Hey y’all,

So I keep having this intrusive though that I SO BADLY want to get my anti slop, anti corporate brainwash friends off of fb and start our own social area (with blow and hookers. Actually forget the blow).

My issues: most of them aren’t tech savvy and my setup would have to be solid with little issues. I never post on fb but I basically would Make 1 post inviting everyone to it.

I have a couple synology nas setups. Neither are open to the internet. I have some spare computers as well that could run the server fine.

I know I could potentially just make a server from one of the public instances of matrix but I don’t trust that and it’d be a nightmare if that one went down or something and we had to move again.

Realistically I’d probably get like 10 people to join me. Just a place for local community to hang out and share events etc.

I keep getting stuck on how exactly to go about it. Like I think I’d need tailscale and docker (still dont get what docker really is). I have used tailscale briefly on mobile and it seems to work. But idk. I would also be fine paying a modest sum a year for some pro to host it if that is smarter…

  • ArborNode@lemmy.shutes.orgEnglish
    5·
    1 day ago

    I’m a bit confused as the initial question was to replace FB but all the comments focus on chat. The addiction to FB will not be solved by chat. I really appreciate what another user said about wasting “social capital”. Don’t go forward with a solution none of them are looking for. Do they want a change?

    That said, I set up matrix for my own very technical family for chat, video, and voice calls. Since then I have had 4 “normies” want to join of their own free will and they use it and don’t complain about it.

    I feel the world of Matrix I stepped into a few months ago is different than what I read about on Lemmy as people speak of it as a pain, but it has been totally fine and can do everything fb messenger can do accept let you play games together.

    • nitrolife@hikki.teamEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Matrix changes server configurations irreversibly too often. Synapse, to say the least. I abandoned it after an update completely broke the login, and I switched to Stoat.

    • fruitycoder@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 hours ago

      And actually it can support games! Thirdroom is a VR space built on Matrix for example.

      I don’t think you were implying it couldnt, it’s just a such a weird cool thing to me I had to share