Matrix works a little like email, but instantaneous and secure:
You need to register an account at a provider
Whatever your provider is, you can talk to people using other providers
In the same way you can use Outlook or Thunderbird with the same email account, you can use different Matrix apps for the same Matrix account.
Several apps exist, but we're going to go with Element for the sake of simplicity, as it's among the most fully-featured Matrix apps on the market.
Once you are more comfortable with the basics and if you want to use another app, head to the clients section of this website.
Federated protocols are not centralized in principle. It might not scale to one user-one server (which probably even Lemmy can't handle) but if you're signing up for a central server, you're doing it wrong(tm). Don't do that. The nice thing about Matrix client is that it allows end to end encryption, including groups. So that greatly limits what Mallory can do in principle. As to servers being costly to run, given what documented Synapse requirements are, you're looking at less than 5 EUR/month for a single server. Which can be shared among several users, obviously. This is in the same range as costs for a monthly VPN.
Thanks -- I don't believe in buying expensive hardware for a sacrificeable personal device. Which is why I lag model-wise, my new Pixel 7 a was 335 EUR which is borderline acceptable.
You might want to check out GrapheneOS, a security-focused alternative ROM for Pixels. It's minimalistic, easy to install and has been painless so far.
Elvanse/Vyvanse are capsules packed with powder. You can carefully twist them open, gently get out some powder upon a teaspoon by squeezing the sides of half capsules until the desired (eyeballing the size is easy enough) amount is out, and then close up the capsule again for later consumption. The powder is slightly bitter to taste.
It does matter because you have to cover a lacune of 6-8 weeks from fossil sources. Typically these are gas turbine peaker plants at low duty cycle which need to be subsidized.
Attacks on centralized hydro and coal power plants are effective, but expensive since requiring several large ballistic rockets with 300-500 kg high explosive payloads.
In contrast to that you can take out a large PV module field for about 30 k$ with a mass produced item like a Geran-2 with a cluster munitions payload. This can't be cost-effectively protected against, so rebuilding the plant doesn't help. Attacks taking out vulnerable centralized parts like speciality high voltage transformers which are difficult to source are synergistic, since causing grid partitioning events and potential cascading failures due to overload.
It's a federated communication protocol and open source implementation thereof, including servers and clients.
https://matrix.org/docs/chat_basics/matrix-for-im/
What is it?
Matrix works a little like email, but instantaneous and secure:
You need to register an account at a provider Whatever your provider is, you can talk to people using other providers In the same way you can use Outlook or Thunderbird with the same email account, you can use different Matrix apps for the same Matrix account. Several apps exist, but we're going to go with Element for the sake of simplicity, as it's among the most fully-featured Matrix apps on the market.
Once you are more comfortable with the basics and if you want to use another app, head to the clients section of this website.