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I've been running synapse on a small VPS for the past few years. I got some of the bridges working too. Def bumps along the way, but its still the daily driver for me and about fiv…

Is Keet Open Source? Last time I looked into it (admittedly a few years ago) it was not.

I've had mostly good luck with Matrix too. Been self-hosting since 2022 and while there have been frustrations it has been pretty stable for basic chat.

I think that in order to really have free speech, you need to own the platform. Because your freedom of speech doesn't mean that anyone else is obligated to listen to it or provide…

Quiet, Briar, and Keet are some other p2p chats

I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't…

I'm a Matrix enthusiast, run my own homeserver and I've been playing around with Quiet today. It has nowhere near the features of Matrix at this point, but it is useable and I'm ha…

As someone who runs a small Matrix server I haven't hit a lot of the issues, mentioned, but I appreciate them being raised and hopefully matrix.org can address them. I'd also be in…

A classic. I can remember first reading this when it came out and it blew my mind. :)

If you are either a current or former user of the vintage BBS system known as ISCABBS please help keep the history of this vintage computer platform alive by contributing your audi…

No, you're right...that can be an issue. I had to configure my server to disallow large rooms and enforce some file size limits.

It might be expensive for an organization to host, but for individual / small groups it can be as low as $6/mo. I've been running a small Matrix server on a DigitalOcean droplet fo…

ISCABBS is a telnet accessible BBS that has been in operation since 1989. It is the oldest continuously operating free online community on the internet.

whoops should have said "telnet to bbs.iscabbs.com" up there. ISCABBS isn't as big as it used to be but we still have a good 30 users online at any given time.

telnet to bbs.iscabb.com to sign up! If you don't have access to telnet you can also use a web front end to telnet in http://iscaclient.llabmik.net/

not the most elegant solution, but it did get me back into reading RSS feeds after having abandoned them for many years when Google Reader died.

I use maubot-rss to pipe the feeds into a Matrix chat room, where I read them with the Element client.