Re: OT: Re: Younger generations preferring social media(esque) interactions.

[Eric Kuhnke <eric.kuhnke () gmail com>]

For persons considering mattermost, I would recommend instead looking into
a self hosted Matrix + Synapse (matrix protocol server daemon) setup, which
is fully open source.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matrix_(protocol)

Element is one typical GUI client for it, but there are many options.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Element_(software)



On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 11:45 PM Cynthia Revström via NANOG <nanog () nanog org>
wrote:

> I have used Mattermost but iirc it has very limited access control unless
> you have the enterprise version and generally doesn't seem to be made for
> public groups.
>
> This in addition to probably the main problem, it will have higher barrier
> to entry especially for those already using Discord for other purposes.
>
> -Cynthia
>
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021, 07:38 Karl Auer <kauer () biplane com au> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 2021-03-23 at 07:22 +0100, Cynthia Revström via NANOG wrote:
> > > Because Discord is proprietary, you can't host your own instance
> >
> > For reasons of confidentiality we implemented a MatterMost server for
> > company use. It is free, works well, runs on our own servers. It lacks
> > some of the bells and whistles that Discord has (in particular it has
> > no audio or screensharing), but as an instant messaging platform for us
> > it's worked very well indeed.
> >
> >
> > Regards, K.
> >
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