OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

Eric Kuhnke eric.kuhnke at gmail.com
Tue Mar 23 08:57:10 UTC 2021


For persons considering mattermost, I would recommend instead looking into
a self hosted Matrix + Synapse (matrix protocol server daemon) setup, which
is fully open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)

Element is one typical GUI client for it, but there are many options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software)



On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:45 PM Cynthia Revström via NANOG <nanog at nanog.org>
wrote:

> I have used Mattermost but iirc it has very limited access control unless
> you have the enterprise version and generally doesn't seem to be made for
> public groups.
>
> This in addition to probably the main problem, it will have higher barrier
> to entry especially for those already using Discord for other purposes.
>
> -Cynthia
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 07:38 Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 07:22 +0100, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote:
>> > Because Discord is proprietary, you can't host your own instance
>>
>> For reasons of confidentiality we implemented a MatterMost server for
>> company use. It is free, works well, runs on our own servers. It lacks
>> some of the bells and whistles that Discord has (in particular it has
>> no audio or screensharing), but as an instant messaging platform for us
>> it's worked very well indeed.
>>
>>
>> Regards, K.
>>
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