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I get that, its basically just going back to the model we had before with Teamspeak/Mumble/Ventrilo where the image is meant to be specifically about Federated alternatives/

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That’s your preference and there’s nothing wrong with it. Doesn’t make Signal a Fediverse alternative. Matrix fits that use case.

I prefer my messaging to be federated for the same reason I don’t want my other services depending on the benevolence of a single actor. But that’s me.

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I'm just saying that there's deficiencies in those other networks. Just that they are different networks.

Now if an xmpp user can directly message or communicate with a Mastodon user... then they'd be both part of the "fediverse".

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the author literally picked random projects from github tagged as matrix, without considering their prevalence or whether they are actually maintained etc.

if you actually look at % of impacted clients, it’s tiny.

meanwhile, it is very unclear that any sidechannel attack on a libolm based client is practical over the network (which is why we didn’t fix this years ago). After all, the limited primitives are commented on in the readme and https://github.com/matrix-org/olm/issues/3 since day 1.

From your link.

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I am a Lemmy user, can I message a Pixelfed user? All other AP users? Signal users?

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Friendica was one of the very first fediverse platforms, and is over a decade old at this point.

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And Signal isn’t?!

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Signal, no. And yes, Lemmy's integration via AP is sub-perfect. Ie, I can (and do) follow communities on lemmy, with my Mastodon and pixelfed accounts.

So, work is needed, and only happens if a) same protocol is used, or b) bridge modules are used (like friendica does).

If someone made an xmpp bridge to talk AP, then it's would be one big network, like how a lot of irc nets get bridged with xmpp nets, which makes those one, singular, federated network. But until they start speaking the protocol the rest of the fediverse does, it's just another network.

And again, it's not a bad thing. It'll even probably get there eventually.

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More recently I've felt like there's issues with being completely disconnected from any sort of critical mass. If I wanted to join a protest in my local city, I have doubts any of the fringe social networks could organize that. I can do my part to try to get more people on there.

It's part of why I joined BlueSky over X. It's more popular, and issues be what they are, that counts for a lot.

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Remember the early days of YouTube? When people made garage videos for fun? Remember Vines? When people were making videos instead of businesses making content?

That’s what Peertube is for. It’s to have fun. Showcase your high school band. Talk about your potted plants. Share your excitement about trains. It’s not to make money. It’s to live.

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Zulip or Revolt

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You don’t need to have a YouTube login to watch those. But you can join Peertube to post your content that you make without money as an end goal.

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Thanks for bringing it to my attention. It really looks like they managed to make an ID less chat as simple as possible. But the undeniable benefit of using one’s phone as ID is that when people switch, their contacts are already there. I think that friction alone will prevent normies from adopting it.

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Sometimes you’re ashamed of the ugly hacks you cobbled together to reach MVP, and you want to fix the stuff you know you need to fix first before being thrown to the wolves. I can respect that, for a limited time.

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One thing to keep in mind: briar DOES disclose MAC addresses for all interfaces, to enable contact discovery and routing.

Not a show stopper, but it is something to be aware of.

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Zero trust means there’s no trust assumed on the protocol - I.e. it distrusts all actors and the protocol takes steps to work in that trustless environment. I don’t know how that applies specifically to matrix.

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in these groups theres often someone that just cannot install a new app because their phones storage is full and they can't afford a better phone (or just don't want to spend money on it). i wouldn't insist with these people and just accept using whatsapp

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For a lot of FLOSS projects, it's common to keep the initial team small, so a product can be delivered fast, and gets opened up later.

It's to solve the "too many cooks" and prevent bikeshedding.

A lot of corpo espionage is there solely to tank potential competitors, which include FLOSS projects.

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It doesn’t have to be an all or nothing. If you have a decent ad blocker and don’t interact, even if you’re logged in, you’re already out of YouTube. Leave your interactions and uploads to Peertube.

I’ve removed yt from my phone and it was a positive change. I just watch stuff I get like sent or I search for. No more rabbit holes. Also no ads, background playback, playback with the phone locked… the only drawback is that closed captions don’t work full screen.

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I got my family out after some high profile data breaches on WhatsApp. We feel a lot safer sharing personal info over Signal and the switchover was painless. Even the video calls are great on signal.

There’s inertia, for sure, but once you highlight that some evil corp isn’t the one handling grandma’s inheritance data, it makes for a compelling case.

We all still have WhatsApp because we need to talk to the others. But our family chat only exists on Signal now.

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