Yes. I wanted to write max.

They killed Cortana?

The NGO is a decoy organization with exactly the same people (minus one) as the VC funded startup. Go look at the “core spec team” and find out which organization they belong to.

Your information on XMPP seems to be quite outdated. File transfer in XMPP is now mostly done by uploading the file via HTTP and sending the URL. Audio calls are done using WebRTC and work two ways.

Every website has access to the password you use on that website. ALWAYS use unique and randomly generated passwords for every service.

“protocol extensions” (aka: incompatible)

Reality shows that implementations can very well implement the same extensions. If you don’t use extremely outdated clients you will find they do have compatible file transfer and A/V calls. ActivityPub works the same way.

Meanwhile Matrix Ltd. cooks up a completely new, incompatible protocol instead of building upon existing internet standards.

I don’t see the reason we need a venture capital funded bloated protocol anyways. Just switch to XMPP. It’s much more lightweight and it’s the internet standard for instant messaging.

XMPP works well and the community is actively developing server and clients. There aren’t any big corporations funding it anymore that’s all. Still the best instant messaging protocol in 2023.

Here is what I used before I switched to desec.io: https://gist.github.com/haansn08/50565768c66c5fbf382b2bc2484e8a41

tar + netcat are really nice. Not very secure but gets a folder from A to B using standard tools.

feddit.uk seems to be online.

It’s just a link. The app does not show any reviews. Still a bad sign in my opinion, but pretty acceptable for now.

Didn’t even mention Mastodon once.

Please don’t get worked up over a 4chan post…

I will never use any instance that federates with instances that federate with instances not run by someone as a hobby. Imagine what could happen if they threaten us to defederate!

Set the default download folder to /tmp. In the rare case you actually will need a file you download later, copy it to a better directory.

How do you know? We should fix this on the software level.

There should be an option to make posts instance-local for such things.

I don’t see any spam from threads.net.

If a user blocks a domain I suppose their content isn’t send to that server anymore I hope?

I’m not sure I understand your question or why you think of those statements as being exclusive. I will try to answer separately.

is the fediverse a service that should allow Threads/Meta

The good thing about the Fediverse is that it isn’t a single service, but many federated ones. For any single instance, I think not defederating maximizes user freedom: A user who wants to interact with Threads can do so while a user that doesn’t want to see any content from Threads can block their domain.

is it like XMPP and doesn’t have to be popular

I think it’s a little bit different from XMPP, in a sense that the Fediverse is a public space where I communicate with strangers, so I would like it to be popular at least among people with shared interests. For instant messaging I just need my friends there, but sure it would be easier if I didn’t have to show everyone how to create an XMPP address and what client to use.