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Danie van der MerweMatrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication
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Matrix - An Open Network for Secure, Decentralised Communication
Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication. You can self-host and federate, or join existing servers, to enable instant...
sss@danie10 is any usable server software already exists ?
@sss a few options at https://matrix.org/hosting/
@danie10 ah, i mean server software, which can be installed at own server, which will not eat one cpu core and one gb of ram per message, i fear until such software will be developed matrix can't be more than just interesting toy
@danie10 c++ boost based implementation looks interesting, but as far as i understand it's not read y for any production use yet
@danie10 i have not dig deep into protocol specs yet, but resources requrements of current implementations looks completely insane.
i believe what current approach to software engineering : "just use all available resources for my fancy hello world program" is also insane, and it's very sad what most software designed this way nowdays (.
i believe what current approach to software engineering : "just use all available resources for my fancy hello world program" is also insane, and it's very sad what most software designed this way nowdays (.
@sss although I see from https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server they reckon it can even run on a free tier hosting plan. They do disable a few extras, but that does not too bad. A home server obviously would not be hosting hundreds of users.
@danie10 third-party hosting is always insecure, even if all what they can do is just cut off communications, but i think in matrix case it's also a leak a whole lot of metadata, so if you need real privacy and security - third-party hosting is not an option...
@sss yes and no, and likely depends on who the 3rd party actually is. Always best can be to self-host in that case. Metadata is largely mitigated if you don't provide any e-mail address or phone number, and you use Tor or a VPN, with encrypted rooms. That really eliminates most of the risk. All depends on what a user's priorities are I suppose, and what effort they are prepared to put in.
Hans van Zijst@sss I've used #Synapse for a few years, works like a charm. Resource consumption is reasonable, but I admit I use a dedicated VM for it, with 8GB of RAM. If you don't join big rooms (ones with hundreds of members and lots of traffic), Synapse doesn't require a lot of resources.
I have joined a number of really big rooms, and have never run into resource problems.
#Dendrite might be more lightweight, but that's not production ready yet.
I have joined a number of really big rooms, and have never run into resource problems.
#Dendrite might be more lightweight, but that's not production ready yet.
If you really need to hide absolutely everything, #Briar might be a good option.
https://briarproject.org/
https://briarproject.org/