Matrix Synapse on HDDs 😱

Dokuwiki has a well working WYSIWYG editor these days: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:prosemirror

Mediawiki is a pain yes. I personally like Dokuwiki (see it in action here: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/ ) and Bookstack is also not bad (see it in action here: https://wiki.f-hub.org/ ), but it is a bit restrictive in regards to structure and access rights for other users.

They (Element / New Vector) got a major early investment in 2018 from Status, a cryptocurrency/web3 company, and later in 2021 an even bigger one in relation to Protocol Labs, who peddle their own cryptocurrency.

XMPP obviously. Have a look at https://joinjabber.org/

This is a fundamental issue of the Matrix protocol, yes. For regular small scale use it doesn’t matter so much, and the state history gets reset every time you do a room upgrade, which is another annoying “feature” of Matrix, but it eases the fundamental problem a bit.

But IMHO the Matrix protocol is a child of the Bitcoin hype era and is built on a similar data-structure that is inherently impossible to scale and the developers of Matrix should have realized that early on. Their bosses back then actually did, but they spun it off as a separate company and got some crypto-currency investments so the can was kicked down the road and here we are…

Nice ones 👍

I am not aware of any specific technical issues with those instances. Maybe those posts happended during our recent outage? But then you should be still able to pull them in manually.

Technically that is possible, but a) people who know how to run an instance rarely want to be responsible to run a second one, and b) there are some legal issues with personal data transfer (under GDPR), meaning members would need to agree individually to the transfer and those that do not agree (in time) would need to have their personal data deleted before the transfer.

I remember reading about someone routing internet over XMPP, because the in-flight wifi would allow unlimited WhatsApp, but only checked for the ports or so which are the same for XMPP (because WhatsApp is a lightly modified XMPP under the hood).

https://kanboard.org/ is easy to run and works well.

Ghost in the machine 🤷

Impossible to tell and it sometimes happens.

Vor ca. 25 Jahren als ich noch jung und idealistisch war, hatte ich mich recht viel bei Mehr Demokratie eV engagiert. Die Gespräche mit Politikern fast aller Parteien waren dabei allerdings sehr ernüchternd. Änderungen am Wahlrecht die die Parteilisten aufbrechen würden, wurde von Hinterbänklern noch recht positiv aufgenommen. Aber alles was so an sachbezogenen Vorschlägen kam um Bürger direkt in die Entscheidungsfindung einzubeziehen (Bürgerräte wären nur ein Beispiel von Vielen) wurde entweder mit sehr fadenscheinigen Nazivergleichen abgebügelt oder nach dem Motto “ich will selbst gestalten und nicht nur die Bürgerentscheide umsetzen” recht demokratiefeindlich verklausuliert abgelehnt.

Persönliches Fazit für mich damals war das Politiker und Parteien strukturell demokratiefeindlich sind und Teil des Problems und nicht der Lösung sind.

Ah, I didn’t know this was another spiel at destroying net-neutrality with only a few allow-listed services like Shitter available. Thanks, but no thanks.

There is a better, community maintained fork now: https://github.com/matterbridge-org/matterbridge

https://hypersomnia.io/ can be played in the browser and probably also selfhosted.

The XMPP channel search has a few channels that are not assorted geekery, but yeah most of it is.

Fluxer is very untested and also run by a single commercial company (afaik). It looks promising, but I would not recommend it right now, maybe in a few years once it becomes clear where this is heading.

If you want a less techy people friendly app then there is https://movim.eu/ that works quite well and is proven tech based on XMPP.

The app is often used as a mandatory second factor for the browser page as well.