Maybe she's just american and being impolite

The onion:

Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas

https://theonion.com/dying-gazans-criticized-for-not-using-last-words-to-con-1850925657/

Since we cannot verify the software they run on the server is the software that is open source then we must assume it is not.

But that's like, the case for pretty much every messenger out there, outside of self-hosting, which will not be done by 99.99% of the general population.

This comparison makes some questionnable choices. It puts the presence of a web client as green, when actually this breaks the thread model of end-to-end encryption.

they don’t want to do anything about federation or messenger intercompatibility.

Their reasoning is that they only trust themself to keep the meta data safe and so need you.

That's not their reasoning. Their reasoning is that it's much harder to evolve the protocol in a decentralized context than a centralized one. It's not that they only trust themselves with your metadata, it's that they can improve the protocol much faster in order to get rid of most metadata.

They have been able to deploy a ton of protocol updates with regards to minimizing the amount of metadata anyone has access to (including them), while other decentralized alternatives have essentially been stuck in limbo for a while:

• Secure Value recovery
• Groups V2
• Sealed sender
• Usernames
• Post quantum resistance

On the other hand, Matrix, XMPP and email are very leaky with regards to metadata. I'm not going into email because that's pretty documented, but here it is for matrix:

• Message reactions are not encrypted
• Group membership are not encrypted (which lead to attacks)
• Profile pic and Name are public (visible by everyone even people with whom you don't have any contact)

I need to buy this.

United Bullies of America.

Because they "reward" people with crypto for watching ads so a lot of cryptobro assholes have financial interest in the browser getting more popular.

Also the CEO is homophobic and right-wing so it speaks to a lot of loud assholes.

It's being projected as part of a protest by https://bsky.app/profile/politicalbeauty.bsky.social and https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:37x2qvt3z5iwuyzusvnvlepi

It's a joint project between many organisations, primarly KDE and Gnome. In practice right now it's legally hosted by Gnome and they're trying to make flathub into its own organisation.

The European space agency exists

YAML 1.2 is a superset of JSON. Every valid JSON is valid YAML 1.2