Matrix Synapse on HDDs 😱

Dokuwiki has a well working WYSIWYG editor these days: https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:prosemirror

Mediawiki is a pain yes. I personally like Dokuwiki (see it in action here: https://wiki.slrpnk.net/ ) and Bookstack is also not bad (see it in action here: https://wiki.f-hub.org/ ), but it is a bit restrictive in regards to structure and access rights for other users.

They (Element / New Vector) got a major early investment in 2018 from Status, a cryptocurrency/web3 company, and later in 2021 an even bigger one in relation to Protocol Labs, who peddle their own cryptocurrency.

XMPP obviously. Have a look at https://joinjabber.org/

This is a fundamental issue of the Matrix protocol, yes. For regular small scale use it doesn’t matter so much, and the state history gets reset every time you do a room upgrade, which is another annoying “feature” of Matrix, but it eases the fundamental problem a bit.

But IMHO the Matrix protocol is a child of the Bitcoin hype era and is built on a similar data-structure that is inherently impossible to scale and the developers of Matrix should have realized that early on. Their bosses back then actually did, but they spun it off as a separate company and got some crypto-currency investments so the can was kicked down the road and here we are…

https://kanboard.org/ is easy to run and works well.

Ghost in the machine 🤷

Impossible to tell and it sometimes happens.

There is a better, community maintained fork now: https://github.com/matterbridge-org/matterbridge

https://hypersomnia.io/ can be played in the browser and probably also selfhosted.

The XMPP channel search has a few channels that are not assorted geekery, but yeah most of it is.

The app is often used as a mandatory second factor for the browser page as well.

Would be cool to see them expand support to Fairphone 4/5 as well.

Edit: FP5 in the works apparently: https://github.com/pocketblue/pocketblue/pull/130

Yeah, but you (or someone in a similar situation) will have to take them to court for the legal situation to be clarified. Just putting another license on the code will not stop them.

The problem is that the AI companies claim they are just “reading” the code to let their AI models learn from it, thus licenses / copyright doesn’t apply in their interpretation of the situation.

Misskey works like and is compatible with any Mastodon or similar Fediverse instance. Once registered you can subscribe to local and remote users and then only see their updates and not the firehose all feed as on the public landing page.

You don’t need a Misskey (or Sharkey) account to participate in Japanese language Fediverse discussions, however note that due to different CSAM related legislation quite a few larger Japanese Fediverse instances are defederated from western Mastodon etc. instances due to frequently shared “loli” illustrations on the former.

It supports Webpush, so if you use a browser for the PWA that support that you should be getting notifications. In my experience it isn’t quite as reliable as a native Android app though, but nothing really stops you to have both on your phone connecting to the same account.

Yes, but that is wrong. It is all open-source and you can run an entirely unlimited version with any xmpp server yourself.

You can self-host it without any restrictions. The website is a bit unclear on that.

XMPP based https://prose.org/ might be an option, but it isn’t officially released yet (you can selfhost it though).