Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 40

And to prove my point he disabled my account after that remark :laughingimps:

Here’s your daily reminder that I’m fundamentally a moderate when circumstance allows me to be, but apparently policies like “don’t genocide me” and “don’t molest any kids” are far right extremism now so here we are.

You don’t need to be a homosexual or black to be a faggot nigger. Until next time. :anintellectual:

My citation that he’s a faggot nigger:

FOSS spergs won’t take this seriously because they think the debate ends literally the instant you bring up that their alternative is FOSS or that it has E2EE.

@LukeAlmighty df -h

“I bet you feel stupid now for not just knowing that off the top of your head huh? :anintellectual:”

No but seriously I sincerely expect Linux spergs to really want you to “just know” these commands even though that isn’t how this works at all

The Brutal Doom Discord has fallen. Looks like the trannies control it. It used to be the other way around.

Bridges are extremely compelling in the use case I’m offering because that use case involves public rooms. I don’t post sensitive information on these channels because they’re public. Public is public. The best E2EE won’t matter one whit for a channel that anybody with an Internet connection can just walk into. In the case of public rooms, UI/UX is king and anti-jannying measures are a close second.

It’s when you’re doing private correspondence of a confidential nature, that’s when things like privacy/security come to the fore, and become really pertinent. But if I’m not sending bank account numbers or plans to blow up the US government, I just don’t care that much if someone surreptitiously reads my logs and finds out I had a three hour argument about if CofD 2e Werewolves an use Primal Rage to ambush Mages. I’ll take being guilty of TTRPG Asperger’s on the nose, and the Feds and my employer can read all about it if they really feel like it.

This idea that we’re supposed to “educate people about reality” and that if they aren’t singularly concerned with privacy/security they are a “drooling retard” is extremely condescending and plays into how these services will never break the network effect.

One actual use of Matrix that’s quite compelling is as a hub for bridging other more capable services. I have a Matrix<–>Telegram and Discord<–>Matrix bridge so that if you post a message in one you ultimately end up posting it in all three. I’m more than willing to add other commercial services to this.

This addresses the UI/UX issue quite elegantly. Since normies get real persnickety about which features they insist on with the UI/UX, just let them pick the one they want and have the bridge translate between them as best it can. Matrix’s flexibility when it comes to “events” (which we as end users view as messages) makes it so that you can do a full translation of basically any of these services into a Matrix event, and then from there the parts that are translatable can translate across all the other commercial services.

And if they janny my Discord server or my Telegram channel or whatever else? Just make another one.

It’s like bringing the federation to the normies. It’s compelling.

Yeah they’re pretty straightforward. There’s one that is supposed to do all of the services, called matterbridge, but that one is lackluster imo because it dumbs the metadata of the messages down too much. For example, it will reduce a Matrix message to something like <matty> Message here but it will post that as the message body, whereas the two bridges I’m about to link will preserve Matrix metadata like display name and avatar (screenshot related)

My Telegram avatar will display correctly on both the Matrix channel and the Discord server. That’s massive. It’s subtle but it’s massive. People, myself included, respond to that.

Here are the two bridges I run:

• https://github.com/matrix-org/matrix-appservice-discord
• https://github.com/mautrix/telegram

I understand exactly why people like XMPP/Matrix, but there’s basically no consideration given to the fact that this isn’t a dealbreaker to anybody who isn’t a tech sperg or a criminal. These services are about security first and UI/UX is, frankly, an afterthought at best.

You’ll notice that most people get wrapped up in the latter and kind of disregard security/privacy concerns. They care more about if swiping right/left on the picture brings you to the next one than they do if the Feds can monitor your correspondence. You can call this foolhardy on the part of normies but if you ever want to overcome the network effect this reality needs to be taken seriously.

Security/privacy are key for tech spergs and political dissidents, sometimes criminals. Nobody else. I’m not asking you to give me your personal subjective opinion about these services, but instead to have a theory of mind and to comprehend that the wacky custom emojis are actually more important to people than if you’re secure from spying. And that this perception counts. It’s real. This actually matters even if you think it shouldn’t.

Telegram has some cool shit that Matrix lacks as well, by the way.