Works ✅

Because it's not true, and hasn't been true since 2018 at the latest.

Screen share works, although some browsers don't capture audio

Resource usage is a common complaint for Synapse hosters, you might find something like Continuwuity more lightweight

Matrix is just as much as a standard as XMPP, if not more so because extensions actually get merged into the core spec

Certificate transparency, unless you use wildcard certs

Fun fact: soulseek is still running, and you can use nicotine plus today. Still one of the best places for music sharing.

The clue there is 70% goes to labels, not artists - large rightsholders who already have wealth taken a massively disproportionate amount of that, so the artists you listen to get fractions of a penny. They make far more when you buy a CD or go to a concert.

All of the other answers mentioning coturn here are wrong - your friend is trying to call you using element call, which needs an instance of a livekit and a JWT micro service to grant permissions to use the livekit instance. You can use a livekit cloud account, but you do need to host the JWT service. I would suggest looking up Element's documentation

Yep, that's the point described in the linked paper - traffic goes via the same domains used for their app, and the messenger is embedded in their app

This whole article was sprung from a discussion of exactly that case, because users often simply don't delete notifications. It's very common for users to have years of undismissed notifications stacked up under the notification bell, and it's not a good experience to load them all at once.

Thank you! It's lovely to hear it was helpful to someone 😊