Hey y’all,
So I keep having this intrusive though that I SO BADLY want to get my anti slop, anti corporate brainwash friends off of fb and start our own social area (with blow and hookers. Actually forget the blow).
My issues: most of them aren’t tech savvy and my setup would have to be solid with little issues. I never post on fb but I basically would Make 1 post inviting everyone to it.
I have a couple synology nas setups. Neither are open to the internet. I have some spare computers as well that could run the server fine.
I know I could potentially just make a server from one of the public instances of matrix but I don’t trust that and it’d be a nightmare if that one went down or something and we had to move again.
Realistically I’d probably get like 10 people to join me. Just a place for local community to hang out and share events etc.
I keep getting stuck on how exactly to go about it. Like I think I’d need tailscale and docker (still dont get what docker really is). I have used tailscale briefly on mobile and it seems to work. But idk. I would also be fine paying a modest sum a year for some pro to host it if that is smarter…
Sit down. Let me pour you a drink. Then let us lament the curse of the normie together.
Beratna, tell me…is DeltaChat meeting their needs? Is it easier for you? I have one more migration in me, but i’m tired, Beratna. I just walked in to find my youngest (gasp) watching Netflix instead of the carefully curated media server.
Like a lot of us, I solved an interesting technical problem without accounting for the messy end user problem.
Fortunately, this one can be solved with a little uTorrent and some post-hoc market research and buy in (chocolate).
You saying Deltachat gets you more of that then XMPP and Conversations, I’m willing to listen.