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
Respectfully this is a dumb fucking name
This is the homeserver written in Rust, right?
A suggestion: wherever a QR code is included, the human-readable content should be included next to it. Not everyone has a QR code reader handy, or their reader has the bad habit of immediately opening links or apps. In this case, I see that it just goes to https://continuwuity.org/ and is benign, but others may be apprehensive at naked QR codes.
(there’s obviously an exception for QR codes that are intended to convey machine info, like TOTP codes)
It is!
Yeah, I see your point, and I included the link in the alt text. On the actual design itself though, any URL I wrote in could be completely different from the QR so it seems slightly pointless - especially as it would just be writing Continuwuity a third time haha
This really is a bizarre thread, but anyways, thank you for sharing.
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
Well if that is your only negative point, it must be pretty good.
it absolutely is! honestly all matrix homeservers are impressive, the protocol is not for the faint of heart
phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin
What is that and why is it bad?
you may want to turn that off before booting first time
How do you do that?
I assume they’re referring to the announcement check, configurable via an option in your config file. It’s what we use to make sure everyone knows about important things like security updates.
Edit: Lemmy keeps breaking the link, it’s under allow_announcements_check
Thst branding reminds me of the extensive complaints of Anubis beeing too weaboo for production applications lol.
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
Doesn’t Matrix do everything you just listed?
Not the screen share which is pretty important to us. Can’t get it to work 90% of the time.
You should file an issue.
Where we had the issues, we did report them at the time. It was a while ago, so can’t remember which ones that we tried had issues. Have it in our plans to try a few again soon next time we get free time
Ive been keeping an eye on Movim for a discord alternative, I think spaces got added recently.
Haven’t heard of this one! Will look more into this
It’s not matrix-based, but: Haven. It’s what I setup the… second? third? time discord had burned their users. The only thing missing for me is Xbox support, as several of my social circle are console gamers. But for pc users, it’s got everything I need.
Will look into this, going to have our own server eventually so this would help a lot! ^^
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.
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.
Well thanks for at least explaining what it is, but isn’t Matrix already self hostable? Anyway what’s wrong with IRC?
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…
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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.
Does it have easy gif embedding like discord? I tried another chat app and it felt so stripped down without gifs or emojis
Depends on the client you use. Sable has loads of features like that.
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.
How does this compare to tuwunel?
