Docs would be helpful, I can’t find much of anything, I think you honestly did the best writeup.

Star Trek quotes is hilarious and perfect!

I’m not sure your level of understanding of cloud infrastructure, so let me know if you need me to go into more detail. Disk storage, like what is attached to a VPS/VM is very expensive, and it’s the 100GB drive you have attached. What is much cheaper is object/blob storage, known in AWS and most cloud providers as S3. This is far far cheaper for many reasons.

Matrix (and really I should say Synapse, what I use) can be configured to save images, photos, uploads, etc to save to a blob storage “bucket” instead of disk. So you can lower your disk from 100 down to something lower because your data is stored in blob storage (fully encrypted). For synapse, the module you need is here: https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider

Thank you! I’m going to start playing with this and see what I can figure out! I’ll be referencing this frequently!

How do you do that, I’m very interested! Also good to see you Admiral!

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

Look, I’ll be very real with you. If you’re being honest, and I have no idea if you are or not. Whether or not you’re intending to come off that way, you are coming off that way. It does not matter at all what you intended, it’s how it’s perceived by everyone, and right now, you are not perceived well. You do not come off as neutral.

See all of this would be true if we were in some academic argument, but you’re not. You’re not arguing for your case or facts, you’re arguing against people. People who get to define their own rules for their spaces. So, in your own vernacular, if you choose to “fallate anyone’s junk after doing my own research”, which we all know means “I want to be inflammatory and annoy people”, then you’re going to have consequences, because us people don’t want to hear it.

So, how to put this to someone who thinks we’re having some grand debate.

• Mods/admins created a space where they do not want things like racist terms.
• You used racist terms in said space and tried to incite arguments.
• Thus, mods removed your post.
• QED.

If you want to do all of that, go start your own Lemmy instance. There you can walk around and make whatever rules you want and argue with all the people who join.

Your fallacy would be correct if what I was saying was wrong and couldn’t be backed up with evidence. Your title used a racist term, and then your post itself was meant to be divisive.

If you want to say I pre-judged you, let’s look at your post history.

4/8 of your posts have been removed. Most of the time when something is removed you come here, complain, and then it also gets removed. You have a grand total score of -70 votes on your posts. Of your 296 comments, you’ve received roughly a 1:1 ratio of downvotes to upvotes (more downvotes btw). You are controversial to say minimally.

You poisoned your own well. Your trust is near zero here. What you do post is inflammatory, and we can tell.

Edit, because you edited, your choice of phrasing is exactly why you get removed. You choose to go out of your way to be polarizing, and these are the consequences.

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.

You used racist language and were trying to bait everyone into an argument, aka trolling. YDI

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.

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

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

I’m sure the community will rally together to save their community against the invaders.

Oh, you mean helping each other and being empathetic are liberal traits, and they only value looking after themselves even when their community depends on cooperation? Well, I’m sure they can each farm their own food.

nerd herd

I understood that reference!

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

Can confirm, I host Matrix (homeserver synapse) and Element. Voice is a pain to get set up but I hear there are other matrix services which will do this for you easier. It’s a process though. You can get text chat up in a day, voice is going to be a bit after that, a lot of tinkering.

Even if he is, it is not mind occupying work out there. I grew up in farm country. He had a radio on, how much you want to bet it was tuned to the local conservative talk radio constantly?

Feel for him. Not really. But dude got wrapped up in hype of hating the people he hates, didn’t even realize he was included in exactly who he was cheering for hatred to come to.