having them understand what a “federated platform” is, is too much to ask
Email is the usual analogy.
trying to find a Mastodon instance to make an account on was irritating.
Your average person will just land on mastodon.social without bothering to read the TOS... i mean rules, you know that.
And you missed a real key argument: network effect. If average person's friends are on platform XYZ, that's where average person will be (although this is stronger with messengers).
Self? Kinda. To others? Don't get caught.
Gentoo's forums are quite active and it's one of my daily drivers. I think the others kinda faded away.
I would've thought a text-based format would be easier to scan...
because email ... is a much calmer version of instant messenger
TIL i guess...
Install the headless version, no GUI:
${EDITOR} /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/99noRecommends
APT::Install-Recommends "0";
APT::Install-Suggests "0";
and then run apt update.
Then install fluxbox session manager, oughta be enough.
XMPP is a bad match.
The X is for extensible, so are a whole bunch of other protocols and people haven't stopped using them, they get improved upon (for the most part).
Opens with:
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is increasingly considering cybersecurity when evaluating software projects
You don't turn on security, but i guess it's better than nothing.
most of the Open Source projects on IRC also moved to Matrix.
No, they moved to libera.chat
Ever given MX a spin on it?
This might help.
For me, VSCode keeps screwing up file encodings in a legacy project i maintain. I tell it not to autoguess the encoding and define a specific encoding to use. VSCode ignores that and keeps autoguessing.
VSCodium honors the settings (and is a wee bit more private and open-source).
Can't find'em in https://ground.news/ either...