Selfhosted

It's a spiritual successor to conduwuit, the name checks out imo.

Feel free to use Synapse, og conduit or whatever floats your boat.

Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.

The project is the "official community continuation of the conduwuit homeserver". Conduwuit was a popular matrix backend until the project was archived.

Although interestingly, conduwuit says the official continuation is Tuwunel. interesting

Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the 'brand'. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don't like it, I'm sure you can use Element's Synapse and you'll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That's kind of the point.

stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?

use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others

It's purely a backend, what's under the hood is not really visible to matrix clients.

Edit: Though I wish this graphic communicated that more, just realized it doesn't even say anything about [matrix].

UwU. The cuteness is a huge plus IMO.

Ow weewy, giv it a west! :3

Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.

I was very excited when I started seeing QR codes gaining popularity. That excitement was quickly shattered when everyone just started using them improperly and they just made everything more annoying 😮‍💨

Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it's not a corporate project. You're hearing about it, because it's actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.

Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.

When they have good names they get stolen.

Try took up about gemini protocol.

Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.

Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.

Respectfully, you have no idea how Matrix works and I know you don't use it if you think you have to tell people what backend you use for them to connect to you.

Then call it Matrix. They don't need to know and probably don't care about the specific server software you're using.

Voilà

It's based on conduit, which itself is really a lot better for self-hosting than synapse or dendrite.

I ran conduit on an atom d2550 alongside other services and it basically idled. Running synapse or dendrite on the same machine made the whole machine max out permanently.

Irc is fine, but not federated...

At first I uwunderstood your comment as a joke, but apparently Tuwunel does in fact exist and it's a continuation of Conduwuit.