@5225225 sorry, I can't hear you. maybe we should both just delete all our keys and generate new ones? just click through whatever warning it shows you, this happens all the time

@Owlor I imagine there’s a recurring issue with them going native

@ratsnakegames no but this is mastodon so no-one’s sure what other social activities exist

When I said that your discord clone doesn’t need e2ee, I got a lot of comments along the lines of “ then how would I use it to organize the revolution!” The answer is: you don’t. If you have more users than can comfortably share a Signal chat and hence want to use discord or something like it, you cannot POSSIBLY be vetting all of them to a high standard of trust. Your logs ARE leaking. End-to-end encryption between more people than can fit around a dinner table is pointless.

This article confirms what I already assumed, that “open source [information sense, not code sense] intelligence gathering on social media” includes, for the US government, asking for links to join groups that may *feel* private. My own discord has literally like a thousand idlers. It would be very *lucky* if none of them were logging for potentially nefarious purposes! And I remind the active users of this occasionally.

https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-ice-masks-up-in-more-ways

note that I didn’t even touch on audio/video calls and screen sharing, which are HEAVILY used features of discord, but we can start with “a solid chatroom experience” as the minimum viable replacement; if you can’t get that part right, discussing the rest with a straight face is clownshoes

So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

Things you don’t need:
- federation/distributed systems
- multiparty end-to-end encryption
- an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

Things you DO need:
- a user interface that is Normal
- the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
- higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
- any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

@greem ah, thank you, I didn’t see a sign explaining what it meant.

Don’t worry, Odin got his tram ride — and got to enjoy some public art while daddy returned the sleep test equipment to the hospital #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #tram #publictransport

@Erpel trams are full of teenage goth girls who want to pet him!

Odin is whining and howling because mommy let a perfectly good tram come and go without getting on board. I might care about the destination slightly more than he does #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #tram #publictransport

absolutely losing it at machine translation rendering "A Farewell to Arms" as "Goodbye Weapons"

#aliexpress #aliexpressfinds

@Linux_in_a_Bit half the replies to this post

@alineonline he doesn't know you either but he loves you too

@me it's not so much that Odin gets wet, as that mud particles cling to the majestic fuzz on his paws and legs extremely well (until contact with a white blanket, of course)

Odin has been spending more time curled up on my bed, which on the one paw is very cute, but on the other it’s the time of year when Amsterdam is 110% mud and wet wipes at the door can only do so much #dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon