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Running matrix on BSD:

* I've done absolutely no research.
* Is it possible?
* Have you done it?
* Did you take notes or follow a guide?
* I have read that it's not something that you put on a low resource system unless it's standalone, comments?
* Does matrix tie into the fediverse?

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@cobra2 @claudiom
- go do some :P
- yes, seems there's a package for freebsd too github.com/matrix-org/synapse/
- 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

@f0x @claudiom
So I'm going to need to setup synapse and bots to communicate with the fediverse?

Are bots required for irc/jabber?

@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 github.com/matrix-org/matrix-a

xmpp github.com/matrix-org/matrix-b

both can be either selfhosted, or you can use them over federation from matrix.org for example

@f0x @claudiom
I'm still reading up on all this. It's hard to infer usability information for my usecase from the manual.

And like all new projects, there is a new word for everything. I.e. Bridges instead of plugins.

@claudiom @cobra2 no not really. Bridging is a well-established term for linking various platforms together, and has been used like that way before Matrix...

@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.

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