Just wanted to let #retrogaming know that there's a very small chat that just started recently on Matrix for retrogaming. Would be great to get more people to join up: #rgmng:matrix.org
Congratulations to @tobias, one of the NeoChat maintainers, and to all the other successful candidates on being elected to the Matrix Governance Board! 🎉
Earlier this year, I was invited for an interview to represent the Dutch Green Party in the upcoming EU elections. Unfortunately, I did not make it on the ballot. 🗳
Yesterday, I received the good news yesterday that the community has elected me for the Governing Board of the Matrix Foundation! 🎉 I am very grateful for everyone who voted for me, and I will do my best to help Matrix become the standard protocol for instant communication. ❤️
Thank you so much for electing me to the Matrix Foundation Governing Board! I will do my best to guide the foundation in the interests of the whole community of present and future Matrix users 🎉
We did it, folks! Matrix has hit a new milestone in its open governance by electing a Governing Board to guide the Foundation and provide more representative and structured input to the evolution of the protocol.
Of course, while seating a Governing Board is a big deal, the hardest work remains ahead of us. I have high hopes for what we will accomplish together! 🚀 https://matrix.org/blog/2024/06/election-results/
Just a few days until the voting period closes in our Governing Board elections!
We're at or near 100% voter turnout in many categories, but Individual Member turnout is much lower. Check your inbox for an email from noreply@opavote.com and cast your ballot today 🗳 https://matrix.org/governing-board/elections/2024/
It’s so difficult (and expensive) to run a #Matrix#Synapse server for my own domain. Is it worth it?
I started out wanting to support Matrix, and I've set up a number of channels for my community on Matrix, but everything happens on Discord and IRC right now, and we have a bridge between Discord and IRC, but we can't bridge to Matrix at the moment, so is it even worth it to keep maintaining a separate Matrix presence?
If not, I’m just gonna shut it down. I don’t want to spend the money.
@ramsey I set up synapse many years ago and it was a nightmare. And a resource hog. Guess it hasn't improved. Wrote a few bots. Tried also to write a custom proxy and the proxying protocol was so weird. Hell the whole protocol was weird: maccaroons wtf? My understanding is that the server doesn't follow the spec anyway.
I don't consider Matrix a serious project or protocol anymore. If I had to build anything that had to work reliably I'd use either IRC or XMPP.
@ramsey FWIW, ours runs on an AWS/EC2 t3.micro (which is 2vCPU @ baseline 10% + bursts) and serves ~25 people on a given workday. It also does Tailscale, and runs our self-hosted Element if anyone happens to be using that today.
Those of you who use #Matrix - should I be using the Android app Element, or Element X?
I just want text based comms in the #EMFCamp channel. I'm not fussed about anything else.
The Element website recommends Element. But their GitHub seems to recommend Element X. And, frankly, I don't understand why I'd want one over the other.