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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
How are the moderation tools? I see matrix having a big troll problem, enough to put me off of it.
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.
Thst branding reminds me of the extensive complaints of Anubis beeing too weaboo for production applications lol.
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...
Damn, I knew it had problems with room stability, but that's kinda completely ridiculous.
Because it's not true, and hasn't been true since 2018 at the latest.
It's not as dramatic as GP makes it, but Matrix had been at the prototyping stage and at figuring out its core protocol and state resolution algorithm for more than a decade now, it's pretty ridiculous in itself.
So you're saying all these concerns have been alleviated ?
Posting a 3 coming on 4 year old post, of course it's not going to be accurate any more. And that's for the points that aren't just fear mongering in the first place.
I'm trying so hard not to hate this post but you have given me so many reasons to
use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others
mismatched fonts
comic something font
no human readable data next to the QR code
mismatched gradient radii in the corners
Make it stop 😭
EDIT: For those who care, this comment falls into the category of "said in jest, meant in earnest". I know it's all on-brand and comedic, but my gut reactions are what they are 😂
Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the 'brand'. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can use Element's Synapse and you'll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That's kind of the point.
the only valid complain is "no human readable data next to the QR code"
somebody: makes anything
lemmy: we hate this
I love how the culture of the fediverse is consistent. it hates everything, everywhere, all at once, and all of the time.
I tried to get my friends off of reddit on it and that's what they always commented about, so they'll never join.
I use the continuwuity server. Thank you to the devs for all of the hard work!
Funny, I've had the exact opposite experience reddit vs lemmy. People are much more supportive here.
Reddit is especially a shithole for that exact use case (sharing tech projects), because (I suspect) pecking order games and performing for imaginary audiences. Between that and the slop...yeah, nah. Fuck Reddit.
YMMV
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
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)
Respectfully this is a dumb fucking name
It's a spiritual successor to conduwuit, the name checks out imo.
Feel free to use Synapse, og conduit or whatever floats your boat.
I love it
Your users won't ever see the name.
Does it work for non-furries(fleshies?)?
I was under the impression that they preferred to be referred to as 'skinnies'. We are all flesh, after all... well except protogen...
We really want to use Matrix so bad, but none of them have every feature we need to replace discord atm.
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! ^^
Ive been keeping an eye on Movim for a discord alternative, I think spaces got added recently.
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.
This really is a bizarre thread, but anyways, thank you for sharing.
Does it have easy gif embedding like discord? I tried another chat app and it felt so stripped down without gifs or emojis