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Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I've seen in this thread:
| Fewer Letters | More Letters |
|---|---|
| DNS | Domain Name Service/System |
| SSD | Solid State Drive mass storage |
| SSO | Single Sign-On |
| VPN | Virtual Private Network |
| nginx | Popular HTTP server |
7 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 7 acronyms.
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Love and use this!
Solid, fast, amazing experience.... A breeze to setup as well.... Quite another thing than Synapse.
I don't mind the name. It's pride month so I figure the community would turn the silly up a notch.
Im not a tech person but, I'm gonna try it out. Thanks OP.
I thought this was an ad, then I remembered that I was on lemmy, and I got sad because this is an ad
Well thanks for at least explaining what it is, but isn't Matrix already self hostable? Anyway what's wrong with IRC?
Matrix is a protocol, not a software. Continuwuity is one of the few servers for this protocol.
Does it work for non-furries(fleshies?)?
I was under the impression that they preferred to be referred to as 'skinnies'. We are all flesh, after all... well except protogen...
Matrix's algorithm is fundamentally broken. I guess it works if you only talk to people you know won't abuse it, but otherwise it's easy to split rooms or even re-write their history if you want to...
Do they have MAS support yet? I kinda need my single signon :p
I don't understand why people need SSO.
Every place I've every worked that had SSO had an outage, and then nobody could log in to anything.
SSO moar leik single point of failure amirite?
yeah same, I don’t understand why people need DNS. Every place I’ve ever worked at that used DNS had an outage, and nobody could get into anything