@cobra2 @claudiom
- go do some :P
- yes, seems there's a package for freebsd too https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/master/INSTALL.md#freebsd
- no
- yeah, a synapse server with federation can get pretty resource intensive, mainly RAM and disk
- not really, as chat and microblogging are quite different, technically someone's feed can be gotten through rss, which you hand to some bot that sends it in your room
@cobra2 @claudiom a bot like that would only show toots, not do any interaction/posting
afaik there's no mastodon bridge for matrix, nor irc, nor jabber/xmpp
if you mean bridge to those:
irc https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-irc
xmpp https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-bifrost
both can be either selfhosted, or you can use them over federation from matrix.org for example
@cobra2 @claudiom @f0x The whole Matrix ecosystem is not trivial to set up. It‘s a complex beast and a lot of stuff to set up. It‘s not like setting up your personal git server by flipping on SSH.
It involves a good amount of interacting components for your own instance alone.
Bridges and Bots are mostly not easy and on top if that.
Don‘t give up, it is a lot to grasp.
@f0x @cobra2 @claudiom You don‘t want the package but install via python pip.
While the package is well and timely maintained, the FreeBSD people who realease it to pkg(8) are unable to actually get it out in a meaningful timeframe. It‘s lagging behind for 6-10 weeks because of that which is unacceptable, especially for security fixes.
With pip you can updates minutes after a new release becomes available.
So I'm going to need to setup synapse and bots to communicate with the fediverse?
Are bots required for irc/jabber?