Better than the fingers 🫠

Pocketbase does a lot of the heavy lifting, but yes it is a very nice project.

Thanks for sharing. It has some good thoughts and indeed we need think about what we want to actually achieve and not be shy about it.

But maybe it is better to not think of it as a future goal but rather as reminder of the possibilities. All too often we restrict our thinking to what we think is realistic and that then becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy by itself.

Hmm, real time collab is a pretty cool adition. One of the main reasons why I mostly switched to OnlyOffice a while ago.

Somewhat off-topic: you are now using the iGPU of the 5600g to do video transcoding instead of the nvidia one?

I don’t think that’s a serious problem as people that have so little interest that they leave because of that, would stop using it anyway sooner rather than later.

Of course the migration needs to be at least as easy as on Mastodon. Lemmy is still far from that.

I think this could work if it was a kind of demo instance that after some weeks or so would show increasingly annoying popups to switch to another instance.

The official Mastodon app kinda follows that idea with mastodon.social, just that the annoyance isn’t intentional but a result of their bad moderation and thus spam problem.

Early agricultural societies in the fertile cescent that existed for 1000+ years and build rather large cities and more recent various meso-american ones that existed in a sort of patchwork with others, but which due to the climatic conditions and later pillaging by European invaders didn’t leave much historical records.

Sounds like a good idea. They could already do student exchanges and get some tree seedlings or such.

This is such a sad world view that you have.

And kinda ironic given that you are writing this on a platform developed and run by such highly qualified individuals not because they are paid for it or forced to do it, but because they think it is the right thing to do. And there are so many similar example all over the world, not only in the digital realm. And you know what? People that live somewhere tend to appreciate working water supply and sewerage systems and are willing to fix it themselves if not prevented by some government or company. It’s not that hard to do, and I have personally done it before.

American Indians were mostly killed by the germs that the European invaders accidentally brought. In actual battles the Europeans didn’t fair so well as they were usually vastly outnumbered and the Europeans that defected or got captured mostly preferred to stay with the Indians afterwards. And yes, never trust history written by the winners.

This is not either or. You can store things only until the recipient comes online and then delete it (but Matrix specifically doesn’t do this and conceptually can’t due to its design).

That is not exactly a credible source. To quote the wikipedia on it:

A number of international and Kurdish sources have described Rudaw as affiliated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party, particularly the current President of the Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani.

Rudaw Media Network was temporarily banned in Syrian Kurdistan due to its partisan news and alleged smear campaigns against the Kurdish political parties which oppose the Kurdistan Democratic Party, a ruling political party led by the Barzani family members.

And besides, you are really arguing that a semi-functional, mostly representative organ in the middle of a civil war doesn’t have the resources to maintain sewers?

Some comment by the Element CEO on Hackernews, sorry I don’t have a link right now.

But since it would be optional I am not sure why you worry about that. It wouldn’t change the status quo, which is already bad.

Thats such a silly question that shows a deep lack of understanding what anarchism actually means.

Well… there has been some recent museings about something like that from the CEO of Element, but it would effectively cause a two class federation where some servers can not work independently of others (likely in reality mainly servers running on EMS infrastructure, a bit like how in Bluesky you can’t really work fully independent of their infra, and yes Bluesky was explicitly mentioned as inspiration for that idea).

Having those two options fully independent would basically mean reimplenting xmpp in json as an incompatible alternative protocol and that would make little sense IMHO.

There are historical examples with tens to hundreds of tousands of inhabitants. Those are actually quite common.

Graeber’s book “The dawn of everything” has some good examples.

While Synapse isn’t great, the problem is that the Matrix protocol is over-designed for a very specific purpose (distributed rooms), that comes with a severe performance penalty but most people don’t actually need this for chat.

Its one of these cases of a neat idea on paper, but ultimately a solution looking for a problem.

That said, Matrix isn’t that bad overall, but there are better options like XMPP.

More likely due to extreme AI scraping. That has been an issue with selfhosted Forgejo instances for months now and it is a complete PITA to deal with.