My hard drives have more than doubled in cost in 6 months.

Fuck data centers.

Indeed

Try just using digital TV. I get like 20 channels on mine with just a coax cable hooked to a VCR!

Ohh I see now. I was just wondering why you’d make a community for only yourself so I didnt get that. But you’d basically have it for your account to live on.

No I get that, but what do you do on it??

Question, what is the purpose of running an instance for yourself ?

How does a regular person donate bandwidth?

Omg! I was just looking for a walkie talkie type app!

Is this next-door for non boomers?

Sadly it will never take off but cool idea.

This is always the problem. Internet folk are normal now, they dont have tech skills. In ye olden time we were used to irc and mumble and had no problem switching to other clients if needed. Now people freak out that they need to make a new account somewhere else to leave discord and good luck explaining something like Matrix to them!

I see.

The problem is now my friends will be stuck on matrix.org 😬

The issue with moving all the time is my friends will be annoyed. Can we move without making new accounts and rooms again? They’ll ask why are we changing it again…you know how it is

Hmm, well voice is one of the most important to us…

I’ve been seeing synapse everywhere but don’t know what it does. I need to read up