addendum (to ensure someone gets hopping mad):

Downvoted for having fun and playing im showing my wife this

Play a little Netanyahu for em Merz

Or you guys can be miserable and circlejerk with other westerners, the only thing you know how to do. Until you die. Disabled and forgotten in a society that hates you. I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy, but I would wish it on random annoying folks

Not at all. They made it specifically for diasporoids. There are a lot of people from all over the world on there. My 2 main intl. oomphs are in Brazil and Iraq. There are people who post videos from trips in the DPRK where they have picnics and sing-alongs. Do not deny yourself

I like it, I know exactly what kind of person seeks this out lol. You should hop on Rednote. Just give it a try. Not as an alternative, just a whole new thing

You really want to give your email provider your phone number. “Privacy” for instances that assemble botnets and block VPNs doesn’t even include avoiding metadata collection. You guys are simply very salty and lazy that the best-advertised options are all connected to NATO intelligence agencies. Which really should be obvious to any person that hasn’t thrown their intuition in the garbage due to its interference with their entertainment. You really bought the Swiss Nazi neutrality ploy, closing in on a century past its expiration date. Is this not bleak?

Never cared for the way this fellow tries to argue that everything is too difficult to be useful. I’ve gotten plenty of friends and family on XMPP and the clients that don’t have encryption on by default are easy to remember. Really blowing it out of proportion.

Honestly, what do security researchers like this even know about normal people? They sit through all kinds of inconveniences to use Facebook. This is a thought experiment.

Some of these are valid criticisms, of course, a lot of XMPP stuff feels like it from the 2010s. It’s still the only real option. Matrix client or server is bloated garbage, theu moved server fixes into a walled garden, its development is dependent on funding from the USA National Endowment for Democracy technology fund. Signal has similar funding issues and is very shady with its centralization, trust issues, demanding phone numbers. Sets users up to leak all kinds of stuff in notifications like Matrix.

The strange insistence that only Signal meets their requirements makes me skeptical, as does the way they have operated in Github threads. They seem like an emotional nightmare to work with.