@claudiom
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 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

@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 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

@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.