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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

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[โ€“] WhyDoYouThinkThat@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

phones home by default to fetch its news and feed it to the admin

What is that and why is it bad?

you may want to turn that off before booting first time

How do you do that?

[โ€“] JadedBlueEyes@programming.dev 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I assume they're referring to the announcement check, configurable via an option in your config file. It's what we use to make sure everyone knows about important things like security updates.