Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 and I only picked Cinny because it allows for the rigid channel structure (which we like) (edited)
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Tuesday, June 2, 2026
If spooky is keeping this up, this is my new "discord is dead" emergency contact service since he took the time to set it up
Matrix was always our backup if discord permantly went to shit in an unusable way, I am a fan of it, despite them trying their hardest to ruin the core product
Other than the encrpytion, Spooky's official phijkchu matrix is setup, and free to use (as a backup, I guess you can use it as an exclusive chat if you so wish)
There was a mass banwave though recently according to spooky, and having this set up is good because it still is the official fallback if discord goes to shit
a bunch of servers moved to Stoat, the rest moved to matrix
Damn I will never speak to garbage again
This is also the "discord is having an outage" refuge for me now
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/element-classic/id1083446067 but it kinda really sucks, it's more similar to IRC than Discord
If you click https://matrix.to/#/#Phijkchu:mx.phijkchu.com it will show you all the clients
Element is standard one, FluffyChat is decent but kinda a mess, Syphon/Tensor are in-dev right now
I think spooky was doing something though
because now it is layed out differently
Oh spooky left the rooms, damn
rip the dream
should have posted, mb
I'm fixing the encryption issue
it's still up and registration should still be open
but the server/channels need to be replaced
and I was going to do things a little differently anyway, since we don't really need 16 channels
I'll update my post tomorrow when I have the new server setup
going to do other stuff now, since I've been at my desk most of the day
it was never alive. i never joined it
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
The Matrix server has been rebuilt, check out: https://mx.phijkchu.com/#/#Phijkchu:mx.phijkchu.com
I did a one-time reset of everything, so if you registered on the Cinny instance, you will have to make new accounts (sorry)
If you used an existing Matrix, Element.io, or FluffyChat account, you can just leave the old server and add:
#Phijkchu:mx.phijkchu.com
I migrated the whole server to a new backend that is a lot faster and supports the perm stuff I wanted to do, but trying to surgically copy user data and passwords/keys over wasn't going to work without breaking everything. Also setup E2E Encryption in a way that's not incredibly annoying and doesn't break message history
Well it's mostly working, I'll fix the last perm issue in the morning
gnight Phijkchu
If I'm not up to vet people, they won't notice there's a perm issue with some of the hidden chats
since Vetting and the VCs work perfectly
Note for spooky's thing, clear you cookies for the site if you did it yesterday
yeah
Its a federated chatroom service. Basically its just a weird alt discord thing is all you need to think of it as