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What is the current state of Matrix? (feddit.org)

submitted 11 months ago by majoru@feddit.org to c/selfhosted@lemmy.world

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Some years ago, I hosted my own matrix server for a few months. I'm an experienced self-hoster, but I remeber that Matrix was paticularly hard to host, requiring weird proxy rules, DNS adjustments, federation never worked reliably and push notifications never worked at all. I ditched the project soon because I also had no real use for it. However, I recently had some ideas where a Matrix server would be useful again. Has anyone attempted to install it recently and can tell me whether the situation has improved? Also, which server do you recommend? There still is synapse but I found it paticularly complicated to host. Dendrite is now archived and the current fork seems to be tuwunel which doesn't seem to be under very active development.

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[–] KiwiTB@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

https://hanez.org/document/why-matrix-sucks/

Use IRC.

[–] qtip@programming.dev 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I switched from IRC to matrix in 2018 specifically because I found mobile difficult.

I used the suggestion in your linked document by running irssi in a tmux session on a VPS I paid for, then using a bridge to an app on my phone. I found the experience to be cumbersome even for someone like myself (and even then irssi required reboots or else it would lose performance over time).

I wanted to use IRC for a family chat, but I couldn't possibly convince my friends and family to go through the same client setup as I did.

In my opinion there are use cases that either IRC or Matrix would be preferred over the other (not to mention other self hosted communication software).

[–] Atherel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

Just host thelounge, its a web based irc client with integrated bouncer.