firstly happy new year for all.

I need to start use Matrix to talk with my biggest friends and colleagues of my university, but i read is good not create an account on matrix.org and create an account in others public servers , to not centralize the matrix protocol. My question is if anyone has a good experience with others public servers, besides matrix.org. Any tip or advice?

I found this servers on joinmatrix with longstanding: https://tchncs.de/en/matrix | https://syscom.utwente.io/info/matrix/homeserver/ | https://matrix-help.envs.net/ | https://tedomum.net/service/matrix/ | https://rollenspiel.chat/ …

Which one should i choose, any tip?

TYIA

        • toastal@lemmy.ml
          2·
          8 days ago

          It is de facto centralized around Matrix.org & the servers they run, which was originally funded by Israeli Intelligence so who knows what they are doing with all the metadata flowing to a single cluster of servers. Also using the eventual consistency model like a blockchain duplicating all data between all nodes while resilient is incredibly wasteful on storage & RAM. The costs are so high, most medium-sized servers with open sign-ups needed to shutdown due to storage costs & scaling up a node costing too many extra resource for CPU/RAM. There also wasn’t anything lacking about the prior arts—but open source & startup like to reinvent more things than they should.

          Ejabberd, which I mentioned, can run nodes with 2 million simultaneous connections per node & run on meager hardware in comparison with an extra decade of stability / battle testing.

          • ZeroOne@lemmy.world
            1·
            8 days ago

            What about Bridging ? (That’s a great feature for a chat-technology to have & I’m gonna defend this to the death)

            • toastal@lemmy.ml
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              7 days ago

              It was called gateway by all sorts of tech til last generation decided to rename the old concept?