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
Respectfully this is a dumb fucking name
This really is a bizarre thread, but anyways, thank you for sharing.
I thought this was an ad, then I remembered that I was on lemmy, and I got sad because this is an ad
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 😭
I like it. It’s nostalgic, in a 90s sort of way 😂
stop? 👉👈 🥺 why UwU? me do wrong?
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.
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].
Ow weewy, giv it a west! :3
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.
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Why do useful FOSS things always have the worst names that make it hard to spread.
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.
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)
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”?
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
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.
qr codes are cringe
it’s all about datamatrix
Voilà
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”
Then call it Matrix. They don’t need to know and probably don’t care about the specific server software you’re using.
Well thanks for at least explaining what it is, but isn’t Matrix already self hostable? Anyway what’s wrong with IRC?
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…
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the Web SSD Solid State Drive mass storage TCP Transmission Control Protocol, most often over IP VPN Virtual Private Network nginx Popular HTTP server
5 acronyms in this thread; the most compressed thread commented on today has 4 acronyms.
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Love and use this!
Solid, fast, amazing experience… A breeze to setup as well… Quite another thing than Synapse.
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.
*continuwuation
