November 29, 2022

Season 7 - Episode 17: Matrix or Musk

43 minutes

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]

We have a store

We are on Telegram

And on Mastodon

And on Matrix

You can email us on show@

And despite rumours to the contrary, we do exist in real life

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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.

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November 29, 2022

Season 7 - Episode 17: Matrix or Musk

43 minutes

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