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continuwuity vs tuwunel: where to go from conduwuit?
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smiletolerantly@awful.systems
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If you've been selfhosting conduit or conduwuit, you probabl are aware that the conduwuit project was discontinued a couple months back.
I've been holding out on updating my matrix homeserver until it becomes clear which fork(s) will survive long term.
I feel like I can't put off updating for much longer now, plus the tuwunel nixpkg and -module were merged yesterday, so now the two most promising forks are both options for me.
Still, I'm unsure what route to take. Here's my thoughts:
- not going through another round of this in a couple of months from now would be great, so stability and long-term maintenance promises would be great
- I assume incompatibility between the forks, if not now then very soon; this is a "pick an option, then stick with it and pray" situation
tuwunelapparently has a full-time paid dev working on it now, which is great; at the same time, that means features will follow the priorities of the (as of now unknown) sponsor of the project- it is, however, the officially endorsed successor
- it also seems like few other people are actively involved, putting in question development practices, reviews, and what happens should the lead dev throw in the towel
- lastly, while there's been a lot of apparently rapid progress (with releases 1.0.0, 1.1.0, and 1.2.0 at quite a fast pace), the repo itself seems... empty? Few issues, few PRs, commentlessly-deleted issues
- on the other hand,
continuwuityseems more active by commit/contributors count, but is seemingly 100% volunteer work - they do seem to backport
tuwunelchanges and features, which is great! - they are not officially endorsed
In short: I fucking hate community drama. What fork did you go with? Is there anything else to consider? I just want an up-to-date matrix homeserver, and not to have to tell my users "sorry, starting from scratch because we picked the wrong fork..."
Understandable. Funny thing is, I'm not even federated; I think that keeps me away from a lot of drama.
But yeah. The drama sucks, and so does the Matrix Foundation. So many dumb decisions, so many years old issues that could easily boost acceptance and usability, but... Nah. No better alternatives around though if you want to own your data, have proper multi-client support, and at least the option to federate.
What about XMPP? What can Matrix do, that XMPP cant?
Hm, fair enough, I actually have very little experience with XMPP. (Only through prosody, which I personally am on a war footing with.) From a cursory glance, I also couldn't find an Android lient I'd really want to use, but of course that is subjective.
In any case: I have a matrix server up and running, and it has been a pain to get friends and family on there; I do not want to do all of that again with a new protocol/clients. As long as it's sustainable, I want to stay with the same server installation, and that means choosing a
conduwuitfor me.Understandable, trying to move friends and family between platforms is an herculean effort.
For everyone else interested in XMPP, you might want to check out: