Too heavy and bloated, and too centralized in its design philosophy, not to mention big capital flowing through Matrix from Israel and the issues with metadata making it a privacy disaster.

Here’s a blog that agrees with me so I don’t seem lazy: https://lukesmith.xyz/articles/matrix-vs-xmpp/

I get your blogger’s concern over OMEMO versions being out of whack and their encryption choices being all over the place, but other than it being somewhat of a mess, I don’t see how it devalues the service as much as he thinks. (a bit melodramatic imo) I’ve yet to meet someome whos client can’t decode my messages or mine theirs and I’ve never heard of any successful hack, but maybe maybe.

Mexico actually sounds kinda brilliant, but who seems important. OVH has servers in Mexico, but I can imagine some hosters would get the Feds on the line and go “sure, here’s his data”.

I’d almost say lol, get a VPS in China.

The enemy of my enemy is my friend, and they have zero say over what I do, only what they do. China could demand and scream and bitch all they want over an encrypted set of programs and you’d never have to care, move to another domain and provider and copy-paste. Lock it down, only use it with encryption and let the wolves huff and puff until they’re blue in the face.

…run a country by myself? I suppose it’s possible.

So, need a non-homicidal, non-EU country to run an XMPP server then…

Good, make it as terrible as possible.

Does it matter? Yes! Goddamnit! I’ll buy a Toyota next time! FUCKING HELL!

Oh, this is actually based, they were right all along, holy fuck!

man with gaping wound in his skull pissed that people keep suggesting he go to a hospital.

“Just like I told you, insufferable hospital maxxis, I swear!”

Eh. PCSX core ain’t broke. Whatever. I’ll live.

If people had used cryptocurrency as a currency instead of as a “it’s totally not a security, we swear, even though we’re only saying that to evade SEC regulations a little longer”

…LTC definitely has been. Monero has and is. BTC’s fall was a massive pullback on an extremely new and volatile idea that not even half the buyers entirely understood. BTC now is held up by ETF funds, private equity and everyone that cares putting a few chips in. Is it a scam now? Is everyone scamming everyone?

…there’d be a lot fewer people calling it a scam. For sixteen years, crypto’s only use cases seemed to be buying illegal goods and securities fraud.

Some would call that decentralization and freedom. Spin it however you like. lol, “Illegal goods”. Fuck the system, unless it’s not against the grain of the community, right?

Finally, we have another use case presenting: perfectly legal transactions that credit card companies have gotten cold feet about.

They deserve every negative degree.

Not every country has a corrupt securities administration. Don’t push your third-world Americanism on others like its their problem.

Riiiight, let the fascists lead by example? lmao

I got robbed!

blames the currency

“God forbid I take responsibility for my own recklessness!”

If only there was a method of paying people in a private and decentralized way, possibly maybe even… cryp"SCAM!"

“SCAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM”

sits back down

edit: fuck American fascism! hugs the dollar for dear life

so which is it? 🤔

Guess they need to work on their authoritarian hellhole of a country.

~American

record scratch

I was under the impression linkwarden just saved… links.

Entire webpages? Do tell!

Careful! Some of us are capable of flipping the package over and reading.

Just buy store brands and you’re 80% of the way there.

Not many people today remember when Google was actually useful. Once upon a time.

They’re a godsend for camping, and would be legendary in a disaster event.

There’s a yo mama joke in here somewhere, I can feel it.