2024-12-30, 09:34 PM
Ohhh ya I'm sure there are lots of opinions about Matrix vs IRC vs .... As a long time IRC user, I interact with many more projects these days over Matrix so... 🤷
Matrix is federated so I don't think it really matters where the room is "created", like maybe you don't have to stand up your own homeserver instance and can just register for an account on some public instance and create the room there.
That said, over in postmarketOS, we host our own homeserver using Synapse[1], but it's kinda annoying how much hw it requires for self-hosting it and sometimes upgrading to newer versions isn't always straight forward. For my personal stuff, I just pay the good folks at etke.cc[2] to host a basic instance on my domain (they contribute to FOSS projects that they depend on, which is a requirement for me). I think there are other options too for paid hosting. Or you could just sign up on matrix.org, but I'm not sure if that's advised anymore or what (maybe someone else here or on mastodon can weigh in on that.) Anyways, those are the options I'm familiar with, hope it helps.
1. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
2. https://etke.cc/
Matrix is federated so I don't think it really matters where the room is "created", like maybe you don't have to stand up your own homeserver instance and can just register for an account on some public instance and create the room there.
That said, over in postmarketOS, we host our own homeserver using Synapse[1], but it's kinda annoying how much hw it requires for self-hosting it and sometimes upgrading to newer versions isn't always straight forward. For my personal stuff, I just pay the good folks at etke.cc[2] to host a basic instance on my domain (they contribute to FOSS projects that they depend on, which is a requirement for me). I think there are other options too for paid hosting. Or you could just sign up on matrix.org, but I'm not sure if that's advised anymore or what (maybe someone else here or on mastodon can weigh in on that.) Anyways, those are the options I'm familiar with, hope it helps.
1. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse
2. https://etke.cc/
