Using Matrix to replace proprietary and centralized chat appsjae.moe308 points·by jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·220 comments
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussIt is defined by the instance's admin generally.Try to ask your IT guy, maybe he'll know more about this!
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussIt does, currently waiting to be either invited to lobsters or for the registrations to open again.
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussI see the only use of 3PIDs in a professional setting where people have to find co-workers using emails or internal phone numbers.In my opinion, it is really useless for anyone else.
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussYou know that the identity server is not mandatory and is only useful in a professional setting right?If you really want to, you can host it yourself.
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussYes, this is really sad to see that much people in the OSS scene using nonfree ways to communicate.At least, IRC had open-source servers and clients but in my opinion, it's too old nowadays.
jaemoe·vor 6 Jahren·discussYou need to change the homeserver url to another one. There is a list here https://www.hello-matrix.net/public_servers.phpAlso what do you mean by "That are always full and require invite" ?
Try to ask your IT guy, maybe he'll know more about this!