I got distracted from my work so I made some Continuwuity propaganda. Continuwuity is a lightweights Matrix chat server that you can self-host pretty easily. Give it a try :3
Do they have MAS support yet? I kinda need my single signon :p
somebody: makes anything
lemmy: we hate thisI love how the culture of the fediverse is consistent. it hates everything, everywhere, all at once, and all of the time.
I tried to get my friends off of reddit on it and that’s what they always commented about, so they’ll never join.
I use the continuwuity server. Thank you to the devs for all of the hard work!
I hate you
Respectfully this is a dumb fucking name
Your users won’t ever see the name.
I love it
It’s a spiritual successor to conduwuit, the name checks out imo.
Feel free to use Synapse, og conduit or whatever floats your boat.
Myeah but it’s just a server - the clients just use Matrix.
I’m trying so hard not to hate this post but you have given me so many reasons to
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use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others
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mismatched fonts
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comic something font
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no human readable data next to the QR code
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mismatched gradient radii in the corners
Make it stop 😭
the only valid complain is “no human readable data next to the QR code”
The project is the “official community continuation of the conduwuit homeserver”. Conduwuit was a popular matrix backend until the project was archived.
Although interestingly, conduwuit says the official continuation is Tuwunel. interesting
It is primarily sponsored by the government of Switzerland 🇨🇭 where it is currently deployed for citizens.
Now this, I like!
Github, not so much
Maybe this one should be named altuwunative.
I’ve been using Tuwunnel since Conduwuit ceased developpment and I haven’t been able to find a reason to switch to Continuwuity yet.
Everything there (aside from perhaps not printing the full URL under the QR code) is deliberate and a part of the ‘brand’. Roboto + Sour Gummy for the fonts, asymmetry, whimsy. If you don’t like it, I’m sure you can use Element’s Synapse and you’ll be able to talk to people using Continuwuity just fine. That’s kind of the point.
Also https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Sour+Gummy?preview.script=Latn is way better than comic sans, you can’t convince me otherwise
Haha this is right in the middle of the spectrum between Comic Sans and Simpsons.
Looks like the Oatmeal’s font
stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?
use of UwU in something I absolutely need to share with others
It’s purely a backend, what’s under the hood is not really visible to matrix clients.
Edit: Though I wish this graphic communicated that more, just realized it doesn’t even say anything about [matrix].
UwU. The cuteness is a huge plus IMO.
The problem is “cuteness” is very much in the eye of the beholder for things like this, and I’m with neatchee here, it’s not cute, and it makes it basically unshareable, and hence unusable in a lot of contexts. I appreciate the effort that’s gone into the project, but the name and publicity massively detract from that.
Hear me out: dont share it then and go find another option
Considering that it’s a fork of conduwuit, continuwuity is a pretty fitting name, UwU 😺
You don’t need to share any server technology names, just that it’s the Matrix protocol or “platform”, or even just “Element” if they are using that app. I don’t tell other matrix users they are on a Synapse server.
Only the host needs to know about the server app name, and is the only one who interacts with it directly.
Ow weewy, giv it a west! :3
I like it. It’s nostalgic, in a 90s sort of way 😂
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This really is a bizarre thread, but anyways, thank you for sharing.
This is the homeserver written in Rust, right?
A suggestion: wherever a QR code is included, the human-readable content should be included next to it. Not everyone has a QR code reader handy, or their reader has the bad habit of immediately opening links or apps. In this case, I see that it just goes to https://continuwuity.org/ and is benign, but others may be apprehensive at naked QR codes.
(there’s obviously an exception for QR codes that are intended to convey machine info, like TOTP codes)
I made an NFC/QR code card for my wifi details at home, and that also includes the details written in clear text on the card, since some devices simply don’t do QR (or NFC in my case).
Agreed that QR codes should be accompanied by text links for accessibility, because many times the scanning fails due to bad light, old camera or shaky hands.
I was very excited when I started seeing QR codes gaining popularity. That excitement was quickly shattered when everyone just started using them improperly and they just made everything more annoying 😮💨
What exactly is “improper use”?
Putting simple things behind a qrwall. I once went to a presentation and they had that qr code to scan to get the certificate, and I went there without my phone, so I got no certificate (I needed it for academic bureaucracy). restaurants with qr-only menus also come to mind. Oh, I also saw once a school with the timetables mural with just qrs and nothing else written, so if new students didn’t have a phone AND mobile internet, they couldn’t find by themselves where and when their classes took place
Lots of people use Lemmy via mobile. How am I supposed to scan a QR code?
