JadedBlueEyes

I got the ThinkPhone as a consumer (via lenovo.com) and am quite happy with it.

Yet again [0] quality standards seem to have slipped on the cloudflare blog. I'm not able to point at a cause, but it's not painting a pretty picture.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46781516

JadedBlueEyes

5 ay öncediscuss

You might want to move to a maintained fork like https://continuwuity.org if you haven't already

JadedBlueEyes

6 ay öncediscuss

This is vibe coded and filled with trivially proven false claims - the most blatant to me being that Tuwunel does not and has never used Postgres or Redis,

https://tech.lgbt/@JadedBlueEyes/115967791152135761

JadedBlueEyes

6 ay öncediscuss

https://jade.ellis.link - My blog, plus a bit of a personal link directory.

JadedBlueEyes

7 ay öncediscuss

https://rimgo.vern.cc/a/1un20s7

JadedBlueEyes

7 ay öncediscuss

FTR the server stats are from https://matrixrooms.info/stats. It's not a full view of the network but it's a reasonable sampling, based on servers discovered through public room aliases and servers that use it as a notary (trusted key server).

JadedBlueEyes

7 ay öncediscuss

This doesn't really excuse it, but to give you some idea of why Element haven't spent any time on dendrite right now, here's a sample of active servers on the federation as of today:

    2025-12-01
    synapse : 10068 (85.8%)
    conduit : 476 (4.1%)
    dendrite : 369 (3.1%)
    continuwuity : 303 (2.6%)

To add on to that, none of their customers use it, and there's no real community around it, unlike the independent Conduit-family servers that make up that remaining 11%.

Dendrite was a bet for two things: Could they make synapse faster? Yes. Synapse is faster now, and Synapse Pro is apparently even faster. And, can we make Matrix peer to peer? They ran out of money, and didn't have any customers who would fund it themselves. They're left with this project that is idling without a community, a customer, or a reason to exist.

Apparently, they have some funding to do work on the foundational parts of p2p now, but that will take a long time, and Dendrite is unlikely to be a part of that for a while, possibly at all (the Rust ecosystem seems to be where Element invested their time on the client, while Beeper invested in Go).

In the end, a lot of Element's pain is because of ambitious technical decisions made without a way to back them up practically or business wise. Things would be amazing if everyone working on Matrix had infinite time and money. Unfortunately, they don't, and Element is eating the consequences for acting like they did for a while. They seem to be better now, though.

JadedBlueEyes

7 ay öncediscuss

> Synapse is the only choice that supports bridges

This is not true, at least today. Continuwuity, which is an alternative server implementation, and its predecessors support bridges very well.

JadedBlueEyes

9 ay öncediscuss

If you look it up, you'll see that JMAP is 6 years old now. It's a protocol for doing email (and now other things) over HTTP, without many of the legacy issues from IMAP and SMTP. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON_Meta_Application_Protocol / https://jmap.io/index.html

JadedBlueEyes

9 ay öncediscuss

Aside from the other comments, I would say that a modern chat application is anything but 'simple' - there are a vast amount of features that you expect, from pinned messages to file downloads to threads, to say nothing of end to end encryption.

JadedBlueEyes

9 ay öncediscuss

the Matrix foundation is a UK company.

JadedBlueEyes

9 ay öncediscuss

You do have to keep bridges up to date, because they need to remain compatible with the internal APIs of other platforms. Beeper.com (mentioned by a sibling comment) is a commercial deployment of the mautrix matrix bridges, along with some propietary components. You can deploy the exact same bridges using their documentation: https://docs.mau.fi/bridges/ - although you won't have access to the propietary beeper client or hungryserv.

JadedBlueEyes

9 ay öncediscuss

Ink and switch is a research lab. As far as I'm aware, they're not a building any specific products, just exploring what is possible for human computer interactions

JadedBlueEyes

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