I’ve been wanting an Ushanka. I already have a silver Lenin bust.

I have wanted to put original content on PeerTube as well, but it’s hard with my computer situation and being busy all the time. I hope to see more comrades posting content on alternative platforms, especially exclusively. I’m worried about loss of educational digital media on private platforms like YouTube and Reddit as enshittification continues. I’m also worried about archive.org. I depend on it greatly. I hope we archive and preserve media as much as possible on other platforms before we inevitably lose them.

You could replace this chart with a different Western nation and its equivalent parties (or at least scales between the strong left and strong right among the population) and the numbers would mostly match up. It seems to be a pattern, even in Amerikkka, too, at least in regards to the older generations voting more conservative and siding with status quo generally while the new generation of voters have been radicalizing towards the fascist right (especially among young men) as well as the socialists/progressive left (especially among young women and non-binary).

Monocles chat is a fork of Conversations, and afaik the latter hasn’t updated OMEMO 2 for a couple years since this issue was created. This blog post from August 2024 mentions various clients that haven’t updated from OMEMO 0.3.0 to 0.4.0 at the time, and Conversations still seems to not support AES-256-CBC since the commit for this file hasn’t changed for 4 years.

I’m plan to use Profanity (code), but as far as I am aware and have heard, the only other clients to have updated their OMEMO implementations are (KDE desktop app) Kaidan (via QXmpp) and (Windows UWP app) UWPX (code) (also archived January 28, 2024). It would be nice to have a native Android/iOS GUI app that I can recommend to people to use with XMPP and implements OMEMO 2 or at least AES-256-CBC, but I don’t know of any at this time. If anyone here can recommend me such an application, I would be happy.

So based on this table, it looks like aTalk and Moxxy for Android exist, and both have OMEMO 0.8.3 implemented.

From my comment in lemmy.ml in regards to security issues:

Many Signal alternatives also have security issues of their own, often making them less secure than Signal. This includes Matrix and XMPP. In the blog post regarding XMPP+OMEMO, the author replies to a question about which would be better than Signal, Matrix, and XMPP with this suggestion:

Anyone who cares about metadata resistance should look at Cwtch, Ricochet, or any other Tor-based solution. Not a mobile app. Not XMPP. Not Matrix.

In regards to Ricochet, not having a mobile app version makes it difficult to recommend to less tech savvy people.

Credit to @electric_nan@lemmy.ml for pointing me to the blog post.

I also thought of hexbean.net as an alternative, then out of curiosity, I looked up beanis.net, and it redirects to https://bluebear.ltd/

Is this some hexbearian’s site?

Maybe a new name entirely, like

zheleznogorsk.net

I do find hexbear clever, though, if you connect honeycombs and honey-loving bears together

Maybe honeybear with a different tld

I believe the domain will likely be taken back once the owner responds, though.

But hexagons are the best-agons 😞

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