IPv6 only is an interesting choice for a federated system but I guess most server providers will be providing a subnet for free anyway. I've set up services on IPv6 before but I've always at least provided a (slower) nginx proxy on some IPv4 address.<p>I'm all for the freedom of only providing IPv6 but for federated protocols relying on the servers of others it's a bit weird. Works fine inbound in rooms hosted on homeservers this server can reach, might produce issues outbound (i.e. when someone on a homeserver missing IPv6 tries to DM someone on this homeserver).
What about user management? I only tried conduit for one day, the setup was fine, everything advertised seemingly worked. But i got really disappointed by the administrative interface. There is basically none, at least not without setting up scripts, monitoring panels etc yourself. I'm no professional sysadmin, so for something targeting selfhosters it needs to get robust administration built into it by default: there's gonna be mistakes, it's not gonna be well tended to daily or even weekly. I'd really like to use this, but i will wait until it's more robust in real-life scenario.<p>I should add they apparently try to go with an "admin channel" to which you send commands to to manage the server. This is imho a good and accessible idea. But at the time i used it it was very limited and i basically had to reset the db when i had the bad idea of activating e2e encryption on that room.<p>My take on dendrite is basically the same: seems like the core stuff works well enough, but real life administration and monitoring is messy (or mostly non-existent actually).
Neat. I tried conduit a few months ago and didn't find it to be stable enough for my personal usage.
I'll give ungleich's home server a try and set it up again if it works well enough.
Very strange choice to run a public instance that is IPv6-only.<p>Unless federation is disabled altogether, in which case it doesn't matter, joining a room from an IPv6-only instance with other servers in the room that only speak IPv4 will result in a quite terrible experience. Both sides will depend on dual-stack servers in the room to fill gaps and that will likely only happen when the missing events from the remote side are referenced by something else.
Unrelated. Tried Matrix for the first time a few days ago. Horrible experience (very slow). It's a shame it's borderline useless, because it brought back nostalgia from my IRC days.