Rocksdb has tuning options for hard drives, but not sure Stalwart exposed them

On desktop? Yes. On Element X? Not yet. Requires additional setup, as it’s not a core part of the homeserver

Generally you can’t tag stuff from your phone. Either tag it on MusicBrainz.org / ListenBrainz.org and then pull that in via Picard or Beets or make playlists

A lot of the people reporting issues with Matrix being slow and resource heavy are reporting issues with Synapse, which is Element’s big Python implementation. My Continuwuity instance, which is a server written in Rust, uses a fraction of a CPU and a total storage in the hundreds of megabytes. A few less features, but it has most of the ones people care about.

I kind of don’t want to bother replying to your random claims, but I’ll bite a little:

That post is now five years old, and almost completely wrong or outdated. That first paragraph is also absurd fearmongering - and both technically impossible for matrix and against Element’s buisiness interests. I develop my own homeserver software, and it’s recently become more popular than dendrite. I use a client developed by a friend that seems like it has more features than element (although it’s less user friendly).

Being an official standard isn’t working out particularly well for ActivityPub.

For spam protection, we use tools like meowlnir or draupnir with the cooperation of the homeserver to allow completely blocking spam invites - so if a matrix ID goes evil you can leave the room you have with them and add them to a ban list, and you can subscribe to a variety of other ban lists to ban things in advance

Matrix is just as much as a standard as XMPP, if not more so because extensions actually get merged into the core spec

I’m talking about https://github.com/element-hq/matrix-authentication-service which is the only implementation of https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-doc/pull/3861 right now.

Yeah, saml is a nightmare! Never make me touch saml, please 🥺

In Continuwuity, the first user created is the admin user - so creating a user using either a registration token, or an admin command via --exec, the emergency password, the interactive console, etc would work.

Hi there, Continuwuity developer here - This seems like an awesome idea! You might also want to see if you can use/extend the new oauth specification from MAS to create a more ‘Log in with Social’ like experience, too, although only Synapse supports that right now

This is like the opposite of what you want to do for complex software - don’t add more abstraction, or you won’t know what to do when stuff goes wrong!

Certificate transparency, unless you use wildcard certs

It is, although they all go… to localhost

Only one of them plausibly hasn’t, and that’s because it’s not got a multiplayer mode

I feel like people didn’t make this much fuss about micro python lol

A human doesn’t have to cut any pieces off or inject any chemicals to be transgender.

If you’re not bursting you didn’t have fish and chips

I’m pretty much sure only free option for finding out what other people search for is Google Trends. It’s very valuable data that is hard to get, so the companies that offer it charge quite a lot for it.

Yeah in my project open registration is behind an option called yes_i_am_very_very_sure_i_want_an_open_registration_server_prone_to_abuse lol

Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.

Here are some of the things I self host that I haven’t seen mentioned:

• Continuwuity is a chat server that talks Matrix, so you can join the chat rooms of a lot of open source projects or make end to end encrypted private chats
• Forgejo is a self-hosted code forge (github alternative) - very useful
• FreshRSS is a good one if you like to follow blogs, newsletters or pretty much anything ‘news’
• Grafana plus VictoriaMetrics and/or Quickwit is very useful for keeping track of the health of all your services
• Homepage is a… homepage for all your services
• Stalwart gives you a mail server. Set it up for any other projects that need to send mail, or as a backup for your emails, contacts or calendars - it’s the easiest way to set that up self hosted. Making it suitable as your main email may need more effort (delivery).
• Related to Continuwuity / matrix, you can set up the Mautrix collection of bridges, which let you bridge Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, telegram, and more into your matrix account or chats seamlessly.
• LMS (lightweight Media Server, not to be confused with Logitech Media Server) is an alternative to Navidrome that I find works better with my library tagging and ListenBrainz
• Speakr - audio transcription with diarisation. Very useful if you like to record meetings.