lionel

Since the fediverse is supposed to be decentralized, if you can host your own server and you feel like doing it, I would say you should do so.

I started with the yunohost install as well but decided to migrate to the officially supported docker install when I had issues with upgrades or had to wait for the ynh package to catch up. Although I don't want to take your money and bear the responsability of handling the migration, I could give you some pointers.

• Use the official backup and restore documentation as an inspiration
• Use the -W option with postgres commands so that you get prompted for the password
• Don't use pg_dumpall but pg_dump instead and select the lemmy db
• First migrate to the same version on docker
• Make sure everything is working fine
• Then proceed to upgrading to latest (depending on which version you come from maybe it would be safer to use intermediate releases)

That's from the top of my head but I had to try a few times before getting it right.

Exactly the same, I've been using it for years now because, as you said, it's functional but I would gladly see it more user-friendly.

What kind of issues do you have? Never had any using Debian, Ubuntu or arch

There was (is?) definitely something missing with xmpp though, since it did not (from my point of view anyway) take off.

I feel like fragmentation is also an issue with xmpp with tons of client implementing their own subset of the xep and none of them being really appealing to non tech-savy people.

Also the big issue is that people don't understand the federation thing, element chose to use the matrix.org server by default and that is an issue, make this instance way too big but it also made onboarding way easier for some people.

I don't know if there ever was a similar initiative with xmpp? Again we could argue it's not a good solution, but does the good solution really exist, other than wishing for people to understand what's really good for them and hoping they make the right choice?

I would gladly switch back to xmpp if it could be at least as useful to me as matrix, but sadly that's not the case.

I won't though since I just don't feel the need, I know noone using xmpp anymore and don't know of insteresting xmpp room I would like to join. If I do though I would gladly try xmpp bridging as I did with signal with my friend who are only there.

I used to use xmpp, hell my server is still running perfectly (mainly because it's an integral part of yunohost), I must say though that I never found a client I was truly comfortable with. I can't say whether that's due to the protocol or not.

I also know I never really had real contacts using xmpp and never found interesting rooms to join.

Since I've switched to matrix I have been able to make people migrate over mostly I think because of the user experience with the client (element), I joined lots of rooms on which I have lots of interesting discussions.

That being said there are some issues discussed in the article I must agree on:

• the lack of native client on PC
• reinventing the wheel, though I'm not qualified to determine if their reason for doing so is acceptable or not
• rooms discoverability is quite centralized, as are the invite links going through matrix.org
• the thing about new room versions, again I don't really know about the technical behind that

So I would say matrix is far from perfect but I consider it a step in the right direction. You can have technically perfect tool, it's useless if you can't get people to use it.

Trackmania seems perfect for handheld gaming indeed

I have been looking for something like that, thanks for sharing!

I don't understand why this is not the default behavior for Activitypub federated blog engines like writefreely, it would make so much sense!

Very interesting indeed, I could feel that wasn't easy but had never read a such detailed description of the hardships encountered doing so.

It's not THE solution but maybe it would be nice to have some sort of testimony section on code management tools so that developers could also feel the love for their product and not only negativity. Of course people could create issues to thank devs but since they're called issues....

Well at least I can use this occasion to thank you and all the other devs and contributors for the wonderful job on lemmy, I really enjoy it.

It's a shame to have to come to this when easy solutions could have been used, specially when they have been so clearly identified and outlined.

Oh thank you that did the trick