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Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects (drewdevault.com)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Servers & clients use too many resources. Because of this, most have centralized around Matrix.org which kind defeats the purpose.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Servers & clients use too many resources.

    Didn't XMPP solve that in, like, 1999?

    (Really, what is with devs and nu-protocols these days? Back in my days you could run a webhost on a potato)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    The did, but Matrix is coming to reinvent that while but by wasting resources trying to duplicate the state of everything at massive storage costs & without the extensibility because JSON.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    There's a Mozilla home server as well, so federation is working.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    That server is under the Matrix.org fleet. It’s like saying Edge isn’t Chrome.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    The server itself doesn't matter, you can migrate it to AWS or your own physical server if you oenn the domain

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    The server does matter when it comes to who is collecting all of the metadata, data, attachments. …And having that all that data centralized around a single entity is a problem.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    In this case that would be Mozilla, not the host

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Matrix.org hosts Mozilla’s Matrix server. Further, the way all data is synced to all servers means if someone with a Matrix.org ID joins your room (which is most users), all data is synced to the home server. Almost all of the data is in Matrix.org’s possession & with the servers being as expensive as they are to run, more orgs shutdown when popular causing users to flock to the mother instance.

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