free software doesn’t necessarily mean federating with other services.

They have stated their reasons why they don’t wanna do it. You might disagree with them or not. But the technology they built is still open. Anybody could take what they created and use it as a foundation that does federate.

Ieft leaning? These orgs sound more like the typical liberal right centrist orgs from america lol

I loved the gulli.com forum back in the day lol.

You just measure the time until the delivery recipe arrives. You can approximate how far away the recipient is. Now you keep doing that while changing your own location (use vpns etc.) and you can slowly get a more accurate location of the target. Now you automate that stuff and also utilize machine learning to interpret the data.

This type of attack theoretically also works with signal or telegram or whatever message service that works entirely without a phone number.

Would highly suggest you to stay away from Matrix and Element for now when it comes to using it with non techies. It‘s simply not there yet. It‘s slow, tedious to use, buggy and the ux is just bad. It‘s also not necessarily more private than the popular choices if used improperly which is imo very likely it you have your aunt use it lol.

Is there any feature of element that you need or why did you pick it? You could ideally just use Signal for group chat and group (video-) calls. Or even whatsapp.

I‘m not really a loner but I‘m also not willing to do much to be included socially if it requires me to do things that I don‘t believe in.

If your fancy night club requires me to be dressed in a certain way i have no interest of getting in. If your barbecue invitation requires me to install an app that I don‘t feel comfortable with I‘m eating potato salad at home.

No. It‘s the opposite of a new world order.

It‘s the old order doing everything to preserve its power.

Why would you use first party messaging apps? Who the hell still sends sms? Just use signal. Easy fix.

High quality plastic bodies are so good. Hard to break and easy to repair. I hate glass bodies.

What do you mean by built in?

Built in to the protocol? Built in to the application?

There is a couple of XMPP clients that implement omemo and/or otr encryption.

Matrix supports encryption on a protocol level. But it‘s relatively flawed.

No brave users don‘t care. Brave proved how untrustworthy they are and in any case their business model is unethical yet they still have a cult like following plus a group of crypto bros that are obsessed with getting digital pennies.

I‘m old so i actually remember this but I‘m old so my memory might be shit but wasn‘t the lawsuit about the fact that microsoft shipped IE wirth windows as a default browser and not about it being too dominant?

I mean yeah Twitch definitely needs competition. It’s just kinda sad when the compition is even shadier than twitch lmao

Turmoil:

It’s a 2d game where you drill for oil, then have some light logistics management to do to load it in to barrels on horse waggons and then sell it. It’s a lot of fun.

How would you even enforce that?

Of course every parent should have an idea of their kids are doing on the internet or at least educate their kids to such a degree that they don’t require supervision and can be trusted use the internet responsibly. But that is just common sense and should fall in to the general responsibilities of a parent.

I mean I don‘t want to discourage anyone from trying it out. I believe that the protocol is the future of messaging and I really want this to be the next big thing. But you need some masochism to acutally use it day to day. It‘s just not there yet. But give it a shot.

I use it everyday and it‘s still an absolute mess of a service.

Literally nothing works reliably :D

To be fair it might work a little bit better on android than on iOS and Desktop but the people I chat with that use android complain about the same shit.

I use it everyday on 3 different devices and it‘s a mess. :D

First of all it‘s slow. Like really slow. Sometimes loading a room takes 20 seconds.

Nothing really works reliably. Currently I‘m unable to leave a chat for whatever reason. Sometimes (like twice a week) the encryption just breaks. Every single message gets marked with a red excalmation point, saying that the keys are missing. The app keeps telleing me that I have unread messages even though i‘ve read all messages. I then have to mark every chat as read a couple of times. Sometimes only clearing the cache of the app helps. That happens every day.

There is probably more but that‘s what came to my mind first

Oh yeah…the service has privacy issues too when it comes to meta data. I feel like the bottom line here is, that Matrix/element are not there yet. It‘s very much alpha software that is not suitable for everyday use outside of nerds that enjoy the pain.