My advice with Matrix server hosting is don’t. You’ll see

Eugh yeah this is a big reason why I manage which inboxes people have access to

I don’t think I will ever tell anyone to go penguin mode “for the EU”, but that is a novel idea.

My advice is when you recommend Linux, do it for a specific reason, not a general philosophical one (it does not motivate them like you), and do not move up generationally. Older people generally have more elaborate workflows and unlearning then may not be worth it for them.

https://discuss.grapheneos.org/d/24134-devices-lacking-standard-privacysecurity-patches-and-protections-arent-private/36

Real discord nutjobs only use it in browser anyways since the app is such garbage + bookmarks. So being stuck in browser isn’t so bad for now

People are often convinced these things make the immune to rural burglaries, but they’re expected and remote locations often provide a lot of time to disable internet and power. You would need to be a Starlink + backup generator lunatic and even then it would just help notify + identify.

Everyone is posting this too much and I feel you are “jinxing it”

Cool well if they did lmk if this is a fake controversy

I would agree if they weren’t FUNDING Nazis. That’s coming out of the cost of your laptop buddy

True but keep in mind Fedidb and Fedimap are opt-in, you’re probably not seeing everything, especially small stuff

Wow I had no idea this drama even existed??? Uhhh anyways use RSSHub it’s incredibly powerful. You feel like the Silver Surfer.

AAAAAAAAAAA DON’T JINX IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

XMPP, but also Delta Chat! The Webxdc apps for Delta work in XMPP client Cheogram despite there being no cross-compatibility between the networks. It can access ordinary email servers so long as they were not set up maliciously (Apple, M$, Gmail, etc). It can do a couple things XMPP cannot, but it’s not suitable for anyone outside close friends and family. I basically only use it for email, automation, and other personal matters. XMPP is for general use and can replace Discord. The Movim project looks very cool they have a community here also join their XMPP chat. Cheogram services can connect to the regular phone network.

Ask in the Sharkey Discord (sorry that’s the only place they are) if any better forks have arisen than Sharkey yet. They’ll be frank

Which fork?

Hey, I don’t speak for anyone here, but this isn’t a problem. Decentralization is a means to an end, not a desirable state in and of itself. Federated networks being separate from each other is fine. I feel this has been a critical misunderstanding among advocates of open source social media.

Honestly, best experiences I have had on ActivityPub were replacements for a group chat of 40-200 persons, not an attempted replacement for Twitter. (Also crucially not on a Mastodon fork but stuff like Akkoma.)

Since this app is clearly for some people a replacement for the general mechanics of websites like Stack Overflow, HN, and Reddit, and for other people meant to be a direct fork of specific Reddit communities, it makes sense to me that the networks would diverge completely, though it seems it hasn’t happened yet.

What really kept me from using Lemmy is the poor integration with Mastodon. It’s not a UI thing. Mbin and Kbin were a step in the wrong direction by furthrt splitting the UI between two types of posts that are the same under the hood

Nice, I’m gonna try that. I use SingleFile.

Never cared for the way this fellow tries to argue that everything is too difficult to be useful. I’ve gotten plenty of friends and family on XMPP and the clients that don’t have encryption on by default are easy to remember. Really blowing it out of proportion.

Honestly, what do security researchers like this even know about normal people? They sit through all kinds of inconveniences to use Facebook. This is a thought experiment.

Some of these are valid criticisms, of course, a lot of XMPP stuff feels like it from the 2010s. It’s still the only real option. Matrix client or server is bloated garbage, theu moved server fixes into a walled garden, its development is dependent on funding from the USA National Endowment for Democracy technology fund. Signal has similar funding issues and is very shady with its centralization, trust issues, demanding phone numbers. Sets users up to leak all kinds of stuff in notifications like Matrix.

The strange insistence that only Signal meets their requirements makes me skeptical, as does the way they have operated in Github threads. They seem like an emotional nightmare to work with.

People generally don’t understand how much of their time wasted on fiddling with Windows could be automated