Thank you very much for the info. I did the switch today, along with the overdue update to 25.05 and everything went smoothly ☺️

I think they have push notifications in XMPP these days. At least Prosody has modules like mod_unified_push and mod_cloud_notify and that seems to be supported for example by Conversations.im

To be honest, I didn’t have lots of battery drain, back when I used XMPP. And other old-school protocols like e-mail and sip voip don’t seem to be very bad either with whatever mechanisms they use. Or my phone isn’t reporting battery drain correctly… And with Matrix I also had to set up push notifications manually, or it’d just receive messages with a random delay per default.

I don’t think this is true. We have mechanisms in authentication systems to prevent that. For example make requests valid for one use only. And I’d say if an attacker can ask about age every single day until a user turns 18, and by that gaining knowledge about their exact birthday, it’s something like a side-channel attack and by definition not “zero” knowledge any more and needs to be handled/prevented by the implementation.

There are a bunch of options available. I think the exact layout depends on the exact use-case. From GlusterFS, Ceph, to (S3 compatible) block storage, to straightforward NFS, to database replication, that’s all for different use-cases like VM failover to decoupling storage from a service, to something like a Jellyfin sharing the media library with another service, to horizontal scaling of services… I don’t think there is a single answer to all of that.

No worries, I pressed PieFed’s notification bell, so you pinged me by adding the top-level comment about the update 😊 I happen to be using NixOS as well. So it’s going to be the same. Now lets hope this project turns out good.

Thanks for your update here. Decision seems pretty easy then. I’ll see if I can find some time next week, do a database snapshot and move to continuwuity as well.

I’m in the same boat. Keep me updated if you go forwards. I think I’m going to wait 2 more weeks or so and then make a decision. Community-driven sounds nice. I wasn’t aware of cuntinuwuity yet. And yes, all the drama and burnt-out people isn’t nice or healthy at all. It’s a shame that this is the state of messengers these days.