€25 is double with our exchange rate and our org would be pushed to afford even $10 per month. We’re not a massive charity, just a small community organisation. I was looking into AWS because it would cost little to nothing with the non-profit credits.

I’ve had a self hosted Matrix server at home so I’m familiar with it but the format is too much towards the chat end of the communication spectrum than the forum end and we need something that’s either a forum or similar in format.

Federation is an absolute no-no as we would have no control over any other servers the data federated to. And as far as I can work out, Matrix still has metadata issues. I realise going from Facebook to Matrix is still a massive leap in privacy but if people ask why it’s better than Facebook, if it can’t be a high level of security, it makes it harder to convince them (even though staying on FB would be worse - people have just become so normalised to FB’s privacy invasion, they just don’t think about or want to think about it). And despite having used Matrix for a while, I’ve become wary of where Element is taking things.

We could go the XMPP route but, again, we need something on the forum end of the spectrum, not something like group chat, Facebook (which makes finding previous information difficult), or Discord (same problem).

It’s crazy how perfectly I can hear his voice, with that unique intonation and pauses, saying this. He’ll be turning 100 years old this year, bless him.

This is our ginger in both pictures. You can never predict which side you will get.

No. It was seized by the New Zealand government. Don’t think that NZ is some great democracy, our govt is turning into an authoritarian nightmare the same as everywhere else. Mega can’t be trusted anymore