Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks agoI’ve never tried Matrix but I’ve heard good things about it.
Comment on Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks agoI’ve never tried Matrix but I’ve heard good things about it.
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
It’s not as snazzy as Discord but it’s fully open-source and federated. So everyone can run their own server (I do, too). If you don’t care about running your own you can just sign up at https://app.element.io/ .
It also offers many “bridges” to other protocols, like WhatsApp, Telegram, even Discord. Those are not quite as mature and mostly third-party provided but they generally work well.
There’s a really great ansible playbook for installing your own. If you would like to have the full bridged experience, beeper is probably best.
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Thanks! I’ll have to see if there’s Docker containers available. Ansible is definitely doable too, but I prefer Docker. I’ll stick it on the same server I’m running Lemmy and Mastodon on :)
Zworf@beehaw.org 5 weeks ago
Actually the ansible playbook creates a bundle of docker containers so you get the best of both :)
dan@upvote.au 5 weeks ago
Ahh… Interesting!
Do you know how much RAM it needs? I have a spare VPS with 9GB RAM - is that sufficient? I could run it in a VM on my home server instead, too.