Season 7 - Episode 17: Matrix or Musk

Messaging • Musk • Mastodon

Episode edited by Jake Bauer — thanks!

Matrix

Clients
Conor's been enjoying Cinny
Amolith has Cinny and Element instances
FluffyChat for mobile

Synapse (reference server implementation" target="_blank)
Matrix spec

XMPP

Server implementations
Prosody
ejabberd
Snikket

A note about "Jabber" and "XMPP": Jabber is the name for the original base protocol specification from 1999. In 2002, the author contributed the Jabber spec to the IETF under the name XMPP. (source)
Commercial products using XMPP on the backend
Cisco Jabber
Google Talk (2013)
Nintendo Switch NPNS (push notifications, not news feed)
Zoom
Others…

Clients
Converse.js: web
Movim: web
Gajim: Windows, Linux, GTK, no A/V calls yet, dialer for Cheogram, more mature with advanced capabilities
Dino: Linux, GTK, A/V calls, simple UI
Snikket: Google Play, F-Droid, App Store
Conversations: Android, most mature and featureful client (paid in Google Play, free from F-Droid)
Cheogram: Android, fork of Conversations with specialised features for Cheogram users (F-Droid link)

Fediverse

Platforms
Mastodon
Misskey
FoundKey: Misskey but better (in Amolith's opinion)

Pleroma
Akkoma: Pleroma fork with a faster dev cycle, a friendlier community, and without the controversies surrounding Pleroma

Pixelfed (Instagram)
Peertube (YouTube)
Mobilizon (Facebook Groups, MeetUp)
Funkwhale (Music)

Mentioned instances

Fosstodon
mastodon.ie
mastodon.social and mastodon.online (run by Mastodon creator, Amolith says please pick just about any other instance)
nixnet.social (Akkoma instance run by Amolith, needs some work)
mk.nixnet.social (Misskey instance run by Amolith, needs some work)
Some recommendations

Our fedi handles:

Shane: @[email protected]
Conor: @[email protected]
Mike: @[email protected]
Amolith: @[email protected]

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Disclaimer

May contain mature references

Attribution

The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.