AFAIK because the powerful agroindustry lobby in France is against Mercosur, but not against this one.

ATProto isn’t federated or decentralized in any meaningful way.

There are multiple good XMPP mobile apps for Android: https://joinjabber.org/docs/apps/

The story on iOS is somewhat less good right now, but Monal is ok and Movim works quite well as a PWA in Safari.

Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…

XMPP is generally nicer to host due to lower resource requirements and better server management in general. The mobile apps are also more snappy and need much less battery, plus notifications are more reliable.

Matrix has somewhat more public rooms of FOSS projects you can join, but typically these projects are also available on IRC, which you can join via the excellent Biboumi gateway for XMPP.

That can be also done with a Slidge gateway for Discord on XMPP.

Yes, like I said, there is a need to do SoC vendor specific implementations.

There is some VoLTE support in UT. The problem is that “VoLTE” isn’t actually a standard and needs to be implemented differently for every vendor SoC, so that makes it very difficult to support.

Found the campist.

Hmm, I am most surprised by Austria. Especially since afaik wages in Austria tend to be a bit lower than in Germany for example.

If your definition of “good” means like a douchebag, sure.

As others have said already, email is one of the few things I would avoid self-hosting.

You could check with your domain / DNS host if they also offer email. OVH for example gives a free 5GB email for every domain. Otherwise there are of course email providers that let you use your own domain.

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MultiBanco / MBway works great in Portugal 🇵🇹

Huh? I was not aware they stopped selling the FP5 on their main shop. But it is still easily available with other online retailers. The FP6 is sadly a bit of a down-grade as it lacks some important features like display out and USB3.

The FP5 can run Ubuntu Touch and PostmarketOS quite well, yes.

My impression is that this NexPhone just uses Android16’s built in virtualization features to run Linux and Windows. The FP5 will also be able to do that once the Android16 update becomes available for it in the near future.

Not sure why one would want to get this over a Fairphone 5 though. Same SoC, similar functionality, similar price.

You are funny. That article links directly to what media typically refers to, i.e. “mass media”.

Ask any typical person around you what they understand if you talk about “the media”, and they will confirm that this indeed refers to what I am talking about.

The “social” qualifier is a direct reference to how normal media is a one way street and how publishing is only open to a selected few and that is what sets “social media” apart from it.

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

You didn’t understand my comment it seems.

You can’t just stop trading in US dollars, at best you can very slowly look for other suppliers for vital commodities that you currently have to buy in US dollars. That is a decade long process