recently but synapse is stull running the old protocol with a proxy in front and the proxy just means clients can log off whilst it’s updating, it doesn’t fix the issue.

It’s probably fine if you don’t federate it, but I could just use my IRC server for that…

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EngineerGaming@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That is why I prefer XMPP. Three users, eats 25 mb RAM.

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jabberati@social.anoxinon.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
@nx2 @fne8w2ah Have you considered hosting a lightweight XMPP server and accessing Matrix through a bridge? https://aria-net.org/SitePages/Portal/Bridges.aspx
XMPP is the internet standard anyways, not sure why Matrix is necessary. Hopefully they become standard compliant soon. Venture capital startups reinventing internet standards in incompatible and inefficient ways is not helping.
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u_tamtam@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Don’t ever bring this to the people in charge or you might be told “sorry for that” “but now it’s been fixed, deployed any week now” “you are a liar, this has never been true” and “it doesn’t really matter for the general case” either in the same post or few responses apart. Matrix has been in a permanent state of unstable mess, and the leadership disingenuous attitude made me lose hope that this will ever change. More people should start reading through the fanfare and superlative blog posts, which, admittedly is the thing they do the best and much better than the other projects out there.

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