Yes, unfortunately that is the current reality. Note also the subtle hints this article points to: if you disagree with any of the tenents of our clique, you’re evil. In this case, Matrix uses capitalistic toolsets, which implies it is evil, and you should rather use an unfinished alternative because it’s made a by a trans person which is virtuous.

With a bit of green pesto and chianti.

Yeah… well, it seems to me that Matrix is potentially there. I mean I could install Element X on my parents’ phones, set it up with some account and be done with it. It would be as good as signal and whatsapp from an UX perspective. And I could then chat with them with any of the existing dozens of Matrix clients.

The worst problem, if you can call it that, currently is that Signal is good enough.

All in all, I think reading through all these messages makes me feel like doubling down on Matrix. It is currently a very passable IRC, Signal and Slack replacement and the only remaining problem is that those things already exist.

(Discord doesn’t need replacing, just destroying)

Well… Matrix. I don’t think it requires self-hosting? It’s E2EE and there are plenty of public servers.

Here’s Matrix CEOs answer to this article: https://lobste.rs/c/jekh0n – good discussion in that thread in general

You’re biased, based on your handle. You think Gaza is important.

I’m also biased, because I live next to Russia. I think defending against Russia in the current situation is much more important than anything that could happen in Gaza. And if you want to take the historical perspective, Russia has violated my country and the people of my country several times during the last 300 years at least, and probably more. Middle East obviously has the potential to beat us on the historical record, given how the whole of human civilization practically rose in that area, but still. It’s not like this is happening for the first time over here either.

It’s not that I don’t care about their tragedies, it’s just that it’s nowhere near a top priority right now. If Russia stops being a crazy asshole, things farther away from my country’s borders may become more important to me. Still, note that if what I’m suggesting is true, Putin and Russia are partially to blame about what’s happening In Gaza. With a handle like yours, you probably cared about Gaza already before Putin’s manipulations, but half of the eyes of the lefties in west were looking at Ukraine. They are not looking at Ukraine anymore, like they should be doing.

Truth to be told, geopolitically speaking it seems much more sane to be on Israel’s side because they’re against Iran, who’s on Russia’s side. And Palestine seems to be kinda on Russia’s side as well so remind me again why I should support them at all?

Please put an age restriction on politicians, it would solev sooo much nonsense.

While I partially agree on this, let’s consider some cases:

• Hitler’s reign 1933-1945, his age: 44-56
• Stalin 1922-1952, age 44-74
• Putin 2000-?, age 48-?
• Pol Pot 1963-1981, age 38-56
• Louis XIV 1643-1715, age 5-77 or 16-77 if you count coronation as the start (sacre bleu jesus fuck)
• Xi Jinping 2012-?, age 59-?

Youth is clearly not enough. Age limit + term limit might be a useful combination, but it all falls down when you allow somebody to just grab all power anyway and reset all the rules and limits, like Putin and Xi Jinping have done.

Who knows for sure? But we can assume that Putin had something to do with Hamas launching the strike just by the fact how much it helped him. It did cause half of the world to turn their eyes away from Ukraine, to believe that Gaza is now the most important crisis on this planet.

You forgot the worst one: Putin, age 72 years.

I wouldn’t trust encryption made by anti-vaxer

My understanding of encryption is that the point is that you don’t have to trust the people doing it. You just have to trust the security research community that proved that the algorithms/protocols work. Or if you’re a hardcore security guy yourself, you can review it yourself.

Also, my understanding of people is that what they seem like is no evidence for what kind of people they really are.

Ah, too bad. That was perhaps too much to ask.

Although I don’t totally oppose judging people because of their views (shaming has been and can be a very useful for improving societies), I wonder if software written by such people should be. Seems to me that we don’t have the abundance of software yet that would allow doing that.

Especially I’m wary of judging people for being dumb in applications like Twitter that use dark patterns to entice them into being dumb. In some way it feels to me like punching down, like blaming the victim.

I like the concept of delta.chat the most. Anyone here use it? Any reason why it hasn’t caught on?

Could it support technical FOSS channels with thousands of participants, like what IRC was awesome for and Matrix seems to be pretty ok at?

It would take hundreds of millions of dollars to make Matrix as shit as Discord is.

https://www.businessinsider.com/palantirs-ceo-alex-karp-is-a-self-described-socialist-2018-11

He referred to himself as “socialist” in 2018, apparently.

You’re part of the problem.

Says the guy with the flag of Russia on his name. My irony detector went supernova.

But hey, props to you for not hiding it like many others here do.

I think it’s a real war already: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

Captured or arrested is the word you’re actually looking for. Or, as it currently stands, released.

By having a charging station at home, I guess.

Don’t be left?