Yes. I wanted to write max.

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

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Your information on XMPP seems to be quite outdated.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 If you don’t use extremely outdated clients you will find they do have compatible file transfer and A/V calls.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

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?

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.

Probably that would be an Android vulnerability.

Not every project needs regular maintenance. I can imagine a keyboard to be a finished product, no updates necessary.

Please stop talking about your imaginary girlfriend, it’s embarrassing honestly.

Not really.

This seems to be more of bank-to-bank protocol than a bank-to-customer protocol.

If you change “number” to “vector” you’d have mathematicians agreeing with half of those.

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.