- [The ones listed below](#the-links) are for comments to my blog, this website in general, my FOSS <s>spam</s> activity and a contact point for reaching me in general for not so private matters. They are connected together by [Matterbridge](https://github.com/42wim/matterbridge/#matterbridge).
- Many linking here utilize the rules listed below.
- Others are simply curious about protocols, transports, relays, bridges, etc. _Why did they end up on this page when they could have ended up anywhere else?_
[Contributor Covenant 2.1](https://www.contributor-covenant.org/version/2/1/code_of_conduct/) is the primary Code of Conduct here (which isn't forked due to this community forming around me and my website. Any project growing bigger would have its own), but we do have a couple of other rules too:
- Don't send private messages without asking for a permission first unless your message is purely moderation related.
- Please include your business in your first message and not only greeting. See [nohello.net](https://nohello.net) for more about that.
- Don't share personal affairs of other people outside of the room. This includes, but isn't limited to, gender/sexual/romantic orientation questioning, plurality, religion, etc. When in doubt, assume it's private.
- Mind the limitations of machines and people especially in the private side. Transport encryption is not [end-to-end encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End-to-end_encryption), which can be broken by a compromised client device (including, but not limited to bot/relay/bridge) or the protocol in question may neglect to encrypt something [like Matrix does for reactions](https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-spec/issues/660).
- For other matters, [_Chatham House Rule_](https://www.chathamhouse.org/about-us/chatham-house-rule) applies.
- _IRC_ was invented in 1988 and regardless of developing integrated message
storage since then, it's still _trivial to setup_ and runs well on _a toaster_.
_IRC servers_ are generally _[easy to enable Tor support on](https://github.com/ergochat/ergo/blob/master/docs/MANUAL.md#tor)_ and _IRC clients_
widely come with _[proxy settings](https://hexchat.readthedocs.io/en/latest/tips.html#tor)_ where _[Tor can be enabled](https://weechat.org/files/doc/stable/weechat_user.en.html#irc_tor_sasl)_. My personal
_IRC_ history begins in 2010 as user and since then I have also opered
mostly on _Charybdis+Atheme_ and nowadays on a couple of _Ergos_.
- _XMPP_ runs on _a bit more powerful toaster_ and the servers talk to each other
- _Matrix_ was introduced in 2014 and I started using it in 2016. Many of the
_client and server implementations are heavy_, _especially on server side_ requiring what to outside looks
like _a constant maintenance_ to deal with the _implementation performance issues_,
_I am not interested in even trying to selfhost a Matrix (home)server and bridges
until the situation significantly improves_. _[Matrix clients also seldom support connecting through Tor easily](https://github.com/vector-im/element-meta/issues/200)_,
while the _[Synapse server by Matrix.org team doesn't support connecting](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5152) through [I2P or Tor](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/5455) at [all](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7088)_.
