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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
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.
That sort of telemetry should be opt in, not opt out
It's not telemetry.
BREAKING - Release 0.1 of DON'T is now available - DON'T does absolutely nothing when you start it, except to present an enormous Consent List of everything it can do if you let it. Outraged digital freedom advocates are criticizing what they call excessive download times, sluggish support, and that the app takes up memory space without doing anything.
while i don't want to throw shade on the developers' intentions, nor have any real proof of what data is being kept, a fetch request bears by minimum the source ip (which can be geolocated) and the fact that the homeserver exists and runs continuwuity.
i'd suggest a matrix channel as alternative, so hosters can opt-in by joining. plus, by leveraging the matrix protocol, such announcements become federated push notifications, meaning they could come from any homeserver (limiting ip logging) and don't imply the continued existence of such deployment, or the software which is being run
even converting such mechanism to an opt-out "auto-join announcements channel" would be more privacy respecting
phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin
What is that and why is it bad?
you may want to turn that off before booting first time
How do you do that?
I assume they're referring to the announcement check, configurable via an option in your config file. It's what we use to make sure everyone knows about important things like security updates.
Edit: Lemmy keeps breaking the link, it's under allow_announcements_check
We really want to use Matrix so bad, but none of them have every feature we need to replace discord atm.
Ive been keeping an eye on Movim for a discord alternative, I think spaces got added recently.
Haven’t heard of this one! Will look more into this
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.
We mean, overall we need something to text (plus send files), call, video/screen share and bonus for emojis, stickers and gifs. We get that discord and matrix isn’t really the same thing but the end result and use case is :/ So it would be a replacement for us
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.
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!
I hate you
And I berate you!
I love that you hate him
you love them, really? how wonderful, I love you even harder
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
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 😂
the only valid complain is "no human readable data next to the QR code"
Eh, the gradients hold some weight too for me, lol
For me it is the comic sans looking font
Those who would be off put by the UwU are not those I wish to talk to :3
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 project is the "official community continuation of the conduwuit homeserver". Conduwuit was a popular matrix backend until the project was archived.
Although interestingly, conduwuit says the official continuation is Tuwunel. interesting
It is primarily sponsored by the government of Switzerland 🇨🇭 where it is currently deployed for citizens.
Now this, I like!
Github, not so much
I find it hilarious that a government is sponsoring something with "UwU" in the name.
Respectfully this is a dumb fucking name
I love it
Your users won't ever see the 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.
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)
I made an NFC/QR code card for my wifi details at home, and that also includes the details written in clear text on the card, since some devices simply don't do QR (or NFC in my case).
Do they have MAS support yet? I kinda need my single signon :p
I don't understand why people need SSO.
Every place I've every worked that had SSO had an outage, and then nobody could log in to anything.
SSO moar leik single point of failure amirite?
yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything
This really is a bizarre thread, but anyways, thank you for sharing.