amzd

joined 6 months ago
[–] amzd 30 points 4 days ago (10 children)

That website was the fastest loading website I’ve ever visited.

[–] amzd 3 points 5 days ago

Yea email is a protocol

[–] amzd 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Delta Chat is a European decentralized instant messenger alternative using existing protocols.

[–] amzd 3 points 6 days ago

There is actual estrogen in milk from other mammals

[–] amzd 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.

[–] amzd 1 points 6 days ago

And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.

[–] amzd 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (4 children)

I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.

(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)

[–] amzd 1 points 6 days ago

He was literally killed for stopping animal sacrifice?

[–] amzd 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He’s not saying it’s his own blood/meat, he’s saying it’s the blood/meat that he drinks/eats instead. It’s a stance against the killing of animals.

[–] amzd 2 points 1 week ago (4 children)

He’s saying “the wine is my blood, the bread is my meat” referencing eating bread and wine as opposed to eating a lamb which was the customary last supper.

[–] amzd 1 points 2 weeks ago

You should leave a review, I am not affiliated with them

[–] amzd 2 points 3 weeks ago
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submitted 4 weeks ago by amzd to c/fediverse
 
 

[…]

Joined by XMPP-messengers Cheogram and Monocles, and supported by many contributing experts in the background, we are playfully addressing the no-billionaire-platforms challenge with webxdc, a container format and API for “chat-shared web apps”. Technically, webxdc apps are network-sandboxed HTML5 apps and instead of the HTTP protocol they use Peer-to-Peer send/receive APIs implemented by webxdc-capable messengers, rebasing relations between developers and users by saying

  • Bye Bye to surveillance capitalism: Users have both the code and the data of their web apps in their hands and benefit from end-to-end encrypted messaging not only during regular chat messaging but also during their private web app usage.

  • Bye Bye to user policing (logins, passwords, OAUTH, TOS and privacy policies etc.): Web app developers never obtain or touch any user data or user identities, and can have peace of mind of not being responsible for any data, and not having to program identity management and social discovery UIs. Messengers already provide it through arranging chat groups or rooms.

  • Bye Bye to depending on a corp or org that enshittifies: Messengers, as decentralized runners of webxdc apps in chat groups, can not hold web app developers, their users or data hostage. Consult Cory Doctorow’s “Ulysses Pact” for why this is a good idea.

This all sounds too good to be true, right? But what if another reality is possible by just stretching out our hands and grabbing it?

[…]

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