Railgun is my fav support weapon. This buff is insane.

What really shocked me is you can one shot Bile Titans now.

I think any other suggestion might alienate or make it harder for people to join, and they may come with their own caveats, even Matrix might be too much for some. I was thinking IRC maybe but that is probably too far for most. Discord does seem like the safe option.

Kind of a weird platform choice.

You must have triggered some vegan to get a downvote. Yeah you need the 9 essential amino acids in your diet as your body can't synthesize them. They're called essential for a reason.

Setting up an app in docker is the easiest option, even more than just simply installing the binary?

Big deal, just self host in a VPS if you're willing to pay $$$.

Don't make the mistake though of self hosting (Dendrite) as it will just choke, in my case it was a single user instance subscribed to only a handful of channels but apparently that was too much for my server to load messages in any manner that would be considered quick.

I've self hosted several services at once on there but apparently Matrix is just too heavy too handle compared to other things.

Not sure I've ever run into anyone who seems to have put so much thought into this. Good stuff.

I got a small team in school to all adopt my self hosted Matrix as a chat solution for a project we were working on throughout the year. It was great. Everyone jumped back to Discord after we graduated though.

This pretty much nails where I was in my previous job, where I was for years. In a better place now because I went back to school and got a different much better job (easier in a lot of ways, and much better pay and opportunities). I had to dig myself out of my wage-slavery and it took some time and dedication. I still think about the next paycheck but the stress is much lower now.

I'm running a small Gotosocial based instance and will be defederating simply because I'm afraid of the bandwidth and general load when like there is 1+ billion new users federating via Threads.

Might want to see this: https://lemmy.ca/post/1090349 I can see this becoming a norm over there.

Looks like the upper Midwest might be ok, at least for now.