Print it out and scan it. Use a barcode reader. Use another mobile. Upload it to a barcode decoder website.
Or I could just scroll past it and not give them the time of day because they were too lazy to post a link, you know, the primary method for navigating the internet for decades now. Why the need to overly complicate things?
You could have done that, but here we are.
Point being, if you can’t be arsed to do the bare minimum and post a fucking link, why should anyone give your post a second look?
Basically anytime it’s not printed
It is!
Yeah, I see your point, and I included the link in the alt text. On the actual design itself though, any URL I wrote in could be completely different from the QR so it seems slightly pointless - especially as it would just be writing Continuwuity a third time haha
Including the URL isn’t to act as a check on the contents of the QR code, but to act as an alternative for those who don’t want to scan it at all.
The alternative is to search the name right next to the code in this design
I know you are in good faith (and I already run my continuwuity server!), but in ppractical terms you are suggesting to use Google, and I don’t want to. Expecially for something you could have included in text in the post.
edit: I am reminded of Richard Stallman spelling out full URLs during conferences, complete with subdirectories. It is silly, but it works.
This is not a good idea: having to search means an implicit reliance on a search engine. Even with a trustworthy web search – and those are becoming fewer and fewer – why add this complication? The URL doesn’t even have to be large; it just has to be readable.
Even worse is when there’s an adversary: what would stop someone from buying getcontinuwuity.org but have it be pro-Big Tech propaganda, with tracking cookies galore, and then pay Google or Bing to put it at the top of the web search results?
Whereas in 2026, a URL is not confusing at all to include. People know what http:// or https:// mean. Even big brands might not own their own product name’s domain. This exact problem came up just six days ago: https://www.neowin.net/news/paintnet-can-finally-be-downloaded-from-the-right-place/
The whole point of marketing is to reduce the barriers for people to find something useful or valuable. Adding an accessibility barrier is antithetical to that objective.
Or just post the link.
Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.
Lots of folks also like the unmarketable names, because you know that it’s not a corporate project. You’re hearing about it, because it’s actually good, and not just because some startup got VC money to do marketing.
Heck, the reverse is true as well. This project is better specifically because it has that name. You just know some transfemmes are tirelessly hacking away at it, because they enjoy the silly name.
When they have good names they get stolen.
Try took up about gemini protocol.
Well, it startend with conduit. That was a respectable name. The development slowed down and someone wasnt happy abput not getting pr merged. Then it got forked to conduwuit.
Speed picked back up. There was later a massive meltdown for some reason. To successors emerged continuwuity and tuwunel.
There’s almost always a backstory for why the makers choose the name they did, but that doesn’t change the harmful result. A bad name seriously limits how much the software will ever get adopted. Heck, if there was a FOSS project i cared about enough then i would fork it and keep everything the same except give it a more palatable name.
If the fucking name of a project is the reason you won’t use it, then by all means, don’t. We’re not missing you.
Myopic take. Generally projects are healthier when they have a larger userbase
Then use it?
I’m not taking about me personally using it or not using it
Respectfully, this software could solve all my problems in life, and I would still struggle to ask my friends to “federate with my continuwuity server so we can chat”
Its just called a matrix server, you don’t need to tell anyone the specific kind.
Respectfully, you have no idea how Matrix works and I know you don’t use it if you think you have to tell people what backend you use for them to connect to you.
Then call it Matrix. They don’t need to know and probably don’t care about the specific server software you’re using.
qr codes are cringe
it’s all about datamatrix
truer ones use aztec
Voilà
I thought this was an ad, then I remembered that I was on lemmy, and I got sad because this is an ad
Is there any reason to use Continuwuity over Tuwunnel?
At first I uwunderstood your comment as a joke, but apparently Tuwunel does in fact exist and it’s a continuation of Conduwuit.
Yeah, I currently use Tuwunnel for my own matrix homeserver. It’s been really reliable so far.
*continuwuation
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Well thanks for at least explaining what it is, but isn’t Matrix already self hostable? Anyway what’s wrong with IRC?
Matrix is a protocol, not a software. Continuwuity is one of the few servers for this protocol.
It’s based on conduit, which itself is really a lot better for self-hosting than synapse or dendrite.
I ran conduit on an atom d2550 alongside other services and it basically idled. Running synapse or dendrite on the same machine made the whole machine max out permanently.
Irc is fine, but not federated…
Love and use this!
Solid, fast, amazing experience… A breeze to setup as well… Quite another thing than Synapse.
