All files stored on IPFS are public. It’s also incredibly slow and inefficient. You would be better off using BitTorrent.

Hm not sure what to make of this. The author of the article states pretty clearly what company they are affiliated with. The comments seem to push a product called Splunk which doesn’t appear in the article at all.

Lemmy is the only community I know where claims of “toxic extreme leftist” cannot easily be dismissed.

I haven’t recognized any posts as covert ads here I think. Can you give an example?

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Your information on XMPP seems to be quite outdated.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.

“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 If you don’t use extremely outdated clients you will find they do have compatible file transfer and A/V calls.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.

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

If the instance defederates, users do not have an option to interact with the defederated instance anymore. The only choice you have then is to join an instance where the moderation policy agrees with your values or host your own instance. If you just want to see if defederation was the right idea, you could just visit those instances directly and look at their local timeline.

Texstudio + git > Overleaf

Sync between devices. I only read RSS on one device so I don’t need it either. Besides if you don’t think a service is useful to you why do you host it?

You could seed the Torrents by the internet archive.

Isn’t Bluesky much smaller than Mastodon?

But it gets easier with every thing. You learn the more general concepts too.

I have spent […] thousands of hours trying to setup various different services on various different platforms

I don’t believe you. If you spend that much time on something you get good at it.

Please leave Lemmy, your kind is not welcome here.

Settings > Default Font. (This is a serious answer for Firefox 120).

Facebook, mostly. For China it’s WeChat.

We can only imagine how the internet was to the natives before the eternal September.

It’s a good thing nothing critical depends on this, then!