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@austin@mstdn.ca

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austin, to random
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Recent malpractices by the instance administration (which I will detail later) have compelled me to move out of this instance, effective immediately. I'm now at @austin and the transfer will occur in the next several hours. This account will be kept as an archive. Apologies for any inconvenience.

由于站点管理问题，本账号将于数小时内迁至 @austin ，随后留作存档，望周知。对于造成的不便烦请原谅。

austin, to fediverse
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I think maybe the reason why the 's being quite old is because younger people want (save the politically active, which is not mainstream) and older people want (who want to be heard). (And yes, the concept is deceptive in forcibly merging the two.) This is why mainstream young people use Instagram, not Twitter (beyond reading news) and, by extension, the fediverse. Is that just the pitfall of or could it be mitigated in design?

austin, to Japan
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I liked in a lot and often touted it as an example for others to follow, but seems like I overlooked its -intensiveness - that it was built on people often working overtime - and now it's crumbling.

https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15070097
https://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/15084953

Governments need to step in even when privatized public work most of the time. As well, policymakers should be mindful of the impacts of post-pandemic reform on both supply (drivers) and demand (commutes).

austin, to food
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While deciding where to have after a 3-hour exam, I suddenly remembered that the university has a , and since the time is still within the hot meal period, I tried it out. The is good, nothing special. Since I pay for each entry ($14.89 for lunch), I opted to eat as much as reasonable (well, after exam is understandable...), but ultimately couldn't handle more than 2 main plates (pictured), 2 drinks (coffee & root beer) and a soup (chicken noodles)...

Beef & carrot stew, served with cauliflower, sweet potatoes and spiral pasta.

jarek, to Matrix

emailing to tell us they're withdrawing customer cloud hosting, so I guess I'll be looking for alternatives for a six-person family chat service

Still ? Maybe

(Replies and suggestions OK & appreciated)

austin,
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@jarek https://matrix.org/hosting shows other companies offering hosting.

hammer_gaidin, to Matrix
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Are people here on or ? or both?

austin,
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@hammer_gaidin I use Matrix (wrote a whole guide on it), and some rooms I'm in are bridged to IRC.

ralen, to Matrix

since i dont want to use discord anymore, can anyone suggest me some ... servers? guides? mobile and desktop clients? i'd like them to be about linux, , , maybe even . memes are desired also

austin,
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@ralen I've written a guide: https://joinmatrix.org where in /guide there is a list of recommended clients, and on the top there's a public homeserver (like an email server) list. As for spaces (like a Discord "server") to join, there are many tech groups... A few large Linux projects do host homeservers (kde.org, gnome.org, opensuse.org, archlinux.org), so you can check their room directories. https://the-apothecary.club/ runs a few rooms on left-leaning subjects.

sarajw, to random
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Um. How on earth did I get 1.5k followers?

Who are you all? Maybe some of you would like to follow each other? I'm really not one of the more interesting people here 😅

Permission to introduce yourself and talk nonsense in this thread has been granted:

austin,
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@sarajw In my experience I find fediverse users much more willing to follow you once they know your presence (the exact level of presence required varies). But also the number of followers includes migrated accounts or accounts on dead instances, so do take it with a grain of salt. See pin for my introduction.

austin,
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@sarajw Yes; the migrated accounts must manually unfollow them prior to migration. In following management on web user settings, you can actually filter followers that have migrated (to the knowledge of the instance, which is not guaranteed, thus the filter is not perfect).

andrei_chiffa, to random
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Ok, does anybody here have a list of the legitimate domains Microsoft uses to authenticate its products?

Because with "microsoftonline" I have no idea if I am getting phished or if I am actually logging into Teams to see files people in my org sent me.

austin,
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@andrei_chiffa I think *.microsoftonline.com are for enterprise accounts whereas *.live.com are for consumers.

austin,
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@andrei_chiffa A quick search gives me https://cleanbrowsing.org/help/docs/domains-to-allow-for-microsoft/ which looks comprehensive enough.

rachel, to selfhosted

So what are people running these days for small matrix homeservers? I've got a Synapse+Element instance running but I want to run on this domain as well and could be convinced to try something lighter

austin,
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@rachel https://conduit.rs is often used for single-person (or otherwise small) private Matrix homeservers.

kiwa, to random
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😀 "For support..."
🤔 "...please join..."
💩 "...our discord"

austin,
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@alxlg @chanakya @fallenhitokiri @kiwa @elisse Matrix rooms don't scale well, once the event chain gets complex enough then you might get state splits/resets which can kick/demod people randomly (this is why GrapheneOS and Techlore left Matrix). There is also a lack of moderation tools for non-technical users. So it only works up to a certain size. But, coming from Discord, I think Element is quite intuitive. (Also, my guide: https://joinmatrix.org/guide/matrix-vs-discord/ )

austin,
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@fallenhitokiri @alxlg @chanakya I'm only speaking practically here (ie. comparing to Discord). Everything that's more advanced than kick/ban/mute/ACL warrants the Mjolnir/Draupnir modbot, be it flood protections, slow mode, etc. If you have multiple rooms and don't want to apply moderation one by one, then you absolutely must have the bot; but the bot is designed to apply only one set of policy across all rooms it's moderating, so every community must have their own bot.

