When a bridge works like the discord and the Signal and WhatsApp ones it’s amazing not to need to log in to those services anymore just to see if someone wrote something to you.

Sadly most of the bridges are either broken like the Facebook one or straight out don’t work like she KakaoTalk and WeeChat ones because the services remove capabilities which before made it possible in a hacky way.

I run it on Ubuntu and installed it with apt about 7 years ago and had zero problems, it updates itself when I run apt upgrade, it turns itself off for a couple of seconds and then it’s back up.

One cool thing is that I had no idea that this happened until I just read it on their blog even though me, my friends and family use Matrix extensively.

But all my friends who are on Matrix host their own servers because it’s quite easy, and my family uses my own server, only my brother uses a matrix.org account, but he doesn’t write much.

This is decentralization working as it’s supposed too, when enough participants are federated and not centralized.

On Lemmy the lemmy.world and the piefed.social instances are similar to matrix.org and I think all of them, including mastodon.social should close new registrations. I mean the flagship instances have their place in the beginning, but once they become so big they should be locked. The teams behind them can open another instance if they want to keep growing, but they should be run on a separate infrastructure to prevent bringing them down at the same time.

Yes instances can be defederated, but on a single user instance you get defederated because of what you did, not because of some other people did.

What do you mean have no reach? I’m on a single user instance and can write to any community on any instance I want.

I’m lucky enough that Linux is one of the half official OS which are allowed and half supported at work.

I’m even more lucky that IT isn’t tech savy enough to be able to do to the Linux installations what they do to Windows and Mac where they preinstalled some rootkits and don’t give you admin rights.

Therefore I’m a Linux enjoyer without involvement of IT. I need to fix all my problems myself and do security and backups myself, but that’s a price I’m more than willing to pay.

For the first time, China’s Ministry of Commerce issued policy announcements in documents only accessible via domestic software last week

There was a possibility to start sharing in a open format so everyone can read it. But they chose to use one even more closed then Microsofts format.

I wonder why, Jesus also served his wine on parties like weddings and so on.

Communism: stateless, classless and moneyless sociality. DPRK: totalitarian hereditary dictatorship

They are not the same.

Everybody loses their memories all the time.

You are not your memories, it’s not your memories which define you.

Static page generator is already half way to a blog with a database.

It wasn’t better. Static pages are just boring, you read it one time and then that’s it. Not enough people can write plain HTML so it would matter.

The internet today with Lemmy, Mastodon, etc. is way closer to what Tim Berners-Lee imagined that everyone would be a publisher, not only consumer.

From what I gather it is to look more authentic and in the moment, unprepared.

I support your plan to end the war in Gaza which achieves our war aims.

Uhm, who wouldn’t support an end which archives their war aims? Putin has said many times that the war would be over in an instant if the Ukraine would just give up.

Having said that, if this really stops the genocide then I would be really surprised but also very thankful and it would be one of the very few pluses on Trumps side in my book.

The land od the free!

I mean, someone has to do it.

Israel is clearly a terrorist state and the people living in Israel need to do something about it. I know it’s not easy but it’s necessary.

I saw how impossible it was to actually take the WhatsApp call for Zuckerberg himself.

Critizism of Genocide is the opposite of hatespeach.