eTomte

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by eTomte 10mo ago
I've been running synapse on a small VPS for the past few years. I got some of the bridges working too. Def bumps along the way, but its still the daily driver for me and about five other people. Recently I spun up the new ESS Commun
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SmartTube has been disabled by Google Play(old.reddit.com)
4 points by eTomte 10mo ago|0 comments
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by eTomte 10mo ago
Is Keet Open Source? Last time I looked into it (admittedly a few years ago) it was not.
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by eTomte 10mo ago
I've had mostly good luck with Matrix too. Been self-hosting since 2022 and while there have been frustrations it has been pretty stable for basic chat.
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by eTomte 2y ago
I think that in order to really have free speech, you need to own the platform. Because your freedom of speech doesn't mean that anyone else is obligated to listen to it or provide you a platform. In that light, I think that peer to p
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by eTomte 2y ago
Quiet, Briar, and Keet are some other p2p chats
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by eTomte 2y ago
I'm a big fan of Matrix, and run a small homeserver for my family in friends. But if you really want to explore the frontiers peer to peer seems really intriguing because you don't need any server. https://tox.chat&#x
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by eTomte 3y ago
I'm a Matrix enthusiast, run my own homeserver and I've been playing around with Quiet today. It has nowhere near the features of Matrix at this point, but it is useable and I'm having fun with it, and I really look forward t
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by eTomte 3y ago
As someone who runs a small Matrix server I haven't hit a lot of the issues, mentioned, but I appreciate them being raised and hopefully matrix.org can address them. I'd also be interested in comparisons between Matrix and other O
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by eTomte 3y ago
A classic. I can remember first reading this when it came out and it blew my mind. :)
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by eTomte 3y ago
If you are either a current or former user of the vintage BBS system known as ISCABBS please help keep the history of this vintage computer platform alive by contributing your audio remembrances to the project.
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Iscabbs Oral History Project(iscabbs.rocks)
1 points by eTomte 3y ago|1 comments
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by eTomte 3y ago
No, you're right...that can be an issue. I had to configure my server to disallow large rooms and enforce some file size limits.
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by eTomte 3y ago
It might be expensive for an organization to host, but for individual / small groups it can be as low as $6/mo. I've been running a small Matrix server on a DigitalOcean droplet for years now, and the $6/mo plan has bee
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A Guided Tour of Iscabbs(iscabbs.rocks)
2 points by eTomte 3y ago|1 comments
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by eTomte 3y ago
ISCABBS is a telnet accessible BBS that has been in operation since 1989. It is the oldest continuously operating free online community on the internet.
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by eTomte 4y ago
whoops should have said "telnet to bbs.iscabbs.com" up there. ISCABBS isn't as big as it used to be but we still have a good 30 users online at any given time.
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by eTomte 4y ago
telnet to bbs.iscabb.com to sign up! If you don't have access to telnet you can also use a web front end to telnet in http://iscaclient.llabmik.net/
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by eTomte 4y ago
not the most elegant solution, but it did get me back into reading RSS feeds after having abandoned them for many years when Google Reader died.
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Iscabbs Still Exists(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by eTomte 4y ago|2 comments
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by eTomte 4y ago
I use maubot-rss to pipe the feeds into a Matrix chat room, where I read them with the Element client.