HW/FW security researcher & Demoscene elder.
I started having arguments online back on Fidonet and Usenet. I’m too tired to care now.
It’s not social media, it’s the algorithms that drives engagement for … profit. “Number must go up.” “The more users the more we can sell ourselves to VCs for.”
That’s why Fediverse is so important. We keep the social, but leave the negative effects behind. Feel free to click on a ragebait title here without your whole feed suddenly being steered in that direction.
Yes, necessarily.
Importantly, your Mastodon or GoToSocial instance isn’t handing your private posts to any random server, just because it asks. The problem only becomes apparent when you have at least one legit accepted follower from a Pixelfed server
The private account would still need to accept a follower from that rogue instance.
If they indeed used personal phones of regular consumer brands then … yeah, I assume zero day exploits would indeed have been used to gain persistent access. It’s at least in the realm of the possible.
Fun fact: The Torah is part of the Moslem faith, being a revelation given to Moses.
You might have a very different definition of “average Discord user” than the average Discord user.
Matrix is a decentralized platform with the same level of security/encryption as Signal. Being decentralized you can run your own server, and chat with others on other servers.
It supports groups, voice, streams etc - similar to Discord/Slack/Teams etc.
Open source. Multiple different server and client implementations. Mobile platforms, “all” operating systems, and with bridges so you can have your IRC, Telegram, Slack, FB Messenger etc channels go to your Matrix account/server.
Are you using the dockerized version? If so it sets up (a) database etc.
How large is large? A few hundreds? Not seeing any performance issues.
Telegram is not a secure messenger.
Yes to multiple platforms, groups etc.
Well if you have a VPS then installing the dockerized Synapse just takes a few minutes.
Might be that I simply don’t believe you as well. I also know a few people running Matrix servers besides myself (Synapse as well as Conduit) and ever since Sliding Sync and clients that support it (Element X, not Element etc) this issue simply doesn’t exist.
I mean, there are quite a few such providers: https://etke.cc/
I run a Matrix family instance. My elderly parents use it as their main way of communicating with us.
Sure, I set up their accounts - but all that difficult to use UX seems to have passed them by completely since they’re very happy with it.
I’m guessing your issue is in your installation.
I can’t speak to your server but I don’t have that issue. It was solved with Sliding Sync quite some time ago.
Your view of Matrix seems a bit weird. AFAIK I can do all the voice/streaming/community in Matrix as well as it’s done in Discord.
Also, no, my server isn’t slow. matrix.org might be, I don’t know.
Isn’t that a client side issue though? Element is just one Matrix client. I haven’t used it myself but heard from others that Fluffychat (another Matrix client) is more like Discord.
Don’t know about “art”, but I use it sometimes to generate contextual imagery for blog posts and videos. I would’ve never hired an artist so the only real difference is that it looks a lot better than when I used to try to draw something myself.