#PlasmaMobile news for April: 3 new #apps, PowerPlant, MarkNote, and OptiImage land in Plasma Mobile; Tokodon invites you to explore #Mastodon; NeoChat helps you organize events through #Matrix with #location sharing; and much, much more.
The fact that you see very little presence of the larger cryptocurrency community on the Fediverse shows the actual interest in distributed systems compared to their interest in making money. A large part of the cryptocurrency community are just VCs or wannabe VCs.
a lot of crypto people don't really carea bout the values, they just want money, like you said
there's like a half dozen blockchains based social media networks fighting for a very small pie at any given time (bluesky, farcaster, lens) and because network effects are what they are, none are winning against big bird
the really hardcore decentralists (like the #monero crowd) vault right past Mastodon to maximally decentralized and encryptable services like #irc and #Matrix
an existing culture in the broader fediverse that's deeply hostile to crypto
Taken altogether, it makes it seem improbable that we'll see crypto communities congregate in the Fediverse
@hywan I don't know why they're banning this client. #Matrix is not a vendor-lock-in service, banning #Element would not stop users accessing it. This is different from WhatsApp or others.
People say that having a #DefaultInstance#makes#onboarding easier, but when I first tried #Matrix, I joined their default instance, and the cesspool that was the default instance made me not want to use matrix for months after.
Seems the same thing is happening with .social... Maybe just have a simple wizard to assign people their first instance instead.
The only thing I need DMs on #ActivityPub / #Mastodon for is to tell someone how to get me on #Signal for private communications. Let's not fall into the trap of #featuritis and the "one App for all". ActivityPub/Mastodon is for one to many communication. Shoehorning one-to-one communication to that feels wrong, IMHO @evan
@jwildeboer@evan the thing is that I would prefer for everyone to use @matrix for that instead of something bolted on to your telephone number. #matrix is so much more #federated and yours than signal.
There's this attitude that Mastodon does everything perfectly when it comes to combating racism, harassment, and other problems, which I find somewhat strange.
Mastodon does well, for example, in enabling server level blocks and defederation and the ability to import (hopefully curated) block lists from other users, although the latter functionality is not obvious to many people.
The number of severs, admins, and moderators also contributes to better human level attention of moderation issues.
@gwynnion This point applies to just about any social media platform. Do you think Twitter/Instagram DMs are not visible to Twitter or Instagram owners? Or that messages you send in Facebook Messenger are invisible to Meta and it's advertising and data collecting machine? Have we so easily forgotten the entire Cambridge Analytica scandal and how large corporations use the data on the social platforms (including private messages) in order to target you with advertising or social campaigns?
It's great that you brought this up in discussion, this just shows the need for everyone to jump ship to a trully private, secure and end-to-end encrypted messenger solution.
There's #Signal which is really easy to set up and use. All you need is a phone number and you're done. #Telegram also encrypts your messages if you use the private chatrooms, and you can also set your phone number to be hidden, and use a user ID instead for searchability. Want even more security and descentralization as well? there is #Matrix and @joinjabber that allow you to pick any server and client of your choosing (Matrix encrypts all your messages by default, on XMPP there is a thing called OMEMO which is server and client (or app) dependent - more details here).
Or you can just create a #PGP key and encrypt the text you want to send on Mastodon like that.
I know it all sounds too complicated for the average folk, on one side, but on the other, if we do not understand technology, it's limitations and it's capabilities, we will never get to use it to full potential.
I put my XMPP address in my profile on this purpose - you can see it if you click on the 3 dots menu while in my profile, then "open original page".
🤦♂️ Great. #Fluffychat is acting super slow when loading a new #Matrix room. I wonder if there's a way I could troubleshoot it quickly because I need to get in contact with #Calckey support to discuss bugs I found.
Introducing Fediverse 201, a new series in which I take a deeper dive in all the other cool products and services on the fediverse that go beyond microblogging, and talk to the creators about their product.
In this first edition: Owncast!
#owncast is a free and open source live video streaming server, that can also connect to the rest of the #fediverse in a variety of ways.
Yeah, streaming content to the masses can be complex & costly, depending on your setup as well as your audience. I think this is where centralized services excel at compared to decentralized ones.
Even #Matrix (which I am a fan of) is iffy at this. But I do believe the decentralized streaming services can reach regions that are often overlooked or restricted (like #China 🇨🇳) which is why they are necessary.
I understand the reason for this - organization and coordination are difficult tasks. And the team responsible for resolving conflicts should not itself be a source of misunderstanding and conflict.
For this purpose #discord is a very useful, but flawed tool. And alternatives (e.g. #Matrix, #IRC, #Email and #Jitsi) have their own issues - some are just down to network effects, others actually lack features making them less useful for coordination.
“Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I’ll launch it. Oh, there’s an update available, so Discord prevents me from opening their appliaction.”
What is the state of notifications on #matrix#element (android) without #google push service? I mean by that havin own matrix server and no google play service on the phone (only frdoid, no microg)
Yo no he podido entender la teoría de la #Matrix que defiende #Musk. Si la realidad es solo un niño jugando #SimEarth ¿Para qué llegar a otros planetas si eso es verdad? De seguro ese es de los objetivos de la simulación y apenas se cumpla se acabará, como en ese juego o en #Civilization.
En cambio, lo largoplacistamente responsable sería mantener la vida en la tierra lo máximo posible (al menos hasta saber si se puede trascender la simulación). https://www.abc.es/ciencia/abci-elon-musk-esta-convencido-vivimos-matrix-201809110239_noticia.html
Just learned about @simplex and I must say it looks fairly promising as a future #InstantMessaging app to replace #Signal in the long run (I do like #Matrix but it's good to see an alternative and their tech looks solid).
I was not 100% sure about #SimpleX ToS, though, and couldn't find out who the company was, nor their business model (though donation is at least a part of it).
#Telegram was blocked in my country (#Brazil) yesterday on all ISPs, and soon they will be removed from App Store and Play Store ... that's why decentralized communication apps are so important, apps like #Session and #Matrix are trending here right now.