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smileyhead , 9 months ago to fediverse in would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?

No, calling Discord groups/communities/guilds “servers” is not accurate and is totally wrong. You cannot create your own Discord server and Discord would never let you.

It’s like calling Facebook a website hosting, because you can create a “site” on it.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to fediverse in would it be simpler for people if we said "server" instead of "instance"?

I think Discord actually is destroying meaning of “server” for many people. It should be called “communities” or “guilds”. Server is not an abstract division between communities, but an actual machine serving and processing data, so you really can’t create a Discord server unless you reverse engineer their code.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in $5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too

Maps were bought by Google from different company. Photos is AFAIK actually made by them.

smileyhead , 9 months ago to technology in $5,000 Google Jamboard dies in 2024—cloud-based apps will stop working, too

Now imagine if you bought one of these.

Is there any Google project outside of early search and Gmail they did right?

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

I use it with many friends and it is super buggy. Calls work only ok on browser version of Element, bugs in encryption are common where you cannot read a message, Synapse server is bloating the database and not clean after itself, etc.

It’s getting better month by month, but still can’t recommend for your friends that are not technical people into open source. Better wait to not discourage them now.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

Not open source, centralized servers that store messages mostly without E2EE. By using Telegram we are locking ourself in situation where they can turn the knobs as they like, while we can’t do anything about it.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

We have chat standard called XMPP created by literially the same org that makes standards for Internet and Email.

And there are other public protocols to choose from.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

Why does it need to be owned by anyone? There are chat protocols that are public knownleage.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Telegram starts to look like a super app, echoing WeChat

Telegram has the best clients ever. But those clients need to connect to something and this is where we encounter a big problem.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Element X: Ignition

If you don’t know, you can just use matrix.org.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle

If the software would not be propietary, game studios could patch versions they already have so Unity won’t be tamptes to mess with it.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Unity May Never Win Back the Developers It Lost in Its Fee Debacle

Yep. No matter the CEO. The fact the even can do it means they’ll probably try.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Matrix 2.0: Radically faster client, OAuth logins and native video calls

Actually it would be much preffered to just use gifs from the keyboard. It would work across apps and do not bloat messengers.

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification - Cory Doctorow

Just listen to the video itself?

smileyhead , 10 months ago to technology in Whatsapp is going to run terribly...

Because with nonlibre/nonfree/closed apps, user interest is never at the front. It is only considered at the beginning when apps need to gain userbase, then they can exploit it.

Every app that take away user ability to inspect, modify or share it is creating a path for abuse.