we did this in the late 2000s when schools banned chat programs. Just working in Google docs teach.

should also look into conduit or one of its siblings, normal synapse is a dog to run

Your phrasing of the question implies a poor understanding. There’s nothing preventing you from running containers on bare metal.

My colo setup is a mix of classical and podman systemd units running on bare metal, combined with a little nginx for the domain and tls termination.

I think you’re actually asking why folks would use bare metal instead of cloud and here’s the truth. You’re paying for that resiliency even if you don’t need it which means that renting the cloud stuff is incredibly expensive. Most people can probably get away with a$10 vps, but the aws meme of needing 5 app servers, an rds and a load balancer to run WordPress has rotted people. My server that I paid a few grand for on eBay would cost me about as much monthly to rent from aws. I’ve stuffed it full of flash with enough redundancy to lose half of it before going into colo for replacement. I paid a bit upfront but I am set on capacity for another half decade plus, my costs are otherwise fixed.

The way I’ve been using it for a few years is that most of my machines can see each other and I have a shared folder and versioning setup. As I add things they move between the different machines and once an additional machine has it it is available to the others until everything is in sync

You can definitely do chain topologies which are useful for certain things with a single source of truth

As a note, I believe that syncthing will actually scale up with more nodes as they will all share with each other if they know each other. If you’re doing this 1 to many then this is not the case of course.

Unironically their greatest movie.

Hi, i believe this is where https://groups.google.com/g/django-developers/c/C_Phs05kL1Q

They’ve explained why

Ah good to know, shame it’s been left by the wayside a bit. Was super useful in the early days

Seems similar to the work done by https://sub.rehab