soulfirethewolf

Personally with XMPP, I think it's right now because of the lack of decent looking clients (especially on iOS), as well as a lot of the same friction that people have suffered with mastodon.

Also, Signal is built towards a completely different audience that places privacy first over modern messaging features (things like API's, sending messages through voice assistants, etc.). And for SimpleX, I'm not really sure if sharing a QR code/link with someone else is the best route to go in UX just to message a friend

I always feel like whenever someone complains about fedi not being fully decentralized because they perceived too many instances as being held under a single place, they miss the point a little bit in terms of prioritizing infrastructure over user governance.

Aside from the potential disasters happening at them, it just really doesn't feel like a problem if most people are hosting an instance on a popular cloud platform. These are companies that are just providing infrastructure, and as long as you aren't trying to abuse their network or spread anything that they consider to be harmful, they won't really care.

Instances operated under Home and business ISPs aren't particularly immune to this either. And can still cut off an instance if they decide to.

It's not like everyone has a choice in the say. Given that many schools and workplaces rely on Google for something

Yeah, but I think that most of the clients are a bit dated in UX otherwise. There isn't really anything that I could suggest a friend to use

Ok good. But then there's the problem of actually convincing people to use Signal. A messaging app is pointless if nobody else wants to use it.

The thing is is that if MNO's truly cared about running their own RCS network (instead of leaving everything to Apple and Google). It might actually be a more open system. Sure, you can't self host an MNO, but it's still a much larger step forward.

The hype is because America won't switch to Internet messaging by default and only wants one app to message with. So SMS is the only primary option for that. Meaning lower resolution media, and a lack of modern features like read receipts and typing indicators.

It just seems like activitypub being used the way it was intended to.

Also, this seems to be owned by a UK registered charity. So I'm not sure what exactly is meant by corporate dredging.

I can't wait for home assistant assist to be good enough to replace Gemini as a assistant. Without the need for an llm

Although Talk to a Live Rep is similar to the Pixel’s “Hold for Me” feature, Google says there are some differences, noting that while some of the underlying technology is the same, Talk to a Live Rep goes one step further.

Mood

They can live their childhood as they should do, focus on their learning and enjoy the real world without having to spend their life scrolling, which we all know is not good for them

Older people forget that the norm of childhood has changed. And assume that children should do the same things they did instead of learning how to moderate what they do

The goal is to change the norm, Fernyhough said, so that when children come to the end of primary school, the class “bands together and says, ‘Let’s all delay until at least 14.’

Yeah right that's going to happen: p