Simon Müller

Cat and Tech enthusiast from Germany. Account by @cyrus@wetdry.world

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  • yes but active usage doesnt mean it was not used?

    If their criteria was “at least 1 person uses it at all, sometimes” then it would not have been removed 🤔

    likely no maintenance effort at all.

    The maintenance comes less from the code and more from making sure that every single menu added or changed in any way continues to behave correctly in three different sizes with themes and everything.




  • SimpleX is quite a promising project, uses Double Ratchet End-to-End-Encryption (from Signal), and has a very interesting protocol and model to provide quite strong metadata protection, especially in regards to whom you talk to and groups you’re in.

    If your threat model requires exceptionally strong Metadata protection, SimpleX is probably going to be your go-to

    Though, for a more lenient threat model, where still good, but less laser-focused metadata protection is enough, Signal will probably do just fine.

    Personally I use Signal, but I also have a SimpleX Profile, an XMPP Account and Matrix. (preferred in that order)


  • The “NO AI” clause is conditional, though.

    As mentioned in their FAQ, they will reverse that rule when it is “viable in terms of data privacy and ethicality”

    unless the rampant ethical and data privacy issues around datasets are resolved via regulation.

    Whilst they aren’t VC-Backed, their servers already had to do nearly 10 upgrades, their “AI Detection” is backed by another, third-party AI, and it’s not transparent what said service is.

    And to top it off, it’s a closed ecosystem. You upload your art there, and either Cara dies one day and your following is gone, or they change their policies, leadership or anything else, at which point everyone will have to move again

    it’s yet another case where the Fediverse and other Federated networks address the core issue that lead to this disaster - content ownership - better than systems like these do. I’m not hopeful for Cara.








  • If you wanna go nuts on the data, probably Obsidian.md with the built-in Daily Note plugin and the Dataview plugin, which allows you to do all kinds of crazy operations on the data in your vault as if it was a database.

    If you wanna go less nuts, obsidian still has tagging, linking notes, daily notes, and all kinds of other stuff built-in and is extensible by things like the Calendar plugin from the community.

    And everything is stored as plain Markdown with the occasional hint of JSON (for some plugins) so you’re not locked into using Obsidian until the end of time. Your data is yours.

    (I realise this sounds like an ad but I’ve just been using Obsidian for years now and I enjoy it)