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Who knows? Maybe the Pope is a geek, and in his free time, he tests then debates about the best Linux distro out there! Or he’s hiding thanks to his peuso that he’s an active contributor to some prominent opensource projects!

You’re talking about that?

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Server

They refuse to federate, and the code does not include any federation mechanism. But it sure looks liberated enough to me.

Same as what it took to have it take the whole market: a better alternative and enough advertisement for a critical mass of people to migrate at once, so that they stay active there.

Then the rest will flock more or less progressively.

Well, if he’s the co-founder and the co-owner, the only thing “they” (I assume the 2nd owner/founder) can really do is try to convince him to leave.

What else would you expect? That he shutdowns the company, drop their customers and fire their employees, then restart the same company with a different name without that individual?
That would be a guaranteed lawsuit, and could actually break even more trust form all parties.

Or just sells his shares and leaves, alone, so that Mullvad goes from “one co-owner funds a far-right nazi party” to “Mullvad now fully own by a nazi-fanboy”? (again: abandoning employees and customers to the good will of that charming individual).

When your interest are fundamentally opposite to facts, science is your enemy. Destroy it, and there is no rational argument to oppose any of your action.

Protectind yourself from beind spied on and then potentially blackmailed is a hostile behavior!

Be innovative and don’t be afraid to break things! Isn’t that how you become a billionaire??

https://github.com/livekit/livekit
It’s a framework to build audio/video AND AI agent interaction.
I guess they just didn’t use the AI part and then it’s a WebRTC framework.

Look, no offense, but had you check the github Readme, or the previous comments, as it is mentioned several times, and you would have found that it is just an integration of LiveKit in their internal communication system, called Tchap, and Tchap is just a customized non-federated Matrix server.

No wheel reinvented.

That’s the new version of “it works on my computer” as an answer to people reporting bugs.

If you are selling second hand, use a different platform. No one is making you use marketplace.

You just lost access to 90–95% of buyers/sellers. How is it going?

There are online portals, calendars, and even emails that notify parents of students and events.

Great! All I need to do now is to convince the school to use them because beat me: I’m not in charge of their communication systems…

You can call you friends and find out how they are doing. You can also email to keep in touch

You must have misread. I do exactly that.

Stop posting everything about yourself and the internet and you should be telling your friends the same.

You must have misread: at no point did I write that I was posting anything. But I certainly don’t dictate my friends what they should and shouldn’t do.

You are just making excuses as to why you need it in your life and I have never had to use it for anything since its inception.

“It works on my computer.”

I see a lot of people saying “just don’t use it”. If it was that easy…

In some places, FB has took the lion share of the 2nd hand online selling. Historical platforms are in agony and your chance of finding a buyer/seller dramatically reduce if you avoid FB maretplace.
In some places, FB is so common that schools, activities etc. are organized on FB. You don’t have an account, no worry: you’ll be the lone idiot to drop your kid at school the day it’s closed because of a snow storm.
In some places, FB is the personal life blogging platform. So if you want to know about old friends you’ve left behind as you were relocating to different countries, you’re going to miss on some quite important events (death in the family, etc.) as that’s where they let people know.
In some places, if you want to build a network, that’s where “everyone” is. You like trekking and want to find a group for that? They’re all on FB. You want to play board games? Groups are all on FB.

The list goes on and on.

That’s ok. This is intended to people with clueless-decision-maker intelligence level.

They can’t take your money but they can bury you into the ground and use you as an example so that no one ever tries to do the same thing. Ever heard of Aaron Schwartz?

Dear Assassin,

Where do I send all the corpses of you and your colleagues? I already have 2 here starting to rot.

Oh, I have traced back your address from your IP.

See you in a few hours!

The “EU” is a set of instances with multiple backgrounds and interests. Multiple bodies can work in totally different directions.

Really? Do you realize how many people we’re talking about? This is where the idea that the human brain can’t comprehend interactions with too many people.

“Multiple indepondant people” might be 5% of the people, some of them under the mob’s effect (wouldn’t engage alone).

Maybe we miss another point of view, but maybe we don’t. This may be a screaming example of what you get as a representative of minorities getting a bit of attention.

“Yeah but science can be proven wrong an change over time, while my beliefs and biases are forever!”

Don’t know if that covers your need, but at least their angle is privacy:

https://puri.sm/products/librem-awesim/

For example:

https://farm.bot/

There are others. Plenty of small/medium businesses just don’t have the resources to develop small computers and the matching software stack. In that regards, the RPi is an appealing choice.

Besides panicking a few regional managers, this can only be a bad news for Meta if other countries, or even better, the EU follows them.

100kUSD/day for a 5.4M inhabitants country, that scales to 8.3M$/day for the total 450M inhabitants EU has (yes: I know that’s not how it works, I’m doing a very gross approximation here).

That’s would be 3B$/year. Now we’re talking!