Posting a 3 coming on 4 year old post, of course it's not going to be accurate any more. And that's for the points that aren't just fear mongering in the first place.

• Redaction exists and removes the contents of events, while keeping metadata needed for the functionality of the room.
• Any program can handily ignore deletion - back when I used discord I had a handy plugin to view deleted messages for moderation, for example.
• Badly behaving servers can behave badly and it will not affect correctly behaving ones, they will apply redactions as expected.
• "Room joins leaves, etc are permanently a part of the room's history" well yeah, that's expected. You can upgrade a room if you want to start from scratch there.
• We can now prevent spammers from ever entering the room with join gates, among other things - but if you're not running a big public community, then our antispam tech is probably completely unnecessary for you
• Currently, timeline ordering is defined by the server. Continuwuity uses a simple, understandable and secure scheme - it orders by the time your server receives messages.
• As per the above point, this doesn't affect Continuwuity
• That's a tradeoff of allowing public rooms with tens of thousands of people in the same app as end-to-end encrypted DMs. Good job Matrix isn't really meant to be a Signal competitor.
• this point was relevant... Four years ago. You'll only encounter issues if you're using a broken server or ancient client now.
• "Started trying to filter recently" god you can tell how outdated this is
• It defines it pretty damn strictly now, and this isn't an issue in practice for a very long time.
• Mmm yeah I don't think you're particularly likely to experience one of those in day-to-day usage.
• and this is false lol
• Ancient and fixed
• False. There are many ways to do this.
• I've never encountered this, and it's impossible in new rooms versions.
• Aand outdated by years again
• see above
• see above
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I'm not seeing Adobe acrobat in there, who knows how many other ports it's missing!

Higher spec than a lot of VPSs, you could run a lot of selfhosted software on it. Anything you can run on an old raspberry pi at least

If you're British you can just say continooity. American English speakers have to say contin-uwu-ity :3

We have over a thousand active deployments. We've got bugs, but we're working on them. I'd suggest joining our community rooms :3

A lot of the people reporting issues with Matrix being slow and resource heavy are reporting issues with Synapse, which is Element's big Python implementation. My Continuwuity instance, which is a server written in Rust, uses a fraction of a CPU and a total storage in the hundreds of megabytes. A few less features, but it has most of the ones people care about.

Only one of them plausibly hasn't, and that's because it's not got a multiplayer mode

A human doesn't have to cut any pieces off or inject any chemicals to be transgender.

Here are some of the things I self host that I haven't seen mentioned:

• Continuwuity is a chat server that talks Matrix, so you can join the chat rooms of a lot of open source projects or make end to end encrypted private chats
• Forgejo is a self-hosted code forge (github alternative) - very useful
• FreshRSS is a good one if you like to follow blogs, newsletters or pretty much anything 'news'
• Grafana plus VictoriaMetrics and/or Quickwit is very useful for keeping track of the health of all your services
• Homepage is a... homepage for all your services
• Stalwart gives you a mail server. Set it up for any other projects that need to send mail, or as a backup for your emails, contacts or calendars - it's the easiest way to set that up self hosted. Making it suitable as your main email may need more effort (delivery).
• Related to Continuwuity / matrix, you can set up the Mautrix collection of bridges, which let you bridge Discord, WhatsApp, IRC, telegram, and more into your matrix account or chats seamlessly.
• LMS (lightweight Media Server, not to be confused with Logitech Media Server) is an alternative to Navidrome that I find works better with my library tagging and ListenBrainz
• Speakr - audio transcription with diarisation. Very useful if you like to record meetings.

You may also want to look into MASH: https://github.com/mother-of-all-self-hosting/mash-playbook

Talon is closed source, What's available on GitHub is the community command set - effectively just configuration

They fixed this in version 0.19 pr #3872 (note that the cursor here is a way of hiding a post ID to continue from, as far as I can see).

Also, lame article? 😖