I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don’t know.

I’ll be interested to see their implementation, though it likely won’t replace matrix for me.

It is, and that makes it much better than Discord, but currently they’re mostly building another monolith on the central instance. Self-hosting doesn’t mean much if the communities are all on there.

I’ll wait for federation, hope it comes soon. Till then, I see more potential in Matrix.

In my eyes, the only sensible way of building such a platform at scale is having it be federated. Otherwise you can host a server - and if you’re unlucky, might need accounts on five servers to access all the groups you want.

If their federation implementation comes relatively prompt and is workable, that’s great. If not, it feels like a way to bootstrap a centralised alternative to discord. Pre-enshitification discord, but it’d again be up to a single entity whether it stays that way.

I don’t mind paying for hosting, but I don’t want to jump from one centralised platform to the next.

They are selling a subscription. It isn’t really a donation if you pay a set price for services.

I’d also hold out to see their federation implementation before considering them as viable as matrix.

They do seem better than stoat, though.

Didn’t Vivaldi? I don’t really use them cause I mostly avoid non-FOSS software, but I seem to remember them announcing they’d be keeping support.

No, the red flag is being ‘self-hostable’, but trying to concentrate all your users in a central, non-federated, monetised instance.

Also, we cannot verify how long they where in development because they squashed their git commits. There’s usually no good reason to do that.

I host two homeserver, one on synapse and one on continuwuity, both pretty small (tens of users), but with users in lots of large rooms. The second one was significantly easier to set up, and uses a lot less resources.

Also, element and element X work, but aren’t great. It depends on the user, of course, but I don’t think you get people by giving them the ‘dumbed down’ version.

Isn’t fluxer partially LLM-coded according to the dev?

Out sound like you are outsourcing comment-writing to an LLM.

If you need to keep windows around, you can also do what I do for my VMs. Download Win11 Enterprise IoT LTSC from massgrave.dev. Doesn’t have Bing search in the search bar, just local, no Co-pilot, no bullshit.

I’d prefer not having to use it at all, but some software just doesn’t play nice with wine yet.

Yup, typo. It is lit, though.

I have deployed LiveKit for my homeserver yesterday. I’m not gonna lie, it does involve a bit of work, but once it’s running it is very seamless.

I had a brother laser printer with a pre-heating roll that went bad. Sourcing a replacement for that was pretty annoying. But I get your point.

Curiosity Stream is fine if you are looking for a service that let’s you pay to stream nature docs. The rest, I’d probably avoid. Some of the because they suck, others because there are better alternatives.

Edit: Commented thrice due to app issues.

Yeah, I usually approach this stuff from the standpoint of someone who is already actively self-hosting. For people stuck in Google/MS, it is certainly better.

Vaultwarden is free. Bitwarden is free. Bitwarden Premium is 10€/year.

For what it offers, Proton is pretty expensive. They are also making inter-operation with other services difficult or impossible.

There’s much worse, but they aren’t that great either.

Meh, I actively use it. I get why it might be unintuitive to someone newly switching.

… I actually like being able to copy a website and middle clicking to open it. I don’t think it’s a problem, it just needs to be telegraphed to the user better, and togleable.

You just have to Flash coreboot, I have three chromebooks deployed with family, one with mint and two with Endeavour. Even Touch and audio drivers work for those specific models (Acer Santa and Asus Babytiger).