I’ve been experimenting with the Git bare repository method and I think it solves all my problems! Thanks very much. If I run into issues again, I’ll for sure check out GNU Stow.

https://petition.parliament.uk/

Why use change.org versus the Government’s official petitions page, where they have to respond if it receives over 10k signatures or debate it in parliament if it receives over 100k signatures?

I haven’t read all of this, but why do they insist on using Google? Analytics that are disabled by default and non-Google would probably be fine.

Is it something inherent to Zig that makes Outfieldr faster, or is it just written well? I don’t know much about Zig

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and this websites helps them

That looks like exactly what I want, thank you! Do you know of the ConBee is open source?

Keybase

My website weighs around 2kB and is written in pure HTML/CSS. You can check out the code on my GitHub

I read the posts he linked to, damn. From noticing a tiny bump in February 2020 to having a ~1 year life expectancy in March 2021, that’s awful.

Delta Chat does look really cool. Like you said, it’s client (testing on iOS) is nice. It’s a shame their desktop app is Electron though.

Element the client is garbage, I was talking about Element the organisation formally known as New Vector, who develop and maintain the Dendrite homeserver

Wire was mentioned in this thread. It transferred ownership (which in itself was shady) and its new owners are shady too.

recently went down half a day

It was more like ~3 days

Not well versed in this, so this may be inaccurate, but the other issue is that the Server relies on and uses other AGPLv3 software (e.g. storage-service), so if they want to use the latest versions of each they also have to release all the latest changes to the server under AGPLv3 (which is why Google avoid AGPL like the plague).

I linked to that thread in my post

Hydrogen, while not stable yet, will hopefully be much more useable over slower networks including Tor: https://github.com/vector-im/hydrogen-web

I have a lot of thoughts about this but don’t really have the time to reply.

All I’ll say is that I hope you’re following Element’s progress with Dendrite closely. I host my own Dendrite server and it is much more reasonable in terms of resource usage versus Synapse, and it hasn’t even had any resource optimisation features implemented yet.

You say you disagree with the default clients idea, but why?

At most it is a branding/marketing problem

I don’t know why you’re so dismissive of this issue. I feel like you’re framing me as if I’m anti-XMPP when that isn’t the case; on the contrary I use XMPP and am a Prosody server admin. The reality of the situation though, like I’ve said above, is that next to nobody uses XMPP, even in tech communities. At this point “branding/marketing” could end up being the be-all and end-all of the entire protocol.

As for the other two points: that is both false and outdated.

You’ve misinterpreted my comment. I am very well aware XMPP has and has had e2ee support, the issue is that XMPP clients never have this switched on by default, in my experience (which was testing every XMPP iOS client there is, the platform most my friends use).

The legality of this is unclear. If their silence on this topic isn’t because they’re trying to do their best Apple role-play (which is most likely, imo), the cynic in me says it’s because they acknowledge they should publish the source ASAP in compliance with the AGPLv3.