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minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down1·edit-27 months agoI’ve used matrix. I am still using matrix. Just not for anything with a significant community
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoNixOS uses it, and it has the biggest repo out of any distro, so I’d consider it a significant community
minus-squaredb0@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down1·7 months agoGreat. Which means NixOS has enough volunteers to handle that part. I don’t.
minus-squaretoastal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·7 months agoServers & clients use too many resources. Because of this, most have centralized around Matrix.org which kind defeats the purpose.
minus-squareVenia Silente@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·7 months ago Servers & clients use too many resources. Didn’t XMPP solve that in, like, 1999? (Really, what is with devs and nu-protocols these days? Back in my days you could run a webhost on a potato)
minus-squaretoastal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThe did, but Matrix is coming to reinvent that while but by wasting resources trying to duplicate the state of everything at massive storage costs & without the extensibility because JSON.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThere’s a Mozilla home server as well, so federation is working.
minus-squaretoastal@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoThat server is under the Matrix.org fleet. It’s like saying Edge isn’t Chrome.
minus-squareiopq@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoThe server itself doesn’t matter, you can migrate it to AWS or your own physical server if you oenn the domain
Great, use Matrix
I’ve used matrix. I am still using matrix. Just not for anything with a significant community
NixOS uses it, and it has the biggest repo out of any distro, so I’d consider it a significant community
Great. Which means NixOS has enough volunteers to handle that part. I don’t.
Servers & clients use too many resources. Because of this, most have centralized around Matrix.org which kind defeats the purpose.
Didn’t XMPP solve that in, like, 1999?
(Really, what is with devs and nu-protocols these days? Back in my days you could run a webhost on a potato)
The did, but Matrix is coming to reinvent that while but by wasting resources trying to duplicate the state of everything at massive storage costs & without the extensibility because JSON.
There’s a Mozilla home server as well, so federation is working.
That server is under the Matrix.org fleet. It’s like saying Edge isn’t Chrome.
The server itself doesn’t matter, you can migrate it to AWS or your own physical server if you oenn the domain