What this basically is is signees asking Google to fix the problem that Google itself caused. I hope for other people’s sake that this goes through, but since we’re talking about Google, I am all but convinced that Google will pull something like this again in the future.

I can’t get over just how wonderful it is to have AI in our lives.

Bad news, I’m afraid. Tried opening a few restricted videos with PipePipe, FreeTube, tried downloading with yt-dlp, nothing works. YouTube is being locked down.

Man, just good decisions all around on Discord’s part.

Clickable link for anyone curious:

stoat.chat

I mean, you’re not wrong, but have you seen what those alternatives were?

Thanks for explaining. But unless I’m missing something, Conduit doesn’t seem to be quite dead just yet. I got upgrade notifications throughout 2025, the latest two being in December; one for v0.10.10 and the other for v0.10.11.

Wait a sec, I run Conduit on my test machine and seems fine so far. What drama did I miss?

Why not Synapse?

These fines are so toothless, it’s pathetic.

I see. Thanks for elaborating.

That’s not ideal. I hope they implemented images in the protocol itself, because having just text is kinda bland.

I can’t believe it’s not sarcasm

Clients display text, like an eBook, or images / media.

Is this new? Last I checked on Gemini, it could only to text, unless you count ASCII art as images.

My bad, I wasn’t clear enough. I actually meant Proton Bridge has no mobile version, meaning you can only use the official app you mentioned, but not any third party apps like K-9 Mail/Thunderbird or FairEmail.

I’ve been on Posteo for years now, they’ve been rock solid. As for Tuta.io, the issue specifically is no IMAP support, which is what third party email clients need to function.

I thought I’d also mention Protonmail, which might look good, but is in a similar boat. They technically do provide IMAP support, but not in a way that matters. If you wanted to connect Protonmail to Thunderbird or, if you’re an insane person, Microsoft Outlook, you’d need another app running on your PC along with your email app called Proton Bridge, which just sounds like a hassle. No mobile version either.

I’d say stick with Posteo. Alternatively, if you want to use your own domain name, I’ve heard good things about mailbox.org.

Just add it to the “Google doesn’t give a shit” pile. For example, they don’t allow “mass-produced” or “inauthentic” content on the platform and to be fair, they do seem to be cracking down on some, but there’s still a sea of monetized AI slop they have to wade through before we can call this particular policy enforced.

I did say Xthings is the second laziest name I ever heard.

Xthings is the second laziest, most unimaginitive name for a company I have ever heard.

Ugh, so tired of this old argument. Nothing to hide doesn’t mean everything to show. There, now let’s get on with our lives.