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- Comment on Converser.eu is being flooded 3 hours ago:
Matrix Synapse on HDDs 😱
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 5 hours ago:
Dokuwiki has a well working WYSIWYG editor these days: www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:prosemirror
- Comment on Which wiki software to host 5 hours ago:
Mediawiki is a pain yes. I personally like Dokuwiki and Bookstack is also not bad, but a bit restrictive in regards to structure and access rights for other users.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 5 hours ago:
They got a major early investment in 2018 from Status, a cryptocurrency/web3 company, and later in 2021 an even bigger one in relation to Protocol Labs, who peddle their own cryptocurrency.
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 5 hours ago:
XMPP obviously. Have a look at joinjabber.org
- Comment on How "heavy" is self-hosting matrix really? 6 hours ago:
This is a fundamental issue of the Matrix protocol, yes. For regular small scale use it doesn’t matter so much, and the state history gets reset every time you do a room upgrade, which is another annoying “feature” of Matrix, but it eases the fundamental problem a bit.
But IMHO the Matrix protocol is a child of the Bitcoin hype era and is built on a similar data-structure that is inherently impossible to scale and the makers of Matrix should have realized that early on. Their bosses back then actually did, but they spun it of as a separate company and got some crypto-currency investments so the can was kicked down the road and here we are…
- Comment on Almost finished my pins :3 11 hours ago:
Nice ones 👍
- Comment on Digital "bulletin board" for tasks. 1 day ago:
kanboard.org is easy to run and works well.
- Comment on Server randomly locked up. Trying to find out why 1 day ago:
Ghost in the machine 🤷
Impossible to tell and it sometimes happens.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 1 day ago:
There is a better, community maintained fork now: github.com/matterbridge-org/matterbridge
- Comment on Selfhosted, multiplayer, browser based games 2 days ago:
hypersomnia.io can be played in the browser and probably also selfhosted.
- Comment on (XMPP Setup Guide) Discord Was Never the End Game - TonyBTW 2 days ago:
The XMPP channel search has a few channels that are not assorted geekery, but yeah most of it is.
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- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 6 days ago:
Snikket is definitly not harder to set up than Synapse or Condinuwuity, the difference is mainly that Matrix is based on standard web technology, so if you have some knowledge in that already, XMPP can feel a bit alien since it is an actual protocol different from http(s).
- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 6 days ago:
Snikket makes it quite easy, but the extra complexity of hosting from home is probably better avoided for total beginners.
- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 6 days ago:
Yes, Matrix is a bit ahead with SFU calls (after depending on Jitsi Meet for a long time, which uses xmpp under the hood). But for most usecases it doesn’t matter so much. On a modern internet connection a SFU basically only starts being useful in calls with ten or more participants. For corporate board meeting calls maybe, but your family call is also fine without.
- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 6 days ago:
For now voice and video calls in xmpp only lightly touch the server and are mostly p2p. This comes with some scaling issues but for small groups of around 5 people it works fine.
Movim is a bit special, for other clients it doesn’t matter much.
- Comment on How to self-host a Prosody XMPP server on Bazzite with Podman for Movim 6 days ago:
Movim specifically works a bit better with ejabberd, who also provide easy to use containers.
Prosody is more of a Lego set to build your own server, so I don’t think they even provided official container images for a long time. There is snikket.org though which is an opinionated distribution of Prosody with easy to use containers. Sadly Snikket doesn’t play so well with Movim out of the box.
In general it is probably easier to start out with a rented VPS. You can move to your own server later on when you got the basics down. Since XMPP servers are quite lightweight they run fine on low end VPS that can be rented for as little as 1€/month.
- Comment on Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine? 1 week ago:
At some point the benefit of extra RAM isn’t there anymore compared to what the CPU can actually run. With a CPU like that 8GB is probably sufficient and 16 would be merely nice to have for some additional caching.
- Comment on Old Thin Clients - Which CPU is fine? 1 week ago:
I would go for the Wyse 5070 as a server. More RAM is good and the CPUs while somewhat slower are more power efficient.
The 4/5th gen Intel CPUs are the last gen that is really quite poor in power efficiency when mostly idling. 6/7gen made huge improvements in that regard.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Rumor has it that they are also working on reimplementing Team Fortress 2.
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 2 weeks ago:
This will just make them sound more believable when they hallucinate. LLMs can conceptually not be made to not lie, even if all the info they are trained on is 100% accurate.
- Comment on Based on this graph, and this graph alone, guess at what time I completely blocked OpenAI crawlers 2 weeks ago:
This is not how things work on the modern web. Did you just wake up from a 20 year coma?
- Comment on FR#153 – What does a Discord replacement look like? 2 weeks ago:
This is actually a feature missing from many browsers. Maybe Discord has a workaround, not sure.
Movim.eu recently added it, but it only works on Chromium based browsers.
- Comment on Why is self-hosted voice chat so hard? 2 weeks ago:
f-droid.org/packages/se.lublin.mumla is not so bad as a mobile client for Mumble.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 2 weeks ago:
It’s a fork of a fork or Conduit.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 2 weeks ago:
Starting point based on what? Do you plan to use it personally to join many large channels from FOSS projects? If so, you need to plan for a relativrly beefy VPS, like 4 core, 8gb ram, 100gb+ ssd storage.
But for small private chats with no federation a cheap minimum VPS can work.
If you want my personal recommendation I would avoid hosting Matrix. A well federated server is costly to run and not really worth the hassle and a small private chat server with bridges etc can be done equally well or better with XMPP.
- Comment on System requirements for a Matrix server? 2 weeks ago:
As others have already alluded to, Matrix is a bit odd in that regard as it runs a distributed database and the resource requirements depend on how much of the matrix network is mirrored on it. A single power-user can cause huge resource use just by connecting to a lot of federated active rooms. On the other hand a server that is mostly used as a private family chat can run on a modern RasberryPI without much problems.
Synapse or Conduwinity etc. makes little difference in praxis as both need to do the same database merging operations.
- Comment on Is there is an up to date instance of Pleroma in English that have registrations open? 2 weeks ago:
They removed a lot of cruft and low quality code from Pleroma and in general it is developing at a nice and steady pace. In addition the developers are not right-wing nut jobs.