There is some difference I see in the management layer, with more dynamic resource allocation in a cloud infrastructure compared to traditional data center usage.

Exactly what I expected from them. The same interests that want chat control are here as well.

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There could be a middlegreound if revolt implemented a central openid user registry, presence indication and e2ee direct chat plus self hosted communities using that login (and maybe optional local registration). And maybe a community overview for public communities.

The take is more like “landed gentry” has too little oversight, they are too independent. They are too far removed from their “king” and dont want to follow his every whim. (If you equate the subreddits to valuable land they were bequeathed)

Newer versions should have a replacable waste tank, but the tank does have a chip with serial number.

The last point does exist, those printers are just more expensive because they are no loss leaders and no ink sales are expected.

Apple will respond with something something RCS coming soon I guess.

There is also an alternative push protocol called UnifiedPush, but not many of the popular privacy focused messengers care to implement it.

Depending on the servers and clients that is no longer true. https://ircv3.net/

Linux and Cups are headed in a similar direction. IPP Everywhere / AirPrint / Mopria only in cups and printer applications for old printers that emulate such a driverless printer

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Here are some interesting lists of alternative instances:

https://jitsi.github.io/handbook/docs/community/community-instances/
https://ladatano.partidopirata.com.ar/jitsimeter/
https://timo-osterkamp.eu/random-redirect.html

By the way, by default jitsi is not end-to-end encrypted if you have more than two people in the call or need to use the videobrige for other reasons. https://jitsi.org/e2ee-in-jitsi/

Update: The e2ee implementation seems to have some issues as well: https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/1118

Firefox <116 is currently not able to use the e2e-encryption, blink based browser already support it. Firefox 117 will provide the necessary infrastructure as well. I don’t know if jitsi would have ot be patched to detect the firefox implementation. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1631263#c58

In the same article where they provided that 1500 number, the developers said they currently do not receive sponsorship money. Continued payout is tied to features that they are delaying in order to improve stability and robustness. They claim that this was practically their dayjob and now they only have the donations as their monthly income, 1500 for two people is not much.

Update: It looks like that number is about double now, about 3000 accross their three donation platforms.