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Giving Up on Element & Matrix.org (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 19 points 1 year ago (9 children)

For me Matrix is fine, I can use IRC, Whatsapp and Discord with it. But Element is not my cup of tea, especially with Firefox as it doesn't play any videos other users are sharing. The same videos work fine with Cinny.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    I can use IRC

    The fact that many Discord and IRC channels (servers?) block Matrix connections has drastically reduced its usefulness for me. When I was running my own Matrix server, I could have gotten around it by using a puppet, but Synapse is such a hog I had to shut it down, and most of the IRC rooms I want to use don't allow Matrix proxies.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    The IRC (Biboumi) and Discord bridges (slidge.im) for XMPP work still fine and running your own server is super lightweight.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (6 children)

    running your own server is super lightweight.

    Not IME. Are you running Synapse? Gigabytes of disk usage and memory leaks requiring restarts.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I've been running the same matrix instance since ubuntu 18.04lts, just upgraded the virtual machine along the ride, so that has to be +6 years it's been running 24/7.

    I have not once rebooted my server due to performance reasons (like a mem leak). And like last 4 years I've ran the instance virtualized on a hp thin client, lately on a hp t640.

    While I understand the criticism towards synapse being a complex and slow, and element being slow-ish, I don't feel justified saying synapse would need any restarts in general. At least I have never restarted it in 6+ years and my instance has been working without those required restarts.

    Yeah, I miss the irc, too. I still use it via my matrix instance.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I've never had to reboot the server; I had to restart Synapse because if Memory leaks.

    Are you using any bridges?

    Anyway, it got too expensive to run my own, so I went back to Matrix.org. Now I'm mostly back on IRC except for a couple of rooms. IRC stinks, but Matrix has been nothing but a decade of pain.

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