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Sending a tinsy-winsy appreciation to how you handle this dialog. Smooth. 🎩

Disabled presence can be an advantage to some privacy-conscious users, so a case for matrix.org can be made for them - especially if they don’t chat much anyway.

Otherwise depend on what is called a “non-puppeting bridge”, self-hosted bot that reposts messages on behalf of itself. Problem is, reactions and other multi-agent interactions won’t be a subject for bridging. If you absolutely need those, you have to host a Matrix server (like optimized, but unstable, Conduit or the hungry Synapse) or partner up with another server owner to activate your appservice…

A lot. Of. Downtimes…

If you want to make a set of private rooms that you want to be available at all times, I certainly don’t recommend matrix.org.

Wherever the app’s code is on. I usually go around finding the link in the store page or through the search engine. Most of the time, they end up on GitHub and GitLab, sometimes on Codeberg or other instance.

Paranoid section ahead: Don’t blindly trust the issues list, closed or open, because there are still ways to permanently delete those, hence giving bad actor a way to hide evidence of the on-going security problem.

I look at the latest release date. At leisure time, I would also go and check repository and issue tracker to see whether something serious is being ignored. If it’s crucial for business, I would spare time investigating the source code itself.

I would not necessarily say that many apps uploaded to F-Droid and other repositories are unsafe, because I don’t have all that energy to audit anything I use. What helps me to stay on the safe side is reading into things - enclosed descriptions and names may look like a small factor to some, once they tread the sources, but it saves me both the time and trouble. Sloppily written stuff usually implies a sloppy code, a lax attention to details on the developer’s side.

Wait, so, it’s supposed to be time-limited?

Wow, that’s quite useful.

TILvids is like your average overprotective uncle…

I observed the same segmentized silos problem a little while ago. Initial reach is SOOOO much harder when federation doesn’t work.

Reach is there only when some popular tech vblogger appears, like The Linux Experiment on TILvids - and that’s it. Most people are there for that channel and that channel only (Nick’s done a good job at promoting it, as we see), which must mean the impression other parts leave on a viewer is considerably worse.

Mastodon, an alternative social network to Twitter

Not reading what’s next. Probably, some bull.

Yeah, well, it will be unsolved again and again, because that’s the nature of servers - they experience downtime. I’m just looking ahead of myself and how badly this tag will age for some, haha.

It’s never “[Solved]”, LOL.

I definitely remember seeing someone on YouTube sewing after using some built-in Inkscape extension to optimize route and color switches. It was pretty surprising to find such tutorials.

In my case, xdg-desktop-portal-gnome is required by xdg-desktop-portal, which in turn is required by flatpak. I wonder what effect will removing have on apps?

I don’t if, but soooo much crashes surely should trigger some response in people, especially when they go out of their way to work on some “real time” codebase, tasks requiring even a pinch of synchronization.

If you have strategically real time collaboration, I would advise against pushing to GitHub and find a way to self-host or use another instance.

Sometimes, I can’t help but to put GitHub to the side when we speak open source. Not saying that it’s a wrong place to ask, it’s just that with GitHub, as with many centralized platforms with many users to catch up to, outages are not all that nuanced. We’ve been through much of them: GitHub, GitLab, almost the same difference.

It is rare that everything app like this has a source code available to public. I’m immediately hooked, as someone who can’t wrap his head around making custom views in Obsidian and its open source alternatives. (For the love of Pete, frontmatters are just too demanding on syntax department!) Fork, stat! 😃

License doesn’t seem to step on your toes as long as you don’t distribute Anytype in exchange for something (w/ or w/o modifications).

I don’t use neither of them. What I liked specifically about Matrix is the detailed events system: I’m just not sure that kids might find it useful. 🤭

Sure. Federate with another trusted server, but probably not the general one - you might want to avoid that.