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I have used Strawberry recently and it's fine, but it's 2nd place. If I had to switch to something else, it would be my first choice, but I'd rather not if it can be helped.

Oh, I didn't realize that it was sold, but that would explain a lot. Where do we go after it crashes and burns?

what’s wrong with ActivityPub?

End-to-end encryption is still a work in progress there, but also that's more of a social media protocol than a chat protocol.

I'll second this. Funkwhale is basically Fediverse Grooveshark/Soundcloud.

Very true. Everything else I've tried is either lacking features, outdated and/or unmaintained, or uses GTK (shudders). Or the UI is just annoying for some random reason. Cantata has been about as close to perfect as I could hope for.

Thanks. 👍

When you type up a DM on Mastodon, there's a little popup notice that appears next to the text box that says:

Posts on Mastodon are not end-to-end encrypted. Do not share any sensitive information over Mastodon.

IMO the platform handles informing users about this responsibly.

Would be good for breaking some phone addictions, but good luck to the teachers that will have to deal with the withdrawls of the students.

But it’s paid

Unfortunately it's looking like that's going to be the future of things that aren't shit on the internet, whether it's paying for search, or donating every so often to your Fediverse admin to help keep the lights on.

Yeah, you'd expect it to be one of the first things that they implement when making a project like this.

Still wild to me that this feature was missing in the first place.

Come to think of it, are there any noteworthy sites besides tumblr that let you customize web pages like those latter two screenshots? Say what you will about the aesthetic, it definitely has personality.

They actually contribute a lot of useful stuff to the web dev world, like React.js. It's just all the other shit they do that's awful.

I still use Cantata even though development has ceased because I haven't found anything else that I like. I think the general shift to streaming sites has been bad for desktop music players. By the way, does anyone know of an active fork? Would be greatly appreciated.

Relevant article from The Verge on this.

Right, and the rest of us would be able to more effectively filter it out from our instances.

That’d be useless though, because first, it’d probably opt-in via configuration settings and even if it wasn’t, people would just fork and modify the code base or simply switch to another ActivityPub implementation.

No it wouldn't, because it'd still be significantly easier for instances to deal with CSAM content with this functionality built into the platforms. And I highly doubt there's going to be a mass migration from any Fediverse platform that implements such a feature (though honestly I'd be down to defederate with any instance that takes serious issue with this).

Chromebooks expire? What the fuck? Are there logistical problems with installing Linux on these devices?

Yeah I recall that the Japanese instances have a big problem with that shit. As for the rest of us, Facebook actually open sourced some efficient hashing algorithms for use for dealing with CSAM; Fediverse platforms could implement these, which would just leave the issue of getting an image hash database to check against. All the big platforms could probably chip in to get access to one of those private databases and then release a public service for use with the ecosystem.

I don't think that professional content creators are going to like the Fediverse very much. The design inherently limits their reach and there's significantly less money in it for them. I don't think it works as a profession here in its current form.