I don’t want to create an echo chamber, so lets make sure that people I disagree with can never talk to anyone who doesn’t agree with them

I’m cheap.

So far, Conduit is the only answer for me, since I don’t own any quantum supercomputers.

I think it depends a lot on the federated service.

For mastodon, you follow individual users, so if there’s a million users or ten million or a hundred million, their instances will only be contacting other intances they’re federating with so it’s quite scalable.

For Lemmy, you follow communities, so every server pulls all the posts and comments the common community. This means that for an instance like lemmy.world hosting lots of different big communities, every new server hammers the one central instance.

A strategy for improving the situation I think would be to spread the load. Instead of everyone piling into megacommunities, if people spread out into smaller more tight knit communities over many different instances. Of course, this isn’t really compatible with the purpose of having communities like that.

It does seem to suggest that ActivityPub isn’t necessarily the most appropriate protocol for this purpose, even though it’s what was used because it’s the de facto standard on the fediverse.

No, I’m saying it does work, but other clients might not.

Besides lacking spaces and some rooms not letting you join, (and the lack of admin tools) the only big issue I find is that you plan to run something other than Element as the interface, you’ll have to test it because many matrix clients expect synapse or dendrite and won’t start with anything else. I’ve run fluffychat, I think kchat(whatever the kde matrix client is), and nheko, they all worked well with conduit.

My experience has been that dendrite and synapse totally maxxed out the server I ran it on (100% cpu utilization for days on end), so I run conduit.

The one downside of conduit is it’s a bit behind, so it doesn’t support all the latest rooms, and it doesn’t support spaces yet, and it has minimal admin tools so you’ll want to create all the accounts you need then close logins because bad actors will try to create logins and get you banned from half of Matrix. That said, I can tell you that even on my piddly little server (an Intel Atom D2550), it runs Conduit, ejabberd, nostr, and lotide, and the server basically sits idle. I can’t speak of bridges, unfortunately, because I don’t really use them.

This is the guide I used, it worked well to set things up:

https://gitlab.com/famedly/conduit/-/blob/next/DEPLOY.md

So there’s 2 things, I think.

1. Does your bios allow you to boot from SD card? If so, then you can boot from the SD card and so you can install software onto the SD card directly.

2. If you can’t boot off of the SD card, then perhaps you can install all the software on the SD card and then install a boot manager on the main drive. In this way, you boot off the main drive, then let the boot manager deal with loading the software.

You might be disappointed by the performance of software running off an SD card, mind you.

Unlike Russia?

Need to get something that supports ActivityPub on the list, but other than that looks pretty cool.

I didn’t know about minimalgpt. How is it?

They’re on GOG at a reasonable price and they’ll happily run on an Intel graphics chip.

The legacy of kain series is great. The next sequel worth talking about is legacy of kain defiance, which was also great.

The head writer was a lady named Amy Hennig, she went on to be involved in the uncharted series in a big way.

As with many things, nextcloud has a good app for it. Nextcloud mail is nice.

I played through disk 1 on a rental back in the day and it was amazing. I’ve heard that the ending is disappointing though.

Oh, I forgot Legend of Dragoon, that was a really cool game too.

Nothing is exactly like Chrono Trigger, it’s in a league of its own as one of the best games of all time.

Final Fantasy 6 was released around the same time on SNES, and many people debate whether Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy 6 are better, because they’re both great. 4, 5, and 6 are all really good. The Lufia series is also great.

From the same era but with much different gameplay is Terranigma, and there’s also the Legend of Mana series.

More modern examples of games that want to invoke Chrono Trigger are Septerra Core and Anachronox. Both are PC games, but they’re old enough that any reasonably modern PC can likely play them at full speed.

To me, the biggest problem with Matrix is that Synapse and Dendrite are both really heavy. I use an alternative server called Matrix Conduit that’s more like an xmpp server in how light it is. Only problem then is that Conduit doesn’t have that many resources so it’s always a few steps back from Synapse or Dendrite.

XD

“A conservative estimate for the value of the fediverse is 9001 trillion dollars”

Someone needs to stop me, my prophecies all come true but nobody believes me!

TeamViewer is really nice when you’re on the road a lot. That way if you need to hop in and change something, you can do it from pretty much anywhere.

I’ve been using invidious. There’s an automatic install script that’s perfect, except I’m using mint instead of straight ubuntu so I have to tweak the script a bit to use the ubuntu path.

https://github.com/tmiland/invidious-installer

I think there’s already apps for that.