The whole article was AI written, the headings the "voice" scream AI

It 100% is. That’s a Claude-ism if I ever saw one.

I read too much AI slop for a living to know.

I was using a etke as a hosting service for a while but it was a bit expensive and I wanted more control. I set it up on my homelab with a VPS running a reverse proxy and like it a lot more. I believe I deployed it with someone's Ansable playbook I found on github. Make a matrix.org account and play around with it. I hate the Element client though.

Public atm. The plan is to get ours.

I agree with Matrix Sucking, it needs very heavy work on both frontend and backend implementations to be taken serious, that's why I stopped pushing it to my friend groups, the people I convinced to join ended up needing features it just doesn't support yet, like an actual permission system instead of the numeric based > x style, or actual custom emote capability that isn't a patchwork decided by the software and the huge barrier of getting started. People don't want to have to pick through 30 different frontends to find one that works perfectly for a server.

Matrix works amazingly for the techies, or for people who want a limited IRC style feature set. But for for the casuals who are used to what discord provides, it just isn't a good competitor. It's complicated to get going, isn't unified and lacks features. Most people I have tried to suggest it have bailed due to that not long after joining.

XMPP being difficult though? I hard disagree. It's well maintained, it's super established, and for the most part unlike matrix whom decided frontend needed to make decisions on feature-sets, everything on XMPP is backend based. You have the same issues as matrix client wise but, for the most part client feature-sets are universal due to how long it's been out. I would push XMPP long before I go back to pushing matrix again. I have had better luck keeping/maintaining people on XMPP than I have with matrix.

That got me a good giggle, thanks

How many digits is your id?

The age verification isn't to check age, agree is r excuse they want to tie the account to you.

Gotta have massive surveillance in a fascist society.

While that is nice. Here in the kelptocracy not having a federal ID system is intentional and it has really slowed down the Nazis.

Everybody says the data isn't retained. It's very stylish, today, to claim to delete unused data, at least until it get breached

Even then, the prompt could be as easy as a "recheck" button that the user sees on age restricted media. Kind of like how their age verification bucket was going to be. Database side all they need to know is a boolean of true or false of if they are a minor or not. or /maybe/ a trinary (0,1,2) system if that wanted a distinguishment of < 13 13-17 and 18+ It doesn't have to check daily, it only has to check when the user requests access to age restricted stuff.

Genuinely the one issue I have with it at the moment. Had been using Matrix since early this year. Got Fluxer up recently when they got the beta apps. Shut my matrix server down about a week later. It's just nicer. Missing some things like E2E (for now) but my friends hated the additional step of having to put in that decrypt phrase anyway. Fluxer is easy and incredibly familiar out the box. Gonna keep my eye on Matrix clients though, but neither Element, Cinny, nor FluffyChat impressed.

Can't you specify instance when logging into a canary client?

yep! you can even turn on a notification sound for messages in the current channel while the window is focused

That can be solved with a bouncer. The bouncer stays connected and loads chat history, when you do connect. :)

IRC is older than World Wide Web, and unfortunately there wasn't as much innovation over years.

It was designated for a live chat so thought of also storing history and replay it didn't make sense then (the reasoning was that if you needed to send something that's not live, why not use email?)

Though people come up with own adhoc solutions like for example mentioned bouncer, some networks also had memo service where you could leave a message and there were also bots storing channel's log.

If features like these are important to you, I didn't think you will be happy with IRC, adding them would require rearchitecting the whole thing.

You can see for example slack doing it (it is heavily influenced by IRC although it evolved so much that maybe that is less visible now)

I didn't have a chance to play with it yet, but I heard Matrix could be the successor to IRC.

Nothing against IRC, I spent years on it and loved it, but it isn't great if important features for you are things like chat history when you were offline, embedding pictures in chat, threads, audio/video chat etc

The things where IRC still rules is: simplicity, very low resource requirements, and no accounts need, just pick a nick and you are in (this is also why keeping history for each user is so hard to add, when servers didn't really handle accounts.)

Yes, I agree. No need to buy nitro, no gif spam, no emoji spam, not relying on one corporations good will. It is indeed much better ;D

Well, turns out, I cant send messages because I'm a "very new account or very low reputation" :D I guess I'll share here, mods can delete the comment if this sort of promotion is not allowed :)

The server address is irc.inthemansion.com port: 6697

Web chat can be found on the front page here https://inthemansion.com/

Join #lobby and say a greeting :)

My account is too young to be sending private messages, so I'll share the details here:

irc.inthemansion.com port: 6697 #lobby is the main channel

Element.

They installed "Mathrix" and are now in a someone's botmining network /s