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  • Never cared for the way this fellow tries to argue that everything is too difficult to be useful. I’ve gotten plenty of friends and family on XMPP and the clients that don’t have encryption on by default are easy to remember. Really blowing it out of proportion.

    Honestly, what do security researchers like this even know about normal people? They sit through all kinds of inconveniences to use Facebook. This is a thought experiment.

    Some of these are valid criticisms, of course, a lot of XMPP stuff feels like it from the 2010s. It’s still the only real option. Matrix client or server is bloated garbage, theu moved server fixes into a walled garden, its development is dependent on funding from the USA National Endowment for Democracy technology fund. Signal has similar funding issues and is very shady with its centralization, trust issues, demanding phone numbers. Sets users up to leak all kinds of stuff in notifications like Matrix.

    The strange insistence that only Signal meets their requirements makes me skeptical, as does the way they have operated in Github threads. They seem like an emotional nightmare to work with.


  • Yes, they love this kind of thing. “Erm why do so many people think the RF is the USSR??” Never found out what their basis for this is, maybe they took offence at DPR and LPR guys hoisting the flag themselves. It’s blatantly sidestepping any argument people make about the structure of imperialism in the modern day. They closed themselves off from communists in the global south so that they can engage in pageantry like this. It’s why everyone adores the KKE.