You can set it to use object storage instead, much cheaper

My friend group has already moved to Matrix, and we’ve been happy

I Will never understand why the open source community hates the GPL license. Maybe they just haven’t seen themselves how big corporations taking advantage of free individual independent developers. I still remember the core.js developer, whose code is in pretty much every giant framework out there basically begging for any sort of income for his work while his family was going hungry in Eastern Europe. Angular, react, all major frameworks absolutely depend on it and never gave them anything.

As someone who has done both, programmer most recently, and has respect for both, you’re being very judgy. Both are difficult enough jobs without other tech fields bringing each other down.

If you’re a programmer and don’t see what is wrong…

Others have said it here better than I could, but I was the same way but for probably other reasons. My mother lost her home, not due to misfortune but because she couldn’t manage her finances. Quick splurge items and random ideas too priority over long term stability. Anyway, so I thought mortgages and loans were scary too.

Then I got educated on them. They’re not scary if you understand what you’re doing. Loans are not scary, they are tools to achieve your goals. A tool can be extremely useful to accomplish your goal, but you also shouldn’t reach for that tool every time either.

If your goal is to own your home, a mortgage is a great tool if you know what you’re doing. Learning about interest rates, how they’ll affect you, sitting down and looking at your long term finances and knowing what you can manage paying every month for the forseeable future is how you can calculate what works for you.

Where it gets scary is when people walk in, not knowing what they can afford and taking everything the bank will give them, not knowing how much they’ll be paying over time. That’s when things get predatory and scary. Knowledge is power as they say.

Now when I need a loan I go in, and I know what interest rate I want, what duration I want, and exactly how much I need, and the bank usually says yes. I’ve proven myself with my credit score to be a trustworthy person to lend to, and l can now usually get pretty decent terms.

Learn about finances, learn the math, and learn how you spend money. Once you get that knowledge it stops being so scary.

No, it’s not. Financing is a great tool, and used wisely and with knowledge of interest rates and total cost, can elevate you quite a bit in life.

This however is predatory lending, and it should not be used ever.

Impressive, if it’s true. Would be interesting to see. So far I’ve seen flux 2, which would require way more GPU! Han I have, and queen image which seems on par with flux 1. This could get me to finally up my pipeline

But that’s not decentralized. It’s the same as discord, only instead of a corporation now you have a server admin.

I completely support you moving off of Discord, and I completely support you setting up Matrix. I tried a lot, I think it has the most feature parity. That being said, the biggest thing I regret when setting it up is that I went with Synapse for my backend Matrix server, when there are others.

I’ve heard very good things about Conduit (https://conduit.rs/), mostly that it’s easier to stand up and easier to maintain.

Either way, I think it’s a smart move, and it’s worth the investment. It’s not the easiest to stand up, but operationally our communication should be our own. Expect trial and error, getting one piece up and running, then the next, and then the next. Celebrate small wins like “Today I got it running” and then “Today I got federation working”, and then “Now I have voice working!”. Otherwise it’s going to feel overwhelming.

I believe in the cause, so feel free to DM me if you have any questions, or send me a DM on Matrix :)

Oh, and a very useful tool - https://federationtester.matrix.org/

This will tell you exactly what is wrong with your federation.

Could be? Soon? People they’re already doing it! Do people really not think so?

I am zero surprised about this, and honestly expected it earlier. Sentiment analysis is incredibly simple. They get to claim “Oh we don’t read your messages, they’re private” but, AI isn’t reading your messages, no one reads them, but it does summarize into a nice, easy to search set of tags so they can easily hand up what you’re talking about to anyone who asks.

That’s too bad, that’s a hard line for me, it has to have the option of federation.

Also, so it’s a direct server, so it is centralized, there’s nothing decentralized about it

The I learned the hard way years ago that that the one thing the company doesn’t want is a loud employee. It doesn’t matter what the issue is, who it’s about, if I can get the company in trouble or put some in an awkward position they don’t want you.

That’s why HR is such a dangerous place to go, they’re not looking out for you, they’re looking out for the company. By going to HR at all. You just prove that you are someone who can and will speak out, which is bad for the company. Whether that’s complaining about a co-worker or something the company is doing, it doesn’t matter, it shades you in a negative light because you are willing to speak out

Decentralized (no abuse of power and doesn’t have a single point of failure)

There is a direct server though, is it federated? The readme doesn’t say it’s federated at all

Summarizing:

• it will now be impossible to unblur graphic imagery or adjust the content filter settings for your account until age verification is complete
• Age-restricted channels and servers will be inaccessible
• DMs from unknown users will be rerouted to a separate inbox
• No speaking on server stages

Which, all sounds fine. However, who defines all of these things? Who defines graphic imagery? Is it straight up porn? Is it a meme that has a naughty word in it? Is it anime? We have no idea.

Also as a server owner (who has moved everyone to Matrix now), I pretty much had to set my private server to age restricted, otherwise the server gets penalized if one of my users uploads something that is “graphic imagery” which again, is defined by them. The only safe way previously ways to say “Hey, you should be over 18 to join this” and then I’m not liable. I worry about a lot of servers taking the easy way and saying the same.

Neither do I, but from other platforms it’s only a matter of time until you’re prompted for it. You join a server where someone has posted something NSFW before, or the server admin “to be safe” set it to adults only, or they just clamp down on the definition of adults only. At some point I fully expect it’ll force me to.

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I understood that reference!

I’ve heard positive things about Dito, if I was doing it over again I think I’d start there

Best I’ve done is try to minimize the hassle by hosting myself, and giving a how-to guide. My group is small, I’ve been sitting down individually with them showing them how to migrate

Revolt (now Stoat) is an option, personally I don’t like it because there is no federation and it’s text-only.

I’m using Matrix, with Element, which does have encrypted voice chat if you set it up. I want federation because I don’t want my users to be locked into only my server. However, the bar for entry is higher.