Matrix Outage

[sez11a (Rich Sezov)]

No idea; you’d have to ask @zeroability, as he created the channels. I was just going where I hoped the people would be. Glad Matrix is back now, and if we move somewhere else, hopefully it’ll be posted somewhere.

[zeroability]

@ben79

You used to have to have an email to register a nick. If it is no longer required they should stop telling me to look for a confirmation email.

@sez11a

Oh, I think it is. But for something temporary, why bother registering?

@ben79

why use Freenode when they do not seem to have there act together.
Forget Freenode.

The room requires registered nicks to reduce botting.

Check spam folders for the email. I had no such issue.

[sez11a (Rich Sezov)]

@zeroability

The room requires registered nicks to reduce botting.

Weird; I did not register a nick; yet I got right into the rooms.

[zeroability]

Must be the lack of persistence. Anyway, it’s not a replacement at this time. Too many features wanted.

[vannax (Mike)]

Interesting.

MATRIX.org Is Down And This Is Good

[zeroability]

Federation was always going to be a means to create echo chambers. A centralized authentication method that connects to many different systems. It was always going to result in authoritarianism. It’s a power collective ripe for abuse.

Sadly, people will still keep using third party hosted solutions, because they can’t be bothered to back up or secure their own data.

[zeroability]

@zeroability

I set up some freenode rooms a few days ago.

It was a fun experiment. I don’t think it is to be.

[quilnux]

I didn’t even notice the outage since I run my own instance of Matrix. I guess that’s why a few people in one of my group chats weren’t responding to everyone else. Most of the people I talk to run their own instances so we weren’t affected much. At least we can see that Matrix “does” work beyond matrix(dot)org as long as your run your own instances.