Would it not be better to ask questions in more general communities, and fragment out to smaller communities when we reach a more critical mass of users?

Asking qurstions in smaller communities rarely fetch an answer

You can also set up MollySockets for notifications via unified push!

I agree with your points. I’d much rather a decentralized solution would pop up that would be easy to onboard “normies”.

As outlined in this mastodon thread, you can see a few pain points mentioned, a solution offered, but then there’s a glitch in fluffy chat that doesn’t allow for uName/PW sign up.

Decentralized alternatives are great in theory, but in order to gain the critical mass of users needed for a successful migration, there needs to be a happy middle that results in better/easier UX. Mastodon is much more fleshed out than matrix in this regard IMO as you don’t need to deal with key mgmt, yet you still see users migrating to a less mature platform, Bluesky.

Dessalines also has a good write up on a few of the other alternatives here. https://dessalines.github.io/essays/why_not_signal.html#abandonment-of-open-source

Matrix, however, also exposes metadata that can be used to link who is talking to who

GNUNet seems promising

I wanted reddits IPO to bust soooo bad

The only instance of being hostile to a 3rd party developer was when they used their name (a trademark) open signal I think it was?

MollyIm has been alive and well for years. Are there other instances I’m missing?

Other than that, yes signal is definitely better than WhatsApp with the amount of data they collect.

Depends on the bank. Graphene has support for seedvault backups, or you could use syncthing-fork to sync the data over. Or any one of those Foss airdrop clones

Onprem has always been cheaper. Cloud compute was the most successful marketing campaign I can think of.

When did they claim to be an expert??

I just set up molly today, along with mollysocket and an ntfy server. Liking it so far, just need to get my friends to migrate…

There’s a guide in their subreddit. I was never able to get it to work (set it up like 4 years ago) so I just give iPhone users my apple ID when I’m putting in my phone number

You could probably still get one via a shipping forwarder

I see some older mac minis on eBay for $50-75. But yeah you’d need a mac

You can forward yourself iMessages from a mac via bluebubbles

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stargate_Project

??? 500 billion pledged privately

Sure but a 68.4 million tax break is nothing compared to the hundreds of billions pledged privately

Project Stargate is funded via private investment, the US hasn’t pledged any money

Thats the same issue with activity pub, is it not?

I’ve been meaning to try https://github.com/kd2org/karadav out, lightweight server that supports nextcloud applications. Has anyone else tried it out?

What specs are you running it on?

Yeah I havent been able to load the cf verification on my android for like over a week now lol