I got distracted from my work so I made some Continuwuity propaganda. Continuwuity is a lightweights Matrix chat server that you can self-host pretty easily. Give it a try :3
I’m trying so hard not to hate this post but you have given me so many reasons to
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use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others
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mismatched fonts
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comic something font
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no human readable data next to the QR code
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mismatched gradient radii in the corners
Make it stop 😭
EDIT: For those who care, this comment falls into the category of “said in jest, meant in earnest”. I know it’s all on-brand and comedic, but my gut reactions are what they are 😂
Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the ‘brand’. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don’t like it, I’m sure you can use Element’s Synapse and you’ll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That’s kind of the point.
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be warned that continuwuity phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin, you may want to turn that off before booting first time
That sort of telemetry should be opt in, not opt out
It’s not telemetry.
while i don’t want to throw shade on the developers’ intentions, nor have any real proof of what data is being kept, a fetch request bears by minimum the source ip (which can be geolocated) and the fact that the homeserver exists and runs continuwuity.
i’d suggest a matrix channel as alternative, so hosters can opt-in by joining. plus, by leveraging the matrix protocol, such announcements become federated push notifications, meaning they could come from any homeserver (limiting ip logging) and don’t imply the continued existence of such deployment, or the software which is being run
even converting such mechanism to an opt-out “auto-join announcements channel” would be more privacy respecting
Thst branding reminds me of the extensive complaints of Anubis beeing too weaboo for production applications lol.
What do weaboos have to do with Egyptian gods?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis_(software)
Talking about this as if people couldn’t replace the images here with whatever they wanted https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/tree/main/web/static/img
Damn weaboos really do be making everything an anime girl
How do I actually create an account? I’ve tried deploying a test server but when I try to create an account with Element X it just says the server needs to be upgraded to support matrix authentication service and account creation. FluffyChat doesn’t let me create an account either, it just shows me a login page.
As I’m just testing the federation port isn’t actually accessible, would that break account creation or do you have to use the console to create accounts? I’ve never used matrix before
Element X doesn’t support the traditional way of making accounts, try use cinny.in to make an account in the browser and then log in with element X. Fluffychat should also present a “create a new account” button above the login button. Make sure to follow instructions in the console for registering the first account.
The federation port not being accessible won’t break local functionality but will break federation, so you won’t be able to talk with other people. Either change the configured port in the well-known file or forward the port via your reverse proxy.
I’d suggest joining the support room via an alt account, you’ll get faster responses.
Thanks that worked!
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I don’t mind the name. It’s pride month so I figure the community would turn the silly up a notch.
Im not a tech person but, I’m gonna try it out. Thanks OP.
ITT: people complaining about the name. Nothing else negative.
Which to me sounds like it must be a damn good software.
how am I supposed to talk my family into using this over something normal?
Unless I’m mistaken, this is just a matrix server. If you were using Dendrite, you wouldn’t say “hey let’s try dendrite,” you would say “let’s try Matrix, here’s my server.”
At least, that’s how I would say it. Server software choice is details they would not care about and would likely cause confuwusion.
somebody: makes anything
lemmy: we hate thisI love how the culture of the fediverse is consistent. it hates everything, everywhere, all at once, and all of the time.
I tried to get my friends off of reddit on it and that’s what they always commented about, so they’ll never join.
I use the continuwuity server. Thank you to the devs for all of the hard work!
I hate you
And I berate you!
Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.
Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.
Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.
There’s almost always a backstory for why the makers choose the name they did, but that doesn’t change the harmful result. A bad name seriously limits how much the software will ever get adopted. Heck, if there was a FOSS project i cared about enough then i would fork it and keep everything the same except give it a more palatable name.
If the fucking name of a project is the reason you won’t use it, then by all means, don’t. We’re not missing you.
Myopic take. Generally projects are healthier when they have a larger userbase
Some users are not worth having.
We really want to use Matrix so bad, but none of them have every feature we need to replace discord atm.
It’s not really designed to be a Discord replacement. It’s a messaging app/protocol that can do voice/video calls. Discord is a passive state voice / video / text channel app that was designed to create spaces for different topics. Matrix has added a similar hierarchical feature as an option, but its not the same and I don’t think it was meant to be.
We mean, overall we need something to text (plus send files), call, video/screen share and bonus for emojis, stickers and gifs. We get that discord and matrix isn’t really the same thing but the end result and use case is :/ So it would be a replacement for us
Bingpot! Features trump objections, which is how any industry knows it doesn’t really have to listen to users all that much. Deep down, addicts really don’t care if their heroin is ethically sourced from sustainably managed small-lot producers.
Pretty sure those are basic features of a community messaging/vc platform. Can survive perfectly fine and happily with less features if it meant that it was open source or we could host it ourselves.
Does it work for non-furries(fleshies?)?
I was under the impression that they preferred to be referred to as ‘skinnies’. We are all flesh, after all… well except protogen…
Matrix’s algorithm is fundamentally broken. I guess it works if you only talk to people you know won’t abuse it, but otherwise it’s easy to split rooms or even re-write their history if you want to…
Damn, I knew it had problems with room stability, but that’s kinda completely ridiculous.
Because it’s not true, and hasn’t been true since 2018 at the latest.
So you’re saying all these concerns have been alleviated ?
Posting a 3 coming on 4 year old post, of course it’s not going to be accurate any more. And that’s for the points that aren’t just fear mongering in the first place.
- Redaction exists and removes the contents of events, while keeping metadata needed for the functionality of the room.
- Any program can handily ignore deletion - back when I used discord I had a handy plugin to view deleted messages for moderation, for example.
- Badly behaving servers can behave badly and it will not affect correctly behaving ones, they will apply redactions as expected.
- “Room joins leaves, etc are permanently a part of the room’s history” well yeah, that’s expected. You can upgrade a room if you want to start from scratch there.
- We can now prevent spammers from ever entering the room with join gates, among other things - but if you’re not running a big public community, then our antispam tech is probably completely unnecessary for you
- Currently, timeline ordering is defined by the server. Continuwuity uses a simple, understandable and secure scheme - it orders by the time your server receives messages.
- As per the above point, this doesn’t affect Continuwuity
- That’s a tradeoff of allowing public rooms with tens of thousands of people in the same app as end-to-end encrypted DMs. Good job Matrix isn’t really meant to be a Signal competitor.
- this point was relevant… Four years ago. You’ll only encounter issues if you’re using a broken server or ancient client now.
- “Started trying to filter recently” god you can tell how outdated this is
- It defines it pretty damn strictly now, and this isn’t an issue in practice for a very long time.
- Mmm yeah I don’t think you’re particularly likely to experience one of those in day-to-day usage.
- and this is false lol
- Ancient and fixed
- False. There are many ways to do this.
- I’ve never encountered this, and it’s impossible in new rooms versions.
- Aand outdated by years again
- see above
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Here is a link if you want to know more :
How are the moderation tools? I see matrix having a big troll problem, enough to put me off of it.
Moderation tools are powerful but seperate to the server. Asgard.chat offers some hosted options, but meowlnir, Draupnir and policyserv are the usual tools.
I’m sure you meant something else, but I can’t deduce what. Dedicated? Separate?
Edited, ty
Thank you.
Do they have MAS support yet? I kinda need my single signon :p
I don’t understand why people need SSO.
Every place I’ve every worked that had SSO had an outage, and then nobody could log in to anything.
SSO moar leik single point of failure amirite?
yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything
Does it have easy gif embedding like discord? I tried another chat app and it felt so stripped down without gifs or emojis
