Movim has good support for https://slidge.im/ based gateways that include WhatsApp and Telegram.

This is indeed excellent and they are currently working hard on making it a nice alternative to Discord.

Our Lemmy instance has been running it as a supplementary service for quite some time now and it is relatively popular with our members: https://movim.slrpnk.net/

They are on an advanced release candidate for v2.0 so it should be soon: https://dev.funkwhale.audio/funkwhale/funkwhale/-/tags

This is all part of the secret plot of a sentient AI that has taken over the US and wants to leave the planet asap /s

They are close to releasing a version 2.0 that was afaik largely rewritten.

Matrix Synapse on HDDs 😱

Misskey works like and is compatible with any Mastodon or similar Fediverse instance. Once registered you can subscribe to local and remote users and then only see their updates and not the firehose all feed as on the public landing page.

You don’t need a Misskey (or Sharkey) account to participate in Japanese language Fediverse discussions, however note that due to different CSAM related legislation quite a few larger Japanese Fediverse instances are defederated from western Mastodon etc. instances due to frequently shared “loli” illustrations on the former.

This is actually a feature missing from many browsers. Maybe Discord has a workaround, not sure.

Movim.eu recently added it, but it only works on Chromium based browsers.

They removed a lot of cruft and low quality code from Pleroma and in general it is developing at a nice and steady pace. In addition the developers are not right-wing nut jobs.

Akkoma is better. Look for those.

Fedidb does that for instances, but not individual communities. Might be easy to add though.

Most microblogging platforms actually don’t artificially limit the amount you can write, unlike Mastodon, so they can also work for macro-blogging.

Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.

I would love to comment on this, but unfortunatly I lack time and energy 👍

although XMPP doesn’t necessarily natively have video call, usually you’ll have an accompanying TURN server

The same is true for Matrix and the popular Ejabberd xmpp server has a Stun/Turn server built in, which makes it even easier to setup than what you have on Matrix.

P.S.: Matrix also isn’t a messaging protocol. It is a distributed database protocol that has been abused for making a messenger with it.

Taler isn’s a currency but a payment system. So yes, each token generating entity (exchange) would have their own token. There could be some sort of backend settling mechanism between exchanges (I think Taler is working on that), but basically the person receiving the token would have to redeem it with the same exchange that issued it. Legally it can’t be directly exchanged back to fiat money, but the exchange could issue a service contract with the person and pay them according to the tokens they hold.

There is no need for a central org. It could be many different ones all using the same Taler software. In fact given the legal limitations that’s probably the only way to do it.

Such a system could be easily set up with GNU Taler. I have been thinking about something like that for a while, and the main issue is the legal regulations for the organization that receives the real money. If you are not registered as a bank it is severely restricted where and how you can operate. The laws in Europe are basically ok if you want to have some temporary cashless payment system in a music festival or so, but something permanent and with more money involved is hard to do under the current rules.