Comments on: The Fediverse – What About Resources? https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/ "Allen Gewalten zum Trotz sich erhalten" Sun, 06 Jun 2021 09:44:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: ij https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2162 Fri, 07 May 2021 13:45:02 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2162 In reply to Jonathan.

Well, everyone should be able to easily understand this was no scientific paper on resource consumption. So, please don’t overestimate the importance of this blog post. If you feel that you can contribute a better summary of those mentioned Fediverse apps, then feel free! I’d be interested in your results. 🙂

]]> By: Jonathan https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2161 Fri, 07 May 2021 11:29:04 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2161 I think it’s hard to extrapolate anything meaningful from your personal Matrix server of one user. The usage pattern of one person on such a system surely bears no resemblance to patterns of multiple people communicating with each other. And any such solution will have some up-front cost which is amortised when you have more users. Trying to present these figures as useful just undermines the whole report, IMHO.

]]> By: ij https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2160 Fri, 07 May 2021 05:06:48 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2160 In reply to Matthew.

Hi Matthew!

Yeah, I agree with you that Matrix is not a messaging protocol. In the article I wrote that Matrix is more a replacement for MS Teams or similar solutions. You are writing that it is a message store, my word is that it is like a distributed database.
So, I think we have a similar view on this. 🙂

It’s not that I don’t like Matrix. Instead I’m following the development of e.g. Project Phoenix with great interest (greetings to Gawain! ;)). But I do have some criticism with Matrix as well, but I think that’s for another post and not for a comment.

In this article I focused mainly on resource consumption as a replacement for messengers like WhatsApp and based on my provided metrics XMPP is suited better for that purpose.

]]> By: Matthew https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2159 Thu, 06 May 2021 20:09:01 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2159 The fact that Matrix is using so much resources for a single user is because it’s a message store, *not* a messaging protocol like XMPP. If you join loads of busy rooms, the rooms get replicated onto your server. So a single busy user can easily use gigabytes of disk space. We’re improving the efficiency, but in the end one enthusiastic user can use way more space than thousands of users who just DM each other.

]]> By: ij https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2158 Tue, 04 May 2021 12:50:45 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2158 In reply to Anon.

Thx, in German it’s “Ressourcen”, so I think that’s the reason for that. Fixed.

]]> By: Anon https://blog.windfluechter.net/2021/05/01/the-fediverse-what-about-ressources/#comment-2157 Tue, 04 May 2021 12:36:49 +0000 https://blog.windfluechter.net/?p=3260#comment-2157 It’s written “resource”

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