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What is the current state of Matrix? (feddit.org)

submitted 3 months ago by majoru@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Some years ago, I hosted my own matrix server for a few months. I'm an experienced self-hoster, but I remeber that Matrix was paticularly hard to host, requiring weird proxy rules, DNS adjustments, federation never worked reliably and push notifications never worked at all. I ditched the project soon because I also had no real use for it. However, I recently had some ideas where a Matrix server would be useful again. Has anyone attempted to install it recently and can tell me whether the situation has improved? Also, which server do you recommend? There still is synapse but I found it paticularly complicated to host. Dendrite is now archived and the current fork seems to be tuwunel which doesn't seem to be under very active development.

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[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Matrix seems to work well. I'm on a smallish non-profit server. I regard it as the premium open-source step forward from IRC.

The worst problem is that there are really no channels that I care to follow.

[–] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 3 points 3 months ago

You might want to check out https://matrixrooms.info/, which is good for a search around. Some project communities also have offtopic rooms that are good to chat in. Even very small rooms can be very active.

[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

As the end use my biggest gripe with Matrix is with voice communications, it’s almost as if you sneeze wrong you’ll lose connection to the voice group, screen sharing is horrible, no audio and the window is not adjustable, cant even make it full screen.

Now they’re reducing people’s usage by putting in a subscription and locking certain features, at least on the home server.

While I am disappointed they did at least take my advice and prevent Windows Recall from capturing people’s messages.

[–] source_of_truth@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

https://github.com/spantaleev/matrix-docker-ansible-deploy

[–] tired_n_bored@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Synapse was too heavy on my resources. Moved to XMPP despite I like Matrix more.

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