I wonder how many people are found nowadays by searching vs being delivered by the algorithm.

Came looking for this comment and was not disappointed.

Technically, nothing.

In practice, who do you know that’s using it and doesn’t run Arch, by the way?

My point isn’t that IRC/XMPP aren’t technically capable.

It’s that they’re not designed for non-technical users.

I want corporate social media to die. Mastodon and Piefed are far from killing the beast, but they’ve made the more progress than most projects have seen in a long time.

I want corporate messaging to die. Matrix is far from killing the beast, but for a little while, at least it was trying.

I wouldn’t mind going back to IRC roots if it could be made more user friendly and integrate voice and video chat.

Good UX/UI goes a long way to make it so non-technical people can join and strengthen the network.

Damn. That sucks. (Edit: Referring to the comments saying Matrix is dead and dying.)

I get that IRC and XMPP are more stable and built around federation from the ground up, but… they’re not Discord replacements.

That was IMHO, the point of Matrix/Element.

Tell me if I’m wrong, but a significant part of a network’s resilience is the number of nodes and users.

Without a glowup or some kind of repackaging, IRC/XMPP are doomed to stay niche.

X-Men is ripe for nightmare fuel if you think about it long enough. Kitty Pryde is constantly one mistake away from becoming a gel banana.

So we’re either Team comfort+able or Team comfor+table?

It works okay for audiobooks, but if you want it to save your place and track chapters, audiobookshelf is better.

Best I could find, they reposted an animation @gianmarcogg03 made using their software:

https://floss.social/@[email protected]/114609653965978373

In two years, only these two guys thought of buying more shampoo.

Maybe they saw the phone and thought “ah, he’s already covered.”

Your Honor, I rest this guy’s case.

I think it’s less the interaction with currently established economies and more that it would never pass without lobbyists Congressmen sabotaging the law to make it fail and then using that to say, “See!? UBI doesn’t work (when you set it up to fail)!”

I think it’s normal to not be into stuff.

Hating stuff that you have the option to not interact with seems like extra work.

Except you can’t escape alphanumeric characters, so this implies people should do unnecessary extra work (to find the \ key).

If you want people to use tone indicators, Keep It Stupid Simple.