The clients are a bit under developed by progressing quickly, and are all open source.

Gajim can, but you have to create it yourself.

Nah, xmpp is better.

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I’m a sys admin/devops engineer, and yes, storage is far more expensive then people realize.

This is the very definition of enshittification.

To those downvoting:

Do you actually know what the definition of enshittification is? Apparently not.

Enshittification (alternately, crapification and platform decay) is a pattern in which online products and services decline in quality. Initially, vendors create high-quality offerings to attract users, then they degrade those offerings to better serve business customers, and finally degrade their services to users and business customers to maximize profits for shareholders.

It doesn’t matter that the cost of storage is a real thing. They gave things of value away for free to grow their user base and to try and capture network effects. Now that they think they have that they are taking away ( or decreasing ) the free stuff of value they gave away.

The fact that storage has value is literally an important part of enshitification.

It wouldn’t be enshitification if they gave away free stuff that wasn’t valuable.

I mean… Yes?

They don’t need to lie to sell their oppression. They just do it because they’re authoritarian.

Jmp.chat

It’s amazing how many of those started with Lennart, too.

I’ve been self-hosting a bunch of stuff for over a decade now, and have not had that issue.

Except for a matrix server with open registration for a community that others not in the community started to use.

This is incorrect. What you’d are doing while purely downloading is legal.

Bit torrent exposes you to liability not because you are downloading but because you’re sharing which courts have decided is distributing/performing, no matter how small the block you upload.

This is not an issue with Usenet.

We’ll see if your reading comprehension liabilities extend to self-hosting.

Seafile is extremely easy to set up and does one thing and one thing well.

It does store your data as binaries, so it would be a bit harder to restore than Nextcloud due to that, but I’ve never had an issue with seafile.

Of course, I didn’t have a problem with Nextcloud until an upgrade borked the installation bad enough that even restoring from backup couldn’t solve the issue.

Or, you can skip the unhinged rant, use monocles or dino, and a public server.

Also, hosting a server is much simpler than something like matrix. You can host an xmpp server on a pi and that is more than enough. Or, just use a public server.

So difficult.

I like how you included steps that absolutely aren’t required and haven’t been for like a decade to make your statement more hyperbolic.

Don’t use a centralized chat service. Use a decentralized chat service. XMPP uses the same encryption for it’s e2e encryption, is decentralized, and super light weight for both the server and the client.

ZZ

If making comments like this is required for you too feel self righteous, then you should just stop. That’s a filthy lifestyle to choose to participate in.

Or ‘ZZ’

Bit warden

HP printers are literally why we have Linux.

Well, GNU, at least.

Linux in the same way as we wouldn’t have had Obama without 7 of 9’s husband trying to take her to a swingers club.

I literally don’t understand what this is supposed to be communicating, and based on some parts of the image, have the suspicion this may be right wing and antisemitic.

I don’t trust hardware implementations of encryption in the same way I don’t trust hardware raid arrays.