Jade

The Matrix Foundation and Element/New Vector are different orgs, and it’s Element with the government contracts

“slowly being cannibalised” at the start the foundation was just new vector/element putting on a funny hat. It’s got less bad as time has gone on tbh

Copying my post from up thread:

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

Electric is not a discord clone and element has a customer base more similar to slack. And to end encrypted direct messages have been the default for years now in Matrix.

Delta chat is hilariously slow. It’s less of an instant messenger and moreover next business day messenger. That’s ignoring the problems you’ll have running it on your own infrastructure.

To go on top of the reverse DNS/mail comments, it can also be useful for running a service like codeburg pages, or some other program that handles its own virtual hosting and TLS, without interfering with your more traditional services.

Stalwart recently released CalDAV & CardDAV support, and it’s what I use for mail. It’s pretty secure by default too.

Talon is closed source, What’s available on GitHub is the community command set - effectively just configuration

I finally dealt with the AI scrapers hammering my Forgejo instance - https://jade.ellis.link/blog/2025/05/18/actually-stopping-forgejo-ai-scraping Hopefully next week I’ll be able to get back to actually programming Continuwuity rather than fighting fires.

The problem (as matrix people found out the hard way) is some media & content is very illegal. Most individuals really don’t want even the chance of being exposed to CSAM or gore, and neither do server operators want the chance of that being shared from their server or written to their disk when that can result in police at the door. You need default-on moderation that is very powerful, and end users should never be distributing media they don’t want to. This pushes towards centralisation of nodes run by experts, and heavily punishes true P2P models.

Here are some interesting feeds I follow, mostly tech-focused and quite Rust heavy:

• Alexis King’s Blog https://lexi-lambda.github.io/feeds/all.atom.xml
• Blog on Asahi Linux https://asahilinux.org/blog/index.xml
• brson https://brson.github.io/feed.xml
• dystroy https://dystroy.org/blog/atom.xml
• ecton https://ecton.dev/rss.xml
• fasterthanli.me https://fasterthanli.me/index.xml
• Faultlore https://faultlore.com/blah/rss.xml
• Graphite - Blog https://graphite.rs/blog/rss.xml
• Ink & Switch https://www.inkandswitch.com/index.xml
• Jade’s Website https://jade.ellis.link/blog/rss.xml
• Lord.io https://lord.io/feed.xml
• Mara’s Blog https://blog.m-ou.se/index.xml
• matklad https://matklad.github.io/feed.xml
• Raph Levien’s blog https://raphlinus.github.io/feed.xml
• Tulir Asokan https://mau.fi/blog/index.rss
• Xe Iaso’s blog https://xeiaso.net/blog.rss

Generated by opening an OPML export in firefox, running the following script and deleting a bunch of feeds:

 "- " + [...document.querySelectorAll("body > outline > outline")].map((f) => `[${f.getAttribute("text")}](${f.getAttribute("htmlUrl")}) \`${f.getAttribute("xmlUrl")}\``).join("\n- ")