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Any recommendation to get started with matrix? Like use cases, featured clients, interesting public chats, or similar? To someone whose close environment does n

Any recommendation to get started with matrix? Like use cases, featured clients, interesting public chats, or similar? To someone whose close environment does not use it

zeroping 5y ago
The reference clients and server are a good place to start. They're the place to find all the protocol features implemented and well supported. The Element client (desktop/web/android) is electron-based https://element.io/get-started https://element.io/get-started Synapse is the server to start with https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ From there, what's the first place to find people to chat? I don't have a good answer there, but the 'spaces' functionality is a nice way to group communities.
- preya2k 5y ago
  I assume you meant the “spaces” functionality to group rooms?
  - zeroping 5y ago
    D'oh, yes I did. Thanks.
galbar 5y ago
I started by setting up a synapse server (with docker it is quite easy, although reading all the config options takes some time). I already had a server with docker services running there, so deploying an extra container was easy for me. I started trying it, with the Element.io apps and convinced a techy friend to try it. Since then, he set up his own server and we have a group of friends that we mainly communicate through matrix. Also, I try to use it with my parents. They want to use it, but end up writing to me through WhatsApp out of muscle memory. After some time I started looking at public rooms that I'd be interested into, available in matrix.org or matrix.feneas.org. The easiest way to start, though, is to create a free account in the matrix.org public server using the webapp[0]. [0]: https://app.element.io/#/register https://app.element.io/#/register
kiliankoe 5y ago
If you're looking to get started using Matrix, but have no contacts to bootstrap it with, you can look into bridges to other networks or using something like beeper.com with hosted, well-supported bridges. Disclaimer: I work @ Beeper
callahad 5y ago
As for interesting public chats: Quite a lot of the free software community is on Matrix these days; check out projects you're interested in and see if they have a Matrix link. For example, the NixOS community has a curated Matrix Space linked from https://nixos.org/community/index.html https://nixos.org/community/index.html with lots of rooms to explore. GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla also have a significant presence on Matrix.
ptman 5y ago
I'm partial to the guide I wrote https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/ https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/
mxuribe 5y ago
The comments that others suggested would be good, or of course there's also the "Discover Matrix" page: https://matrix.org/discover/ https://matrix.org/discover/
unbad505 5y ago
I started with element and matrix.org, now I use element on IPFS and host the conduit homeserver behind a caddy reverse proxy.

Any recommendation to get started with matrix? Like use cases, featured clients, interesting public chats, or similar? To someone whose close environment does not use it

zeroping 5y ago

The reference clients and server are a good place to start. They're the place to find all the protocol features implemented and well supported. The Element client (desktop/web/android) is electron-based https://element.io/get-started https://element.io/get-started Synapse is the server to start with https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/ From there, what's the first place to find people to chat? I don't have a good answer there, but the 'spaces' functionality is a nice way to group communities.

preya2k 5y ago
I assume you meant the “spaces” functionality to group rooms?
- zeroping 5y ago
  D'oh, yes I did. Thanks.

galbar 5y ago

I started by setting up a synapse server (with docker it is quite easy, although reading all the config options takes some time). I already had a server with docker services running there, so deploying an extra container was easy for me. I started trying it, with the Element.io apps and convinced a techy friend to try it. Since then, he set up his own server and we have a group of friends that we mainly communicate through matrix. Also, I try to use it with my parents. They want to use it, but end up writing to me through WhatsApp out of muscle memory. After some time I started looking at public rooms that I'd be interested into, available in matrix.org or matrix.feneas.org. The easiest way to start, though, is to create a free account in the matrix.org public server using the webapp[0]. [0]: https://app.element.io/#/register https://app.element.io/#/register

kiliankoe 5y ago

If you're looking to get started using Matrix, but have no contacts to bootstrap it with, you can look into bridges to other networks or using something like beeper.com with hosted, well-supported bridges. Disclaimer: I work @ Beeper

callahad 5y ago

As for interesting public chats: Quite a lot of the free software community is on Matrix these days; check out projects you're interested in and see if they have a Matrix link. For example, the NixOS community has a curated Matrix Space linked from https://nixos.org/community/index.html https://nixos.org/community/index.html with lots of rooms to explore. GNOME, KDE, and Mozilla also have a significant presence on Matrix.

ptman 5y ago

I'm partial to the guide I wrote https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/ https://matrix.org/docs/guides/free-small-matrix-server/

mxuribe 5y ago

The comments that others suggested would be good, or of course there's also the "Discover Matrix" page: https://matrix.org/discover/ https://matrix.org/discover/

unbad505 5y ago

I started with element and matrix.org, now I use element on IPFS and host the conduit homeserver behind a caddy reverse proxy.