ProdigalFrog

Yikes. I loved that framework trailblazed repairable laptops, but those responses are pretty bad.

Edit: it's so much worse now. That thread is flooded with bad faith far-right assholes, who in another thread admitted to trying to silence dissent by reporting comments to get the treads locked, and one called for framework to ban discussion of this issue entirely.

Bitchute uses adhoc peer-to-peer to lower streaming costs, but Bitchute itself has ultimate control of what content is available, moderation, and is ultimately reliant on Bitchute servers to actually host the content that becomes peer-to-peer on demand. The software is proprietary, and no individual can spin up their own bitchute.

Odysee is, like Bitchute, very centralized in practice.

Peertube is the only truly decentralized option that puts the power of hosting and federation in the hands of individuals.

Odysee is owned by a large tech-bro crypto and NFT holding company, it makes sense leftists would avoid it. It is also centralized.

Bitchute is centralized, and allowed fascist and right-wing conspiracy material to flourish when those communities were getting banned from other platforms, putting off leftists from joining. They became the Voat of the video-hosting world.

Peertube is open-source and decentralized, meaning just like Lemmy/piefed, fascist instances can be defederated, isolating them to an echo chamber and protecting the other instances from turning leftists off it.

There are leftist Peertube instances like kolektiva.media, you likely just haven't found them yet.

CEO's are almost universally out of touch with reality, and usually chase trends thinking it will help them get higher profits and garner more investment. AI is just the newest bandwagon for them to mindlessly jump on.

The whole argument at the top of the thread is “it doesn’t matter how easy/good/performant it is to run a XMPP server, if the people you’ll want to talk to do not have a decent client”.

Yes. I don't dispute that an end-user will opt for a more feature-full option regardless of technical problems behind the scenes over a less feature-full option.

My argument is that I think Matrix's fundamental problems that concern the people hosting Matrix servers will eventually, limit its growth, as those problems will be much harder to fix. In contrast; improving an iOS client app is, from a purely technical perspective, much simpler to achieve. I am not making a statement that end-user's will be interested or care about technical details enough to switch their chat platform of choice, unless those details degrade their experience to the point of making them not desire to use it.

I don't use apple products and do not have a good idea of how much progress is being made in that area. It is a legitimate problem that the iOS app is not as polished as other platforms, I do not dispute this. My only point is that it is technically a simpler problem to remedy, were there enough funding or interest by a skilled developer.

If you are not concerned with what I am about the Matrix protocol and its problems, then that's okay. We have differing opinions is all.

It's also pretty awesome that nowadays 4, 5, or even 10 year old computers are still totally viable to use for most use-cases, which would've been unheard of back in the 80's and 90's when hardware had such giant leaps in speed every few years. I'm loving that we finally have some longevity with hardware, and that Linux is able to actually extract that longevity from the hardware in spite of Microsoft's efforts to cut it short.

I'm not using resource usage as an argument for an end-user to switch, the end-user usually doesn't care about technical details. That's more for people hosting servers, who are likely to care somewhat.

The message delays would effect an end-user, and they'll determine if that's too much of an inconvenience or not for themselves. I'm pointing to it as an example of a technical problem that impacts users that seems harder to fix compared to polishing the iOS XMPP app, which was what I initially put forward in my first comment.

If I was to make an argument for why someone should switch away from Matrix, I'd just point to how often encryption fails (I've had continual and significant issues with this personally) and how laggy servers can be. If that isn't effecting someone who isn't technically inclined, then they have no real reason to switch if everything is working for them.

I'm more concerned with the delays and resource usage, personally.

Then why isn’t it?!

The same reason any open-source project that's community driven isn't as polished as it could be; there's only so many resources and time available to improve things, and much of it is reliant on individuals with the needed skillset taking it upon themselves to improve something that bothers them.

Apparently not enough XMPP developers use iOS for them to focus on polishing up that experience.

I think there's also a double whammy of solar/wind being a 'liberal' energy, so any damage done to it will get browny points with the idiots who see it as successfully 'owning the libs', alongside the oil/gas industry bribing them to stifle it as well.

I think something to keep in mind with that issue is that in theory the iOS XMPP app experience can be improved relatively easily, whereas the fundamental problems around Matrix would be much more difficult to fully resolve.

What profit incentive is there for bots that don’t interact?

I always figured they trigger ad views, which financially benefit Reddit itself.

Qt6, actually :D