I fully agree with you and I’m not saying this in their defence but Element is not owned by Matrix either right? It’s owned by another (for-profit?) party and in fact Matrix (Foundation) doesn’t maintain any clients whatsoever.
I guess it has something to do with “client neutrality” and the protocol not being defined by / tied to a “reference implementation” which I can get behind, but it’s hurting users in the end as you said.
Hopefully things should get a whole lot more stable with Matrix 2.0 and which may incentivise people to put in more effort into writing better and more polished clients.
> Since the outset of Matrix, our aim has always been to provide a protocol that lets you build open, decentralised, secure communication apps which outperform the mainstream centralised alternatives. It’s been a twisty journey - first focusing on making Matrix work at all (back in 2014), and then getting it out of beta with Matrix 1.0 in 2019, and now focusing on making Matrix fast, usable and mainstream-ready with Matrix 2.0.
I see, thank you!
Are there any iOS apps?
Neat! Is this like Hacker News but federated?
Interesting, not sure why. Try the following:
I think you’re referring to ForgeFed.
I don’t have a straight answer but the work is still in progress just fine, as far as I can tell. Here are some pointers if you want to dig deeper:
- [FEAT] implement federation (codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo#59)
- The monthly reports
- Issues and pull requests tagged with
forgejo/federation
I feel very similar with regard to blockchains, however I didn’t want to throw the baby out with the bathwater. I think (or rather hope) that there are some cryptocurrencies/blockchains that are actually useful/interesting to discuss. Certainly agreeing with you though.
Why not, go for it! Just be careful about copyright infringement as it's against lemmy.world ToS.
Consider it at least federated? :)
I've an account on dbzer0 too and often lurk there as well, however I wasn't sure about its longevity given the amount of piracy-related activity going on there.
All things and everything about decentralization: news, announcements, proposals, and discussions about decentralized apps, protocols and communities. - decentralized web (dweb) - peer-to-peer (P2P) - file-sharing (e.g., BitTorrent, IPFS, and Gnutella) - self-hosting - federation (e.g., ActivityPub/...
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What
All things and everything about decentralization: news, announcements, proposals, and discussions about decentralized apps, protocols and communities.
- decentralized web (dweb)
- peer-to-peer (P2P)
- file-sharing (e.g., BitTorrent, IPFS, and Gnutella)
- self-hosting
- federation (e.g., ActivityPub/Fediverse and Bluesky)
- federated apps (e.g., Mastodon, Lemmy, and Pixelfed)
- cryptocurrencies (e.g., Bitcoin and Ethereum)
Why
I've noticed that although a lot of people are interested in decentralization, there aren't many forums where people can share news and discuss and develop projects together. Reddit used to have /r/Rad_Decentralization, /r/DarknetPlan and so on but the 2023 Reddit API controversy was the the final nail in their coffin.
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New features coming to the future of self-hosting internet archives: a full plugin ecosystem, P2P sharing between instances, Cloudflare/CAPTCHA solving, auto-logins, and more….
This is a brand new project so I'm sure no apps are using this yet or even have plans to.
Yep, vectors. See https://github.com/onthegomap/planetiler
You mean how much faster downloading vector tiles are in comparison to raster tiles?
I think pre-rendering makes the biggest difference, rather than the type of tiles.
OpenFreeMap – Open-Source Map Hosting lets you display custom maps on your website and apps for free.
This is the last minor release before v7, but it's packed with interesting new features! Let's have a look :) Separate audio and video streams for mor...
> This page is intended to collect information, ideas and comments related to adding BitTorrent functionality to the downloading of package files by Apt.
The author is talking about the server use-case here but it’s not any better for desktops either. I think it boils down to the fact that neither of these operating systems are designed for a single-user world like Android (or any other modern mobile OS) and so these security solutions are shoehorned into a world where they don’t really fit into. Because those (server or desktop) programmes have different set of expectations about what’s available to them, than say, an Android app that knows that it has to ask for permission first.
“We’ve never seen traffic like this.”
ActivityPub :) People spend an incredible amount of time on social media—whether it be Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, TikTok, and YouTube—so it’d be nice to liberate that.
Brave's IPFS local node support has a cost to Brave in terms of support and maintenance, distribution of binaries, and node updates. For each Kubo node update we need to sometimes change things in ...
> Brave's IPFS local node support has a cost to Brave in terms of support and maintenance, distribution of binaries, and node updates. For each Kubo node update we need to sometimes change things in code, get it QA'd and get release management to release it. > > It is nice to support things, but we do need to also acknowledge that doing so takes away from other things we could be doing. P3A data is showing we have 0.1% local node and 0% gateway setting. 99.9% of people are on an Ask setting which means they’ve never used IPFS. > > It also opens up a larger attack surface because there's more code and things running on a users's machine for those that opt into it. This issue is to track deprecating and removing the local node support.
OpenAI
I think OpenAI has always been a for-profit private company despite its name.
Probably meant CSAM (child sexual abuse material) instead.