decentralisedog

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by decentralisedog 6y ago
You might need to look at https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider#re...
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
Matrix has always supported "Guest" accounts, where a user can immediately join a room and start talking in there with a generated user_id. They have limitations, but for the "get going straight away" factor it was quite
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
You might be interested in https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse-s3-storage-provider , which provides S3 storage options for Synapse. I personally run https://github.com/turt2live/matrix-media-repo&
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
While Matrix definitely tries to appeal to IRC users, it's absolutely not just a IRC replacement. It's been a conscious decision from Day 1 that history is important given that the default for any messaging system today is to stor
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
I've never used the feature on Matrix because as you say, it doesn't really apply. Matrix (or really Element here) doesn't require you to use an identity server at all, so I don't really think it invalidates the protocol
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
Yep, it exists as https://p2p.riot.im/ ! The team is making tons of progress including the new pinecone project. It regularly gets talked about in https://matrix.org/blog/posts if you want to keep up to
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
So the good news here is we're working on "implementation guides" which are basically developer friendly documentation on how to do X rather than a raw technical spec. I don't recall if it's actually hosted anywhere
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by decentralisedog 6y ago
The short term plan is to replace the existing (rather rubbish) Gitter<->Matrix bridge with a fully featured bridge that seamlessly bridges between Gitter and Matrix. The long term plan folding gitter.im features into Element and Gitt
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by decentralisedog 7y ago
Mozilla will no doubt use their own domain name, and would have the option to go self hosted if they wish to. Moving synapse databases around isn't too difficult, and certainly Modular.im would be able to provide the data on request.
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by decentralisedog 7y ago
It's mentioned half-way down the blogpost ( https://hackernoon.com/what-does-it-mean-to-be-an-open-start... ) >There’s no official definition yet, and the Oxford dictionary weren’t available for comment, so let’s writ