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> And yet setting a full Matrix stack requires days of work and endless maintenance. This is not true. People, don't let this FUD scare you. My home server ha
by remirk 6y ago
> And yet setting a full Matrix stack requires days of work and endless maintenance.
This is not true. People, don't let this FUD scare you.
My home server has been running for more than a year, was easy to setup (reading documentation took the most time) and takes little maintenance. Just apt update && apt upgrade.
Edit: and even if reading the documentation takes you 'days of work', you can follow a video of the server being setup in 30 minutes, including a jitsi instance for video conferencing: https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-communication-service-with-matrix-and-jitsi/ https://matrix.org/blog/2020/04/06/running-your-own-secure-c...
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoThe last time I looked into it - it required: - buy a VM - buy a domain - configure DNS - apt-get install - fiddle with SSL certificates - debug out a memory leak bug - ask upstream and be told to use an unstable alpha release - implement a workaround - start investigating bridges for IRC, Slack, Telegram - give up In 2020 we should expect something like Briar: - install Briar on your ws / phone. There is are no servers. Done.
- remirk 6y agoWell you must have has a real bad experience. That's unfortunate indeed and I understand your frustration. It is not representative though. You do need a server and a domain name, but that isn't out of place when hosting internet based services like a chat server.
- eeZah7Ux 6y agoThe technology to run a low bandwidth protocol over onion services has been around for 10+ years. That avoids most of the need for domain, DNS configuration, SSL and SSL certificates. A centralized chat server e.g. IRC runs on a raspberry. Briar, as I said, runs without servers and provides also blogs and forums.
- ptman 6y agohttps://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/ https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/