About ~vern’s Matrix Instance
We run a Matrix homeserver of our own, which
means you can communicate to from other Matrix
servers (and even XMPP servers using bridges)
with your ~vern account, your username will
appear as @USER:vern.cc
Our matrix instance runs locally built debian packages of tulir’s fork of synapse under monolith mode.
Bots
We have an instance of maubot which runs the following:
- sedbot (@sedbot:vern.cc)
- rssbot (@rss:vern.cc)
- weatherbot (@weather:vern.cc)
- ping/echobot (@ping:vern.cc)
- XKCDBot (@xkcd:vern.cc)
- reminderbot(@reminder:vern.cc)
- urbandictionary (@urbdict:vern.cc)
- serverchecker (@servers:vern.cc)
- translate (@tl:vern.cc)
- imperial -> metric (@metric:vern.cc).
XMPP Bridge
We also host bifrost, a XMPP bridge.
The address syntax to access XMPP from Matrix:
- Private chats:
@_jabber_USER=40DOMAIN:vern.cc - MUCs:
#_jabber_MUCNAME_MUCDOMAIN:vern.cc
The address syntax to access Matrix from XMPP:
- Direct chats:
USERNAME_DOMAIN@bi.vern.cc - Public chats:
#ALIAS#DOMAIN@bi.vern.cc
It also supports plumbing of existent Matrix rooms to XMPP rooms, room administrators can perform plumbing by doing the following:
- Invite
@jabber:vern.ccinto the room - Type
!bifrost bridge xmpp-js component.domain.tld roomnamewhere the MUC on XMPP would be calledroomname@component.domain.tld - To eventually remove the plumbing you can
just type
!bifrost leave
You can also type !bifrost help
for help on bifrost commands at any time.
Message Retention
We currently do not have a message retention
policy set, but its possible to delete all your
messages when you deactivate your user by
setting erase=true option in
json.
You can also delete all your recent messages
in a room with the
Remove Recent Messages option in
Element
What clients do you host?
We host instances of Element, Cinny and Hydrogen.
We use our own dimension server for integrations server and default to using our jitsi instance.