Twitter is not a free platform. It actively suppresses the voices of the left and protects the far right.

I do sincerely support free speech. I think it looks a lot more like the Fediverse than Twitter.

Don’t forget that Republicans consider pretty much anything featuring gays as sexual and pornographic.

It’s success. Not huge success, but success. It maintains a mediocre status quo in the face of the possibility of it worsening.

Yeah, man. I tested with a friend. We used Pidgin, Dino, all the famous clients. I don’t know what’s up.

OMEMO didn’t allow it either, and IIRC I couldn’t do it while doing it in plaintext either.

Yes, I have. With various clients. It sucked.

2^32 different incompatible extensions for receiving images and an inability to receive messages when offline. Glorious.

It is often sketchy. The search function doesn’t work properly. Loading older messages often makes your client spaz out. There’s several glitchy commands. Spamming snowflakes can slow down your client to a crawl. A friend once crashed Element on my phone using a lot of nested quotes with muscle emojis. We had to spam other stuff so I could open Element again because the moment those messages started loading my client crashed again, preventing me from even changing the channel so I could open my app again.

I use Element and Matrix because it is the best privacy-respecting option, but it has a long way to go.

There is one huge thing of value in Matrix: e2ee.

Sadly, the normies don’t care about stuff like that, and the UX is indeed atrocious.

I have happily succeeded. While there are some communities that are still on Discord, the vast majority of my friends are accessible on Matrix.

“The app boasts influential supporters, including the former leader of the Southern Baptist Convention, Jim Henry, and controversial Christian data-harvesting firm Gloo. It puts a lot of features at the fingertips of the faithful, including the ability to filter whole neighborhoods by religion, ethnicity, “Hispanic country of origin,” “assimilation,” and whether there are children living in the household.”

Christ.

I slightly disagree. Adding addons and stuff does defeat the whole point, but Tor comes out of the box with JS enabled, and disabling JS makes life better for Tor users.

For me, it was ditching Windows.

I’m in the same boat. To be frank, if I didn’t have to use WhatsApp to talk to those in my family that remain in my motherland, I would be more than happy to get a simple dunbphone.

I was exaggerating a little, but it is still a huge swath of the Internet. And the Chinese and Russian parts of the 'net have enough of their own problems.

This is how it feels like to not be American and seeing decisions like this. They affect the whole Internet since so much stuff relies on US Internet infrastructure, yet you can only watch as the citizens of Burgerland drive the 'net into the ground.