Katerina MarchánNov 9, 2022

since a lot of folks are becoming newly interested in escaping corporate silos and moving to community-based services, are you aware of @matrix?

Matrix is to Slack and Discord, what Mastodon is to Twitter: a decentralized, federated network based on open standards/specs. It also supports full end-to-end encryption, just like Signal, so you can exchange messages privately!

If you find the fediverse interesting/inspiring, I recommend giving matrix a whirl. The quickest way to get started is to head over to https://app.element.io/ and make a (free!) account (although you can also join any number of other home servers, or host your own--they all talk to each other!).

If you _do_ end up checking it out, please do say hi! I'm @zkat:zkat.tech over there. I also manage a "space" (a group of channels, kinda like a Discord server) that you can join by clicking here: https://matrix.to/#/!tKdDSgQTxQzcOuTXqV:matrix.org?via=zkat.tech&via=matrix.org&via=envs.net

I hope this sparks your interest! I'd love to see you over there, too!

Element

Show threadBen RamseyNov 9, 2022
@zkat @matrix I have tried so many times over the years to set up and run my own Matrix servers, but I have failed each time. It seems so much more difficult than running Mastodon. 😔
Show threadKaterina Marchán
@ramsey @matrix I just pay for EMS and call it a day tbh
Nov 9, 2022 at 11:14pmWeb
Show threadBen RamseyNov 9, 2022
@zkat @matrix I tried EMS, too, but the server kept running out of memory.
Show threadKaterina MarchánNov 10, 2022
@ramsey @matrix weird. I've literally never had that issue, but maybe I'm not joining a lot of Big Rooms??
Show threadBen RamseyNov 10, 2022
@zkat @matrix I was trying to set up a bunch of community channels and then bridge them with IRC, but then realized I couldn’t do the bridging on EMS, so I moved them all over to matrix.org.
Show threadwb x64Nov 10, 2022
@ramsey @zkat @matrix I run my own Matrix via @yunohost btw and have only had the growing pains of any self hosted anything. (Akin with setting up a web server or email server.) Anyway joining the default server probably isn't bad either.