austin, to random
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updated. The good thing is they went open source. The bad thing is they tried to make me auto-follow their account (I did get visual prompts in their new features screen but I wasn't able to unfollow on that screen), and they got a Threads-ish icon. Their feature appears concerning: it sends your handle to their official instance moth.social, which is using a Mastodon fork serving the "Smart Lists" feature. One can reasonably see how this undermines ...

austin,
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Now has always been interesting in making users not feel the aspect. On one hand, the app fetching stats/replies of posts directly from the origin instance can be convenient. On the other hand, it nudges new users to their own instance, and there's the : browsing the Lists and viewing the List feed all happen on moth.social regardless of what instance you're on. Frankly, they can learn from https://a.gup.pe and make auto-boost accounts instead...

DigitalGemini, to privacy
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Hey @mammoth! Care to comment on the new app 2.0 ? Looks like it collects more data than previous version. Many other apps either don’t collect data period or don’t link to the user.

austin,
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@DigitalGemini Their Smart Lists feature, which uses their official instance moth.social, collects your handle. (The app and the instance are both open source now, so you may also verify on your own.)

18+ theblackdeth, to Matrix

Is it time to switch completely to w/ since because of this shitty update?

austin,
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@theblackdeth See https://joinmatrix.org/guide/matrix-vs-discord/ for a feature comparison. In principle, Matrix is adequate enough for small, private groups, but large, public communities may face technical issues.

kirschwipfel, to Matrix German
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Is there some way to prune old messages, status, etc. in ?

I'm curious how a company will implement a retention policy as required by GDPR.

austin,
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@kirschwipfel Notwithstanding with the federation aspect, just having a retention policy locally doesn't appear to be practically possible even though the option is offered in Synapse... The homeserver I'm on (tchncs.de) enabled it at some point but abandoned it because of technical issues. It might be possible in a smaller, private federation (with less traffic) though.

hexaheximal, to Matrix
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My issues with , and why I still currently prefer :

  • It's XML everywhere
  • The session-management system is inferior to what matrix has with session ids and security keys
  • The closest you can get to a web client is ConverseJS, which is really underwhelming, especially since it uses bootstrap (the css framework) and doesn't even support dark theme :(
  • XMPP has already fallen of a cliff in terms of popularity, and it's only getting worse, meanwhile matrix is thriving.
austin,
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@aslmx @hexaheximal Have you tried https://hydrogen.element.io ?

austin, to ai
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I feel like coming up with the most appropriate query to find papers (in my case, taking into account both the number of hits and the accuracy) in search engines for a literature review is making me feel like an ...

觉得做课题时捣鼓一个能给出既准确又广泛的结果的关键词的过程可能和AI出题家的工作差不多吧……

ju916, to Matrix
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What matrix chatserver do you use and why?

austin,
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@ju916 The best advice is still to read through the homepages of each homeserver listed on https://servers.joinmatrix.org . I myself am on tchncs.de, and I know users on envs.net, catgirl.cloud and arcticfoxes.net. But it may be better to choose other homeservers as some of them are quite under-appreciated.

shawnhooper, to Matrix
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Playing with for the first time. The client (Element) seems pretty slow/laggy. Is this normal?

austin,
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@shawnhooper You may consider moving out of matrix.org as being the default homeserver creates occasional performance issues. See https://servers.joinmatrix.org for other homeservers that you can try.

KiltedQueer, to Matrix
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Anyone hae a general chat/LGBT server what is taking new registrations they recommend? Possum City isnae taking new regs.

austin,
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@KiltedQueer Is possum.city having database issues again? The API says it's open... Anyways, most servers on https://servers.joinmatrix.org are general. For LGBTQ-specific homeservers, try asking the-apothecary.club, transgirl.cafe or slipfox.xyz for an account; otherwise, among open ones, catgirl.cloud and kitsunes.club seem to be inclined.

Chamaeleon, to Matrix Italian
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"The "default" #Matrix homeserver is matrix.org, which is used by 35% of all Matrix users as estimated in 2020. Although it is okay to use it [...], it is highly encouraged to choose a different #homeserver"

Ok, grazie... Ma posto che non posso "running your own", sulla base di cosa scelgo in modo "sicuro" dalla lista proposta https://servers.joinmatrix.org/?
(tra l'altro non c'è mozilla.org)

#UnoAiuto

austin, (edited )
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@Chamaeleon Well, it's difficult to run a public homeserver - the database and storage overhead is quite great - hence the number of them (under my very minimal criteria for the list) has stagnated if not shrunk... But even so, I think using homeservers that are there longer (marked with "longstanding" in the list) is still a good step towards decentralization without risking too much instability.

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