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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
Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.
When they have good names they get stolen.
Try took up about gemini protocol.
Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.
Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.
Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it's not a corporate project. You're hearing about it, because it's actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.
Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.
Respectfully, this software could solve all my problems in life, and I would still struggle to ask my friends to "federate with my continuwuity server so we can chat"
Then call it Matrix. They don't need to know and probably don't care about the specific server software you're using.
You can always change the name on your instance. Agree that there is no reason to use the project name, especially in this case.
Its just called a matrix server, you don't need to tell anyone the specific kind.
Respectfully, you have no idea how Matrix works and I know you don't use it if you think you have to tell people what backend you use for them to connect to you.
Is there any reason to use Continuwuity over Tuwunnel?
At first I uwunderstood your comment as a joke, but apparently Tuwunel does in fact exist and it's a continuation of Conduwuit.
*continuwuation
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.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| HTTP | Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| TCP | Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 2 acronyms.
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