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…
I know the pain lmao, I moved from Signal to XMPP to Matrix back to XMPP and then found Delta. It is pretty good so far though, my favorite part is that “normals” can use it easily if I can get them to install it, the biggest hurdle still is the “normal” people who say “aNoThEr ApP fOr TeXtInG?!?!” but those same people have no problem installing an app for 16 cents off of a McChicken.
Like, not that they’re burnt out on me trying apps, I did my testing with small groups, these are people who had no idea of that struggle, they just ONLY want to use iMessage because they suck and are lazy, they legit said “instead of me installing a free app, you should ditch GrapheneOS and spend a grand on a phone that spies on you.”
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 watching Netflix (gasp!) 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’re saying Deltachat gets you more of that then XMPP and Conversations, I’m willing to listen.