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Swirly @swirly@ice.swirly.moe
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I'm a simple pansexual femboy (he/they). I commonly compose music and mess around with technology, mostly old junk and such from thrift stores and dumpsters.
Proud (unpaid) intern at Architect Enterprises (architectenterprises.net).

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I release all of my posts (excluding boosts as those are other peoples' posts) under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International. To view a copy of this license, visit
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Okay, onto the bullshit everyone should know. Trans rights are human rights, black lives matter, AI sucks, everyone in the files should be punished (excluding the victims, duh), ICE sucks... I don't know what else to put here. Maybe at a time when I'm more hateful.
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@aslmx i dunno. snikket's website just felt... off to me. that and i dislike using docker in any form and that seemed to be the only form of installation.
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aaaaaaa
why do people keep giving anubis attention... it's a pile of slopcode thats hard to set up...
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ok onto the second portion
does anyone have any better, non-corporate-looking, non-slopcoded
clients than (not to imply that pidgin is any of those)? pidgin is great but it lacks a lot of features im not totally willing to give up, especially on xmpp with things like replies and reactions
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Ejabberd, Prosody, Openfire, Snikket.
ejabberd seems too corporatised for me...
openfire is less advanced than the others...
snikket has the same issue as ejabberd...
...which leaves prosody

time to see how much pain it takes to do this
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@gisgeek i'll take a look at all of these when i get the chance, thanks!
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it seems like ejabberd and prosody are the two main choices
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@laru @luna that first one is inevitable, same with flagship fedi/activitypub software instances

as for your second point, almost every client sends messages with a plaintext
body attached, if your matrix library only lets you read the formatted body that's the fault of the matrix library

the last one depends on the homeserver implementation, however some homeservers allow you to retrieve all messages at once, which is of course slow because its every single message from everywhere you are
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hm, surely i will not regret attempting to host an xmpp server...
anyone have any recommendations on what software to use?
did it with prosody
was not that hard
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@laru @luna i think the first one is more matrix.org homeserver moments than general matrix moments... i personally use the matrix homeserver of the group i work with, that being architectenterprises.net
as for dendrite bring out of support randomly that's a matrix organisation moment, which is honestly why i despise things the matrix org makes but it is what it is if the protocol itself works
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ai, call to action @thing i gave a singular upvote upthumbs
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if i were to buy moths.now and set up some fedi software on there, i wonder whether any moths would actually use it
cause theres already mothboys.now but its gotosocial...
registration is open but it only accounts for a portion of the moth population
eh, just a thought
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idk im just rambling
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im not surprised that iceshrimp.net is as used as it is
it was actually very easy to set up, easier than akkoma even apart from having to do db fuckery on my own
hell, i can even use akkoma's ui for this shit, which is the main reason i was using akkoma anyway

then again, i said this about every other fedi software ive used... who knows, maybe its only a matter of time until i switch
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@mateusz6768 @luna sorry the what

well now i dont wanna even consider fluxer
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@luna
currently searching for good alternatives
i personally use matrix and find it to be a good substitute
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it just uses the default one from the browser... nice
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i never checked, whats the audio player like in the iceshrimp.net ui
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@meowtechfoundation @link
IP for a mail server, needs it’s own IP because OVH may block IPs with bad email reputation, and one may never know when that happens.
ah... epic ovh moment
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@meowtechfoundation @link do you need an ip for every service?
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i wish i could use fedi from my wii u for some reason