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Katerina Marchán Nov 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!

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Ben Ramsey Nov 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. 😔

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Arya K

Nov 10, 2022

@ramsey @zkat @matrix 1) try conduit or dendrite (both are a bit buggy tho) 2) dont join anything bigger than 2000 participants. I have a synapse server running on my pi and it works great since i only use it for bridging. Normal instances take more than 10-15 gigs ram tho 💀 3) Check out XMPP :) prosody rarely goes above 300 mb for a normal setting

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RAOF

@arya @ramsey @zkat @matrix My Synapse instance doesn't use anywhere near that, and I've got all the caching knobs turned waaaaay up (as it's running on an old HP N54L microserver with plenty of RAM but a potato CPU and a rotating rust array backing the DB).

It's a single(ish) user instance, but it's joined to a bunch of big rooms (including Matrix HQ, at 44K members), and my understanding of Synapse performance is that room complexity dominates and users are basically free. Synapse is at about 2GB RSS.

Now, performance on my potato is on the slow side, but I'm pretty sure that's more a matter of don't-back-PostgreSQL-on-untuned-ZFS-on-slow-rotating-rust than anything else.