<whitequark[cis]>
you are now a moderator of the matrix room
<ToyKeeper>
I have synapse and some bridges running on an old box from 2010 with 8 GiB RAM, under lxc with several other VPSes running, and it still has about 6 GiB free. A matrix homeserver doesn't have to be a memory hog.
<Ariadne>
my problem is that every time i’ve tried to deploy a home server, it dies within like 3-6 months
<Ariadne>
meanwhile irc is pretty much set it and forget it
<Ariadne>
i prefer my infrastructure to be low maintenance
<ToyKeeper>
Yeah, low maintenance is really important. I've had dircproxy running without issues for a quarter of a century, and it "just works". But Matrix seems like it'll need non-trivial maintenance every few months.
<arraybolt3>
Can I just say as a Matrix user, moderator, and previously advocate, Matrix stinks in so many ways? :P
<arraybolt3>
I like IRC. I kind of feel like the "can't be contacted if I'm not online" thing is a feature, not a bug, and the fact that it's solid, fast, and light is really, really nice.
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<ToyKeeper>
I like IRC too. But I want to get all my chat systems logged in one place in one format, and accessible with one client. And last I checked, a personal Matrix server with bridges seemed like the most practical way to accomplish that.
<ToyKeeper>
... though if there's a simpler self-hostable solution now, that be even better.
<arraybolt3>
I've just come to terms with the apparent (at least to me) fact that unified chat systems are a pipe dream. The bridges are flaky to all get out, about the only one that works halfway well is IRC-to-Matrix and that one doesn't hardly work either.
<arraybolt3>
(well, there's also Telegram to Matrix and Discord to Matrix I've seen work but Telegram integration is flaky too)
<arraybolt3>
I just have IRC, Matrix, Google Chat, Delta Chat, and email, and I live with it. Oh, I also sometimes have as many as three Matrix clients open at once for managing multiple accounts because Element lacks multi-account support and every other client is, uh, user-unfriendly or glitchy/crashy.
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<f_|cis>
<whitequark[cis]> "you are now a moderator of the..." <- huh, ok thanks I guess :p
<f_>
ToyKeeper, arraybolt3_: I found xmpp to sort of work if you want one app for everything
<f_>
for example whatsapp, when it's not getting disconnected because facebook, works pretty well. I had an XMPP-Matrix bridge too and that worked fine, though it did make my server crash because of OOM several times
<f_>
I used a 3rd-party XMPP-IRC bridge before to serve as an alt connection and also for talking on IRC from my phone and it just worked with no issues whatsoever