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I use Navidrome myself, and I still think it would be nice for people to know a little bit about the software in an update announcement post.

Seems like a very reasonable request, I don't grok the vitriol in your response.

Ooh, I'll tell them to try it out - looks cool, cheers!

Conduit sounds very exciting - but my synapse installation (and its concomitant database) is too old and big for me to make a switch to anything else just yet.

But I'm hoping Dendrite will one day allow me to migrate over - I don't like how one of my most mission critical programs is a Python program running out of a packaged venv. 😅

This is the correct answer, IMO.

I loved using XMPP back in the day, but I struggled talking with people who weren't on the same server as me because of spec and client variations.

While Synapse is a resource hog, it (and Element) - to a certain degree - does the job. Can't wait until sync v3 lands in the main server.

The only issue I have is with one friend who insists on deploying his own version of Synapse, but can't figure out coturn and - as a result - we can't voice chat properly.

Goddammit. Two steps forward, one step backward. 😅

Same here, my dude... Same here. Why does my back suddenly hurt?

Steam goes down for maintenance at this time every week.

Edit: Tuesdays ~3pm PST

This section of the tutorial you followed shows how you enable registration.

This section shows how you add a user.

The official Prosody documentation for adding users and opening registration can be found here.

I use Fantastical; pretty decent for an iOS App - if not a bit pricey.

Edit: As an important note, while I've used Fantastical for years, it's really only for the Mac ecosystem so I'm looking to move away from it.

Nowadays Morgen is my Calendar app of choice, but its iOS app isn't feature complete yep. It's fantastic on desktop, though.

I hope they continue to do good, but am also skeptical.

And, man, I miss the old Gravatar.

The not cool parts just relate to any sort of hosted bridge. If you don't trust them with decrypting messages on their end, then don't give them your data - there are no bridges capable of doing that, anywhere.

So it really comes down to "trust someone else with your data, or host it yourself"; and if you're - understandably - frustrated with those options blame companies like WhatsApp or Discord that make it nigh impossible to integrate their services with outside networks.

Functionally, these bridges just forward your content to a library acting like a headless client - there's no way to encrypt that as the reverse engineered clients are not libraries and need to take raw input. You can't end to end encrypt it as the client is one of the "ends".

As an example, the WhatsApp bridge uses WhatsApp web as a backend, and has all the limitations of WA web.

As a result, I find the expectations to be a bit unrealistic.

I am worried about that acquisition, to be honest.

I've been supporting them via Github sponsors for about a year, now - as I only use their open source software; I've no intention of touching the service or closed source client.

As a result, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was anxious about their new owners basically telling them "hey, why are you releasing all your bridges for free, anyway?"

Really hope that doesn't happen, as their bridges have been my primary communication channels for a long time, now. I love not having to keep WhatsApp or Discord installed on my phone.

Fair point, if you're just against the fact that they wrote a closed source client.

It's frustrating that closed source software exists, but in this context I'm (personally) okay with it as it funds the development of free software.