Can confirm, am running a lot of services on a VPS that make my life more convenient. I prompt from my phone and get useful stuff out. I am a software engineer, so I can course correct ir when necessary. I only use opencode for this, not Hermes or Openclaw

Maybe not, but it would probably grow immensly. The exodus from discord is pretty significant, and matrix is mentioned again and again. It does not have to be that many more users in % from Discord to make matrix a lot more popular than it is today

I am so pissed that Element or any other Matrix app does not support push to talk OR a minimum noise gate. If it did it would clearly get tons of new users, it would be pretty much no question which plattform to replace discord with

I host everything on my Pi having turned off some logging. When I feel like it I use the command “dd” to copy everything exactly from the sd card to another as a backup with the same size. So when it stops working I just dd the new one to another one and replace the broken one with a new one. The SD cards have not stopped working yet though, after 1 year

Other people as well

I see many people have asked about monatization. I want to use peertube more, but feel kinda guilty for wasting bandwidth, without contributing. So I haven’t started watching creators that are both on YouTube and Peertube on Peertube yet. I also use Grayjay with Chromecast, so I guess I don’t seed the content either

Do you have any plans for a donation model that shares the donations with multiple instances based on views or settings from the user?

In a perfect world I would just pay 10€ or another amount per month, and that would be distributed based on traffic to both instances and creators.