I also cannot believe how people looking like doing deep research for the topics cannot find out about different approaches than big corporate apps and old school way of forums/IRC.

As someone who got into Fediverse and FOSS social media months ago I have seen more great things already implemented and working than articles/vidoes like that are just making ideas about.

I still don’t like centralized corpo silo nature of Reddit, but must say the new logo looks far better and alive.

Imagine a world when instead of

adding DWORD value of 32bit lenght named AllowCortana with value 0 to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Windows Search in registry editor,

we could do “sudo dnf remove cortana”.

Not using products made to milk you to the rescue.

Crazy to say this, but what got me into free and open source software was Telegram ecosystem. And what got me into Telegram was stickers, animations and other eye candy.

Matrix aims to be a protocol for mostly real-time things like chat and voice/video calls.

It has a data structure called rooms (think: chat rooms) that are spread out across multiple servers and the servers synchronize the content between each other. While ActivityPub (what most of Fediverse uses) is much simpler and just list posts adding API for interactions. Matrix aim to be a fabric to build decentralized alternatives of Discord, Zoom, WhatsApp, Google Classroom, Jamboard, Google Docs, etc.

Unfortunetly for most people “go back to smaller online communities” would probably mean going from XTwitter to a Facebook group…

Apple is scary not because what they do, they’re doing great, but what they can do once PR departament allows.

They massively block some kind of apps (like they blocked VPNs in China) and what would houndreds of millions of people do? Throw away their expensive phones? And go buy, what, the one from Google?

Don’t trust anything that came preinstalled with the device and does not have an option to uninstall.

Why would I use a PWA on the desktop?

How Freenet declares itself as a replacement of WWW and Internet, while what is does is delivering WWW sites on the Internet…

Across all two of them.

I would really like to see how broken the web would be if someone in theory create a new complete implementation of the basic standards.

Any website that does not work in Lynx is just bad design.

Right, Tor project cannot shut down a relay, but can make most of the network not use it.

I don’t know how PeerTube name video files for S3, but if they are random strings then maybe you could disable file listing and with proper rate limiting those names basically become a password.

That’s how media storage works on Discord or Matrix. All files user upload have public links, but names are long enough to be not possible to brute force.

Yes, should escape from using Windows if can. But this is just news, why automatically there must be a comment like that?

The way Windows buil-in text editor colors and formats JSON files in 2023…

Makka Pakka

What’s Matrix?

A communication protocol with main focus on chat applications. Sort of a specified and documented way how apps communicate with servers and server with each other.

In other words: A network on which you can chat with app of your choice on server of your choice. In other words: Fediverse, but for real-time synchronized things.

On Discord you are forced to use single proprietary app from single provider (that btw is really close with China’s Tencent) and to use their infrastructure. Basically using Discord is trapping yourself and friends into the will of giant company because chat systems are hard to switch.

With Matrix you can choose between many apps, but most importantly you can can choose a server or even create your own.