Alexia

Sometimes I write here. see the pinned post (meowing) below

one that is intentionally and fundamentally incompatible to the existing Matrix network, and makes drastically different decisions in governance, software and protocol design, has different priorities and more.

Not out of malice, but because the current Matrix ecosystem is unsustainable.

In the Foundation's attempt to become more independent, they've given control over Synapse – The most feature-complete, most widely deployed, and only long-standing Matrix Home-server Implementation – over to Element and ended up making the entire Matrix ecosystem dependent on a for-profit, VC-funded company that does not care for core issues in the process. The way that other projects like Dendrite have faded away (and also been given to Element!), or how Conduit's development cycle is incredibly slow does not inspire confidence in other projects either.

To that comes the fact that many parts of the Matrix protocol are due not just fixing, but entire re-structuring to keep with the times. The server-to-server parts of Matrix have major issues especially in regards to state resolution and resistance to malicious federation. Not only is it almost impossible to defend a room (or letalone a whole set of them) against spam and abuse, there is also an attack vector in breaking federation in a room altogether that is being abused in places like #main:postmarketos.org

As it stands right now, I do not see the mainline Matrix.org Foundation fixing any of these issues. Not just because of them being closely adjacent to Element still, but also due to a lack of funding; Even if the Matrix Foundation was truly more independent by now, they would still lack funding required to do their work, and to do it well.

As such, I express my wish for a hard fork of the Matrix protocol. It should be lead by those who truly care about the core of the protocol, trust and safety and user-experience first; Not by who is funding a certain feature in Element; Not by the needs of B2B customers, all of which are mostly unaffected by these core issues that the core community has suffered from over the past few years.

And if it doesn't work at all? Shit happens.


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This situation was now resolved. Please do refer to this document here: https://doc.micr0.dev/s/yjVU8vCdc#

Micr0, AKA @[email protected], @[email protected], and micr0.dev has accused me of being a pedophile.

You may know Micr0 for making AltBot, for co-running the FediMC Minecraft Server [archive], or for just being another person on the Fediverse.

Over the past roughly 20 days, Micr0 has accused me of, and convinced the administration of wetdry.world that I am a pedophile, behind their closed doors. He has reached out to me only after I noticed and talked in public about passive-aggressive comments that Micr0 left in a groupchat we have shared membership in, and how I noticed I was suspended from the Fuzzies.wtf Mastodon instance.

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#revolt #discordAlternatives

This post is part of a series of posts about viable alternatives to discord. You can check the #discordAlternatives tag above for all blogposts in this series.
Next in the list of common recommendations is Revolt.

Revolt is a pretty young, centralized platform initially started as a hobby project by Insert sometime in (I believe) 2020 to see if they could build a clone of Discord. Pretty simple goals.

Over time it grew, insert had a couple more friends join for moderation and development, and now there is a small team working on it in their free time—including an Android app and soon an iOS app

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#matrix #discordAlternatives

This post is part of a series of posts about viable alternatives to discord. You can check the #discordAlternatives tag above for all blogposts in this series.

Matrix is, nowadays, one of the most recommended “Discord Alternatives”, especially if your audience resides on the Fediverse where one half will absolutely hate it, and the other much louder half will be those that believe in Matrix for one reason or another.

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you really should


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Background by Maxim Tajer (unsplash), logo belongs to Discord Inc.

Recently, news about Discord looking into an initial public offering made the rounds online.

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So, in my infinite quest of hopping between friends with little funds, I have learned to cherish the shitty devices that I have and make the best of them

This also means I've learned a trick or two about optimizing the resource usage of my laptop to make it...well, usable.

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Fedi, in the past few years, has gained quite a bit of traction; In just a few years it has grown from what seems like nothing to spanning over 13 million users, many of which call this their home

However, all of these projects in the field generally have stuck to one goal, which I feel is short-sighted – even as someone that helps with a tumblr copycat – everyone just kinda goes for “Open-Source/Federated alternative to [Social Media Site]”

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REALMS moved to @[email protected]!!


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I am trying out this WriteFreely instance. Primarily because I could not find a better one but the domain kinda sounds like waf at the end and @[email protected] posted on it before so surely it'll be fine

Anyways, blogposts will probably go here from now on, mirrored to a git repo when I get around to it


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