That might be the case. And you might in fact be perfectly well intentioned (though, as you might have found this community isn’t, on average, very into closed source software).

On the project site, this post, your replies, I have read nothing that sounded like genuinely you. It all reads like marketing. Or, more precisely, as if you have a LLM write/rewrite your responses. This, to me, makes them feel incredibly disingenuous. You might just sound like that naturally. In that case, I’m sorry.

If you want to win over this community, a good avenue would probably be open sourcing your application and arranging for some form of donation.

Edit: Also, you didn’t state that it’s closed source in your first sentence?? Well, you did in the first sentence of the reply to the comment that called out there not being source code on the repo, but the cat was out of the bag at that time.

An unkind observer might suspect the goal to be having the aesthetic of an open source or at least source available project without actually being one.

Websites I use regularly:

• sites I write or maintain myself
• federated social media
• my bank (they have my ID already)
• code forges maintained by others
• a Swiss e-commerce platform, alibaba, local electronics retailers
• YouTube

I suppose such measures might affect retail sites and YouTube, but I can get the stuff I need locally, and being off YouTube, I’ll certainly have the time for it.

Huh, Authentik was what I used before Kanidm. Wasn’t anything wrong with it per se, but there where a lot of moving parts and complexity rhat didn’t really serve a purpose for me.

I thought about kubernetes or proxmox, but I don’t really see any reason to. All my containers are controlled via podman quadlets, and either run on a single machine locally, or on a VPS.

On how you want to slice up the hardware - I feel like there isn’t one right answer, and I’d do whatever feels most comfortable to admin for you. I feel like for homelab workloads, any half-reasonable setup should work fine, just make sure you have good backups.

On SSO - I have never tried Authelia, but am personally very enamoured with Kanidm. It’s very lightweight, and has pretty good default settings.

On reverse proxy - I personally use Caddy, but Traefik is good too, and can do more stuff out of the box. I just mount the certs I need readonly in the container of the service that needs them. Clunky, but works well enough for me.

I think you might have misread my comment. I was saying the feature only just gets to the same performance, while using it means having to deal with Windows.

If you mean the incompatibility of some anticheat titles - I think kernel level anticheat is an unmeritted level of system access, so I wouldn’t use them either way.

limitations of linux

I’d look at it the other way around - why go to a platform that has marginally worse performance, while also making you deal with the limitations of Windows.

If the people you want to have access have static, exclusive ip addresses. Which is pretty unusual, these days.

I mean, you can have a look at recent merged PRs. With proprietary engines, you just don’t know.

I’ll be interested to see their implementation, though it likely won’t replace matrix for me.

It is, and that makes it much better than Discord, but currently they’re mostly building another monolith on the central instance. Self-hosting doesn’t mean much if the communities are all on there.

I’ll wait for federation, hope it comes soon. Till then, I see more potential in Matrix.

In my eyes, the only sensible way of building such a platform at scale is having it be federated. Otherwise you can host a server - and if you’re unlucky, might need accounts on five servers to access all the groups you want.

If their federation implementation comes relatively prompt and is workable, that’s great. If not, it feels like a way to bootstrap a centralised alternative to discord. Pre-enshitification discord, but it’d again be up to a single entity whether it stays that way.

I don’t mind paying for hosting, but I don’t want to jump from one centralised platform to the next.

They are selling a subscription. It isn’t really a donation if you pay a set price for services.

I’d also hold out to see their federation implementation before considering them as viable as matrix.

They do seem better than stoat, though.

No, the red flag is being ‘self-hostable’, but trying to concentrate all your users in a central, non-federated, monetised instance.

Also, we cannot verify how long they where in development because they squashed their git commits. There’s usually no good reason to do that.

I host two homeserver, one on synapse and one on continuwuity, both pretty small (tens of users), but with users in lots of large rooms. The second one was significantly easier to set up, and uses a lot less resources.

Also, element and element X work, but aren’t great. It depends on the user, of course, but I don’t think you get people by giving them the ‘dumbed down’ version.

Isn’t fluxer partially LLM-coded according to the dev?

Meh, I actively use it. I get why it might be unintuitive to someone newly switching.

… I actually like being able to copy a website and middle clicking to open it. I don’t think it’s a problem, it just needs to be telegraphed to the user better, and togleable.

… sure. Nothing here is wrong, but there’s ways to try and mitigate that. And then it’s kinda an arms race, and vigilance.

Good as a general recommendation.

I also feel like the risk levels are very different. If it’s something that performs a function but doesn’t save/serve any custom data (e.g. bentopdf), that’s a lot easier to decide to do than something complicate like Jellyfin.

I do have public addresses for Matrix, overleaf, AppFlowy, immich because they would be much less useful otherwise. Haven’t had any problems yet, but wouldn’t necessarily recommend it to others.

I’d never host any stuff with “Linux ISOs” on a public adress, that seems like it’d be looking for trouble.