did he not try stoat? he just put a bunch of question marks there.
I'd have thought if that was the case it'd be left out of the rankings.
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I did. It isn't a viable selfhosted alternative atm unless you want to do actual dev work
If we're referring to the article in the link, being self-hosted didn't seem to be a hard requirement, merely that the app is a potential alternative.
You're correct. I think a lot of folks are looking for something decentralized/self-hostable to avoid the lock-in disaster that Discord has created, at least, I am. And I have found a dearth of alternatives! Good article, though.
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How many of these have moderation issues? Like, unwanted content uploads and stuff. How many expose you to accidentally hosting illicit content?
That's their "safety" category in his rankings. They talk about moderation tools and risks like bad actors posting illicit content quite a bit, actually.
Wow, so signal ranks second worst in “safety” with a 2. While discord has a 4.
So it’s worse than discord at dealing with unwanted CSAM uploads? What a wild ranking system this guy has.
Tangential but figure eyes are probably on here:
Any good guides or discussions for setting up and running Matrix in a VPS? Been thinking on and off I should do that for a few months now (and lack of account migration means I either start with my own domain or forever use a generic).
Matrix ansible deployment script
should also look into conduit or one of its siblings, normal synapse is a dog to run