and mastodon is still just a copy of twitter with no new features.

That’s what you said, so I was just going off of that.

Oh, when did twitter add CWs that required a clickthrough? The ability to set your own character limit? When did it remove its algorithms to show you posts it considered relevant? When did it become open source? When did it become decentralised and federated? When did it start working on end-to-end encryption for DMs? When did it allow for built in themes?

Thanks for asking!

Well, to give one example: It has a lot of work to do for blind/visually impaired people, at the very least. Most installers do not come with a screen reader or if it does then it often crashes (it also crashes a lot when installed I am told, at least Orca does). Pipewire, which is used primarily for sound, requires major messing with to be used between user sessions as it cares about security over accessibility, and thus is tied to user permissions, unless you modify it to be accessible, which is going to be difficult when things cannot be seen by the user.

There’s a lot of projects for which either patches or the technologies already exist to make things more accessible. However, sadly, a lot of devs prefer new features over fixing things to help make things more accessible. So a lot of people who need such fixes are left behind and thus cannot use linux.

I’m saying that a lot of people cannot switch because linux is not accessible enough, sadly.

Fair enough.

If only linux actually cared about accessibility.

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Yeah. Though we have never used discord due to its lack of e2ee in text messages, requiring a phone number in some circumstances, that shitty nitro thing and personally because we don’t like group chats that much unless they are small and only people we already know.

Plus ioo it has already enshitified with an LLM, and other things that cannot be turned off.

I used it when it was a seperate thing and it had frequent disconnects or at least moments where I couldn’t hear the other person.

However, I don’t tend to use Element for Matrix as it’s large, slow, bloated, has a bad UI and UX, and ironically despite all that doesn’t have all the features I want or need (such as spoilers, multi account in one app/window or easy custom emoji/stickers).

Not sure I’d count Element Call as ‘between servers’ though, maybe it is but I will have to look into it to make sure.

Yes, hopefully they can solve it where so many haven’t. I’ve never met a federated messenger/protocol with reliable voice and video chat between servers as TURN is costly it seems and things like JAMI are ime unreliable, though that’s more distributed than federated.

I think that only centralised messengers are capable of providing such features reliably as I’ve yet to see any evidence to the contrary.

They are working on the client at the moment and the server software work will be worked on when that is done, as currently it’s not working for self hosting or something.

Someone is creating a discord alternative: https://revolt.chat/

It always struck me as odd that there is no way to give to firefox given that anybody can give to thunderbird directly.

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This implies that bad things are comparable. They aren’t, they’re all bad in their own way.

Disgusting.

If they allowed us to give to firefox directly, maybe. Personally we think it is likely that mozilla badly needs to become a worker owned co-op so that CEOs stop taking so much.

Yeah, they really should have allowed us to give to firefox directly a long time ago. Why they don’t is beyond me considering they do with thunderbird.

Stop acting like a tech start-up and become a worker owned co-op instead.

Allow people to give to firefox directly, like they do with thunderbird.

Thanks so much! 🙂