Hey #mastodon !
With #discord doing its age verification thing, where are your communities migrating?
#matrix ? #discourse ? Anywhere else?
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@alxd We're evaluating Matrix and IRC atm.
Matrix has all the bells and whistles, but it's also quite resource-hungry, and tedious to maintain. Federation for smaller servers is likely not an option - making it rather unwieldy, when many clients don't support multiple homeservers.
IRCv3 has some nice features, like message history and replies, but also major friction points like poor support for uploading images via the client.
At least our data will be our own, and we can use it how WE want.
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@hexmasteen @alxd to my undestanding, self-hosted server admins are reluctant to federating, because connecting to a mega-instance can quickly swamp the server's disk, RAM and CPU. One could say Matrix is geared towards mega-instances, because a situation where *everyone* self-hosted their own federated instance could make the resource usage problem even worse. At least that's how it was explained to me.
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@hexmasteen @alxd I only saw your link to a discussion of multiple account support. If you have configuration tips, I'd be interested in seeing them! :)
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@CFDS Oh 🤦 - I pasted the wrong link. Here is the one I wanted to share: https://element-hq.github.io/synapse/latest/usage/configuration/config_documentation.html#limit_remote_rooms
@hexmasteen @alxd Of course, this is what we're already used to with IRC - there are a couple of massive server networks, and people just choose to trust these server admins. It's not necessarily bad, but I'd prefer smaller servers where trust comes from things like actually *knowing* the server admin IRL..
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@CFDS @alxd Fractal (Linux), FluffyChat, Tammy and Commet support multiple accounts and Element X Android currently has an experimental implementation. Maybe one of those can be an option for your users.
If you don't federate, resource usage of synapse should be modest. Otherwise there are settings you can tune. https://github.com/element-hq/element-meta/discussions/1832