synapse

Question about @matrix federation...

I currently have a split domain setup with #synapse where my username is amd:amd.im but my server is located at matrix.amd.im

I am going to stand up a new homeserver that uses a subdomain, but I don't whether the new amd:matrix.amd.im user will show up with a bunch of encryption key errors or be seen as a new user.

What subdomain would you pick for your new #selfhosted #matrix homeserver if you were me?

Happy I Love Free Software Day! 💕

Unfortunately, this year I could not join nor organize any in-person celebration, BUT of course I want to share my gratitude to the many, countless #FreeSoftware services I don’t merely use, but actually depend on.

Last year, I decided to focus only on #YunoHost, because it would have been crazy to list all the projects I use and I love.

This time, even if I will most certainly forget someone, I am challenging myself to mention all the #LibreSoftware my life is powered by.

Without further ado, THANK YOU to:

@yunohost, for powering Nebuchadnezzar
@fedora, for running my beloved #Framework laptop
@frameworkcomputer, for designing and building repairable, #Linux-friendly and truly open hardware
@gnome and @GTK, for being just gorgeous
@calyxos (thus @LineageOS), for powering my #Fairphone5
#Obtainium, for making me directly download apps on my phone, and @fdroidorg for distributing them
#AuroraStore, for proxying the download of apps I am doomed to get from Google Play
@element, for developing #Synapse, even though the new proprietary Synapse Pro is VERY PROBLEMATIC AND DISAPPOINTING
#Fractal, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Matrix client ever
@signalapp, for keeping me connected with the people I love
@Mastodon, for also maintaining a feature-packed experimental fork (#GlitchSoc), that is what Pan runs
#Tuba and #Moshidon, for being the most beautiful and awesome #Mastodon clients ever
#Firefox, for still remaining the best possible #browser choice, despite #Mozilla’s governance messiness
@openstreetmap, for allowing us to find the right path, both literally and metaphorically!
@organicmaps, for being the simplest, cleanest, yet feature-rich #OSM client and navigation app
@protonvpn, for making me browse safely from/to anywhere in the planet and @protonprivacy #ProtonMail, for hosting my email, despite the latest alarming political statements…
@libreoffice, for allowing me to draft documents with ease, the last of which was my #CV
#LanguageTool, for preventing me from making embarassing spelling mistakes
@photoprism, for safely storing and indexing all my photographic memories, on Aby, and for providing stellar and friendly support too!
#Actual, for moderating the very likely risk of ending up completely broke, since it forces me to manage my finances consciously and coherently
@readeck, for storing and sorting ALL my varied and overwhelming inputs
@nextcloud, for storing and synchronizing my data, for its #calendar, its #tasks, and all its awesome apps
#Rustdesk, for preventing my friends and family members from going crazy, by allowing me to remotely connect to their devices and directly address the issues they have
#Listmonk, for sending out my newsletter
@eleventy, for powering all the websites I maintain, above all the virtual representation of my mind, and for being the only reason why I resist and try to continue learning #JavaScript
@forgejo, for giving us a chance to truly control and collectively develop the sources of our software, but most importantly @Codeberg, for RESISTING, RESISTING, RESISTING, despite the hatred and attacks nazi assholes throw at them
@musicbrainz for keeping music knowledge open and free, and @ListenBrainz for scrobbling the crazy music I listen to
The @fsfe, for promoting this celebration and fighting the good fight!

Lastly, but most importantly, the biggest thank you goes to all the free software libraries and dependencies the above mentioned #software are made of/built with, including #C, #JavaScript, #Python, #Rust, and all community-maintained programming languages.

I am super sorry if I forgot someone!

#OpenSource #ILoveFS #SoftwareFreedom #Fairphone #Android #LineageOS #FSFE #OpenStreetMap #PhotoPrism #LibreOffice #Readeck #Eleventy #11ty #GNOME #Signal #forgejo #Codeberg #MusicBrainz #ListenBrainz #MetaBrainz

🚨 owner of the #LATimes just invited the king of the crypto bros #MarcAndreessen, a man whose VC fund #a16z has backed innumerable scams in all shades of fraud (see: #Yotta and #Synapse most recently) in addition to companies that facilitate incredible amounts of Russian #moneylaundering to join the editorial board.

#KleptocracyIsComing

tweet: https://x.com/DrPatSoonShiong/status/1878263014497059135
more on a16z: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/of-tech-bros-and-trumpers

andreessen spewed so many outright lies on #JoeRogan a few weeks ago that it kind of spawned an entire cottage industry of line by line takedowns of his bullshit: https://universeodon.com/@cryptadamist/113603397835078618

seems like the kind of guy #journalism needs right now

#MarcAndreessen #LosAngeles #LosAngelesTimes #Russia #Putin #Synapse #cryptocurrency #crypto #VC #venturecapital #DrPatSoonShiong #PatSoonShiong #SoonShiong #NerdReich #TheNerdReich #Broligarchs #Broligarchy

I'm having mixed feeling about Matrix lately.

It's awesome that we have an open chat protocol that works and supports most features of other messaging services like Discord, WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook.

But the only complete server implementation is Synapse, which is slow, clunky to administer, and complicated. Conduit was a great start, but people keep forking it like Pleroma.

1/3

#Matrix #Discord #WhatsApp #Telegram #Facebook #Synapse #Conduit #Pleroma

Billionaires like Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz want to fund experiments like #Synapse using the money from their limited partners. They aren’t at risk. There’s no downside for them. When it all goes south though, it is regular people who lose their life savings.

This is a fucked up and sad story.

We are going to see more and more of this kind of stuff now that "the handcuffs are off".

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/11/22/synapse-bankruptcy-thousands-of-americans-see-their-savings-vanish.html

Just launched https://env.esq, a free end-to-end encrypted (#E2EE) #decentralized #messenger & #chat platform for #lawyers, #journalists, #activists, #scientists, #educators, and others working in #EnvironmentalLaw, #Conservation, #ClimateJustice & adjacent spaces. #ENVESQ augments Earth.Law but doesn’t require membership there.

For the technically inclined, ENV.ESQ is both a #Matrix (#Synapse) #homeserver and a #Cinny WebUI—use either or both as you see fit. #Matrix #infosec #fediverse

The FDIC proposed a new rule forcing banks to keep detailed records for customers of fintech apps after the failure of tech firm Synapse resulted in thousands of Americans being locked out of their accounts. From @cnbc. #FDIC #Synapse #Fintech #Technology #Tech https://www.cnbc.com/2024/09/17/fdic-banks-fintech-customer-data-synapse.html

If you run your own #synapse #matrix server you probably want to update to v1.105.1 now: https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/security/advisories/GHSA-3h7q-rfh9-xm4v

I wish that #Matrix (and #Synapse) were better designed.

It has become among the most popular open messaging protocols, but it remains a scalability nightmare.

It's literally the Blockchain of messaging. Its current state is given by the sum of the whole chain of events received since t=0. It's a brittle append-only ledger, and any modifications you do to it are very likely to break it.

Do you have a huge 100GB database and you want to clean up old stuff? Sorry, you can't. There are some non-official solutions for compacting the events, but they're all likely to break your db - and none worked so far in my case.

Do you have users on your instance that entered a busy room on matrix.org? Then you'll get all the join/leave events of that busy room on your db, with no way of deleting them, and nothing to do unless your users exit those rooms.

Did you start your instance by toying with the default SQLite backend, and now that it's become big you want to move to Postgres? Sorry, no official guides provided, only unofficial procedures scattered across a bunch of blogs.

Do you want to change the name of your server? Sorry, you can't. All the events are tightly coupled to your server name. The advised solution is to simply start a new instance.

Do you want to keep the same server name but spin off a new instance? Sorry, you can't, because your server name, your keys and the events sent to other servers are all tightly coupled, so your new instance may not be able to reliably exchange messages with servers that were federated to your previous one.

Do you want to migrate your account and conversations to a new server, or even just get a backup of your data? Well, you can just forget it, because there's no way of disentangling the thick mesh of events and moving it somewhere else.

Such a rigid and brittle implementation shouldn't have become an open de facto standard without much questioning about its poor design decisions.

At the very least, some official tools must be provided to enable admins to compact events. If the size of the database is guaranteed to increase indefinitely, then entry barriers against self-hosting are only going to increase.

Following up on last month's news about Synapse and Dendrite, @element has begun implementing its planned forks, starting with Synapse.

We recommend reading their latest blog post for details: https://element.io/blog/synapse-now-lives-at-github-com-element-hq-synapse/

The Foundation is pleased to see that, not only do the forked projects remain under an open source license, but Element binds itself, through the CLA, to keeping 3rd party contributions in the open source commons.

#Synapse #Dendrite #Matrix

OwnYourData.site updates!

this week we have:

launched our #kbin server at https://kbin.ownyourdata.site

launched our #peertube server at https://peertube.ownyourdata.site

launched our #synapse (#matrix) server at https://synapse.ownyourdata.site

upcoming tasks:

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