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  • Questions about Matrix Chat

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  • It is a commercial entity, and they will never evolve the matrix standards to include an Activity Pub interface. Sadly, since they are the ones approving the additions do matrix standards, they also have the power not toke that to be.

    So, yes, while matrix is open, is not really open in the sense that anyone can add pieces to the underlying.

  • Questions about Matrix Chat

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  • Where did I ever wrote that matrix is not open? I think you misunderstood me

  • Questions about Matrix Chat

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  • Yes Matrix is not compatible with AP. Just a fact, not a judgment.

    Well, matrix is supposedly open but it's driven by the company behind it and there is no real way to further advance the standards without the company agreement. The foundation is more a facade than e steering committee, not even the source code is managed by the foundation.

    But again, I use matrix myself so I am not shitting matrix, just pointing out some stuff about it.

  • Questions about Matrix Chat

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  • The foundation is just a placeholder, everything is governed by the commercial entity behind Element and Synapse. Not good IMHO, but this is what matrix is.

  • Questions about Matrix Chat

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  • Matrix is not fediverse. Matrix is created and controlled by a private company, which mask itself as acceptable by using a placeholder "foundation" that's just a puppet.

    Luckly matrix is based on a bunch of "standards" so there are alternative implementations like Continuwuity (also written in rust and pretty fast) instead of Synapse, Fluffy Chat instead of Element-x and so on.

    But no, matrix is not fediverse, it's not compatible and will never be (my opinion) because the commercial entity behind the matrix standards has no intention to open up that much the matrix ecosystem.

    Yeah, it's not that good as it seems. Still, I believe it's the best option and the most mature.

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    Lemmy.world Admin MrKaplan rages over anti-Zionism banning users and defederating instances

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  • What's funny?

    And no, its like download a docker compose and run it. Indeed, you need a domain, not for everybody, but definitely not that hard at all.

    I wasn't being funny, this is exactly what I think: your personal instance is the only way to prevent censorship. Yes it takes skills and effort, sorry man but that's the way, nothing is free, in the sense of effortless.

  • Wrote a nixos module to fetch emails and serve them via IMAP

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  • I self host on my domain and on my renter hardware (not from home I mean) since probably 20 years. Changed ip a few times due to provider replacement and rented hardware upgrade, but I never had issues whatsoever, at least serious.

    Whoever complains about self host mail didn't setup dkim/dmarc/SPF/proper DNS entries or is using some residential address pool, because really nobody filters you that much. I also self host mail for newer domains and again never had issues.

    I had issues with an idiot sending spam from his account (relatives, the worst) but I banned him and unblocked my domain once, never had the issue twice.

    I recently updated my wiki with all my instructions here https://wiki.gardiol.org/doku.php?id=email%3Astart

    I wrote it for me, to remember what I did, but thought it might be useful for others. All bare metal, no containers, you learn what you do.

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    Lemmy.world Admin MrKaplan rages over anti-Zionism banning users and defederating instances

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  • And this is why I run my own instance and I get to decide who to ban and who to follow. Do you know guys that with your own single user instance you don't get to see in your "all" feed anything but what you actually subscribed? So no need for bans, defederation or censorship.

  • Wrote a nixos module to fetch emails and serve them via IMAP

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  • Is pop3 still a thing?

    Anyway, more clear now, can make sense (not to me, I self host my mail on my VPS)

  • Wrote a nixos module to fetch emails and serve them via IMAP

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  • Sorry, not clear to me what this accomplishes. Yes you buy a domain and use it for your email, then if and when you switch, you also migrate imap-to-imap all your email.... It's a pretty easy thing to do and there are tools just for this purpose.

    Is this a script to do the same?

  • reminder to (test your) backup

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  • 3, 2, 1.... Test the backup!

    ... Is that the rule, right?

  • Hosting own instance

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  • I host my own Lemmy instance. Single user. I do it for owning my posts and comments, and to keep memory.

    Does that help the fediverse? I am not so sure. Probably many smallish instances are better than a lot of individual instances or a few big ones.

  • Radicale v3.7 collection sharing?

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  • I have been using the link to share.... Its not a weird thing, just a filesystem link between radicale users...

    But if now it's easier to manage, good to know... Let us know!

  • IPv6

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  • Update : my ISP does not provide GUA.... So, whatever. Stick to IPv4 for the time being, no need to get complicated with IPv6 nat when I already have IPv4 nat working fine.

    I actually have two ISP and one does support ip 6 with a GUA and that's where I got confused.... Unfortunately, it's the one providing 20mb/sec FTTC that I use only for backup. The main one, the one providing 300mb/sec over FVA does not.

  • Would this work?

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  • Mostly because my files stay on my hardware, on my network. In case of internet down/broken/filtered I can still access all my data. That is one of the points of self hosting. Not the only one, granted, and maybe not even the most critical, but having the opportunity, better to host on your turf.

    Go ahead the self host on a cloud somewhere, nothing bad about that! Have fun, enjoy, learn and be digitally independent is the core of self hosting.

  • Would this work?

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  • Ok, i misunderstood!

  • Would this work?

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  • Why use an external cloud? While its technically still kind of self its not self hosted anymore IMHO. You would still be running your services, but on somebody else, rented, hardware. While I do the same for a few services (like email), i wouldn't suggest it for general services that you want to reside on your turf (like immich, music, 'arrs, passwords, whatever)

  • IPv6

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  • How do I find out if the ISP is handling me a single address or a /64 or whatever?

  • IPv6

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  • Mm no, not using dyndns. I am missing IPv6 support on the LAN side... But I have it on the wan side