I just love how the other person immediately knew there could be a difference between the left and the right USB port.
It is easy to cook up your own IM protocol, but for interoperability between providers (which is the whole point of using XMPP or Matrix in the first place!) we need to agree on a protocol. The way we agree on protocols is standardization. XMPP is the proper IETF internet standard for instant messaging while Matrix is effectively just another product by some startup with lots of venture capital funding for shiny clients and marketing.
Also, XMPP servers and clients are also a lot less bloated.
You forget about the first part of the quote: "and you can fool some people all of the time..."
Most users care more about contact discovery than privacy so it makes sense for them to implement it and unlike Signal, it uses #xmpp so everyone has the freedom to use any other app that doesn't require a phone number and you are still able communicate with everyone on Prav.
@Masimatutu Oh nice! I didn't know he was on Mastodon. Or that he was a guy actually.
Does he take bets? I would like to double my life savings please.
@nx2 @fne8w2ah Have you considered hosting a lightweight XMPP server and accessing Matrix through a bridge? https://aria-net.org/SitePages/Portal/Bridges.aspx
XMPP is the internet standard anyways, not sure why Matrix is necessary. Hopefully they become standard compliant soon. Venture capital startups reinventing internet standards in incompatible and inefficient ways is not helping.
Yet most users in public rooms seem to be either bridged from Telegram or Discord. They're not counting those users too, right?
@BartsBigBugBag Yes, people with money have a lot of influence on elections. How do you think we should fix it? Otherwise the index looks pretty accurate to me, the most democratic countries seem to be on the top, the most authoritarian countries are on the bottom.
@BartsBigBugBag Yeah, US is pretty fucked up. Still, all the countries which rank high in the democracy index are pretty capitalist.
Browser: Firefox + uBlockOrigin
Passwords: https://www.passwordstore.org/
Instant messaging: https://joinjabber.org/
DNS: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
Of all the things your tax money is spent on you decided schools were the problem?
@Varyk Fennec is the browser. It's Firefox Mobile with some proprietary stuff removed.
@Varyk Hm maybe using a private DNS works, but no way to be sure: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls/
@Varyk Ad blocking on the mobile internet. I haven't seen an ad on my smartphone for years now.
