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Mirror? What even for?


Each of them.


You could use XMPP but they don’t have any nice clients
[citation needed]
There’s at least three good clients for Desktop (multiplatform) and two for Android.
Plus, XMPP is the best thing to run service-wise. Relatively cheap, runs on a potato, not a nu-protocol that requires a server cluster and friggin’ npm.


There was a commit posted in another thread by the creator where they specifically substitute thorns (þ) to spite a member of the community who uses them.


opt-out
Shouldn’t it be the reverse? That communities opt-in into this feature? It’s 2025 we all know opt-out by default is bad.


Do not eagerly misread what could be an evidence of the converse - that we already have low policulturalism because of difficulties in implementation and this feature is just going to nail the nail in the coffin.


It’s a crapload more work to support XMPP/Matrix/whatever messaging on any platform than just using a robust, reliable, resilient, widely supported good old SMTP
For the minimal of sending out a message to their accounts, they are just as easy as each other. Heck, there are simple packages to send XMPP messages from the CLI.


Agree. Piefed doesn’t give me much confidence with their “centrist-esque” more-centralized-than-not, and actually has lost some in my eyes since the creator has specifically pushed code for antagonizing one specific member of the community for the sin of [checks papers] behaving in a quirkier way than the average.


Agree, this basically feels like it would generate various dark incentives in the Fediverse. A bit far too similar to the social networks we are supposed to escape from, even.


So thats why whenever I try to find a package in apt, I have to iterate through thousands of simiparly named librust-{dictionaryword}-{component}-dev packages in order to find the simple component I want… Apt repos have really been trying too hard for granularity, I’m pretty sure there are more librust áckages than actual end-user program packages.


Any particular reason why you can’t do something like host a Send instance instead? Better to treat “filesystem behind the network” and “files to share” as two different things: one is imanent, the other is punctual and sporadic.


Only mostly when I want to. Which tends to be on Mondays and Saturdays.
I’m running Sid on servers, so automatic updates are actually a risk. Used to be Debian Stable, but maaan the docker and podman improvements… make me drool.


Google flags F-Droid updates…
Why would people have Google security going on if they have set up F-Droid as their appstore? Doesn’t that defeat the entire purpose?


My condolences! That said Athlons were late 90s (?) cool.
There’s a wide gap of stuff one can do between IRC and “chat with voice channels”. For example, having a better protocol with better formatting options, a moderation API, better account management, other forms of multimedia (page embeds, images).


That sounds like an adventure!


“backups”? Pray tell, fine sir and or madam, what is that?


This week I was setting up an IRC server for a group of friends, but might switch it to XMPP. I also have a v good friend who is hosting a XMPP server that sees very little use and has some good lots of legacy stuff going on, I’ll try to ping them to see if it’s worth to spin something completely new.


This is so nice to hear.
I mean come on it’s that simple.