deutrino @[email protected]

To be clear: I reserve exactly the same amount of tooth & claw for left-wing authoritarians as I do for right-wing authoritarians.

just. pass. the checks. first.

unbelievable.

Dems Urged Not to ‘Waste a Second’ Negotiating as GOP Shrinks From COVID Relief

[T]he left fear that moderate Democrats may be tempted to compromise at the expense of progressive causes they’ve championed for years.

“The Senate’s 60-vote threshold to pass major legislation has become an excuse for inaction,” [Sen. Bernie] Sanders wrote in [an op-ed] explaining the budget reconciliation method. “We have the tools to overcome these procedural hurdles.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/dems-urged-not-to-waste-a-second-negotiating-as-republicans-back-away-from-covid-relief

#uspol

I guess I'm doing that "evaluate the state of decentralized messaging platforms" thing again.

with more research into XMPP + OMEMO, I hear of similar usability & stability problems as with Matrix/Element. I'm also aware that fragmentation is a problem with #XMPP.

does anyone have knowledge, or links to knowledge, to answer this question: assuming I and close contacts all install the least-worst clients, **what is the least-worst #Jabber server+plugins stack** in terms of reliability/usability?

I've never before in my life seen interest this high among normies in messaging & social media that's not dependent on Big Tech.

honestly kinda wish a Failbook-like UI to the Activitypub fediverse was available & mature... Diaspora is a dead end, and a lot of these people seem pretty unlikely to enjoy a Twitter-like experience.

I got so fed up with the 'which messaging platform' question last time that I successfully coaxed 95% of my contacts onto Signal.

back then I also figured out which XMPP+OMEMO clients I'd use on mobile & desktop. so now I just need to figure out which server to use they don't work shittily.

this could run on my own infra, or I could just pick a well-run & stable public server if those exist.

then: publish my deets, see if I agglomerate contacts over the next 3 years or so, and re-evaluate :P

I'm simply never going to run a chat server that takes gigs of ram just to exist before doing anything, while not guaranteeing end-to-end encryption, and I'm not sorry for saying it. The #Matrix devs can iterate for a few more releases and I'll give it a look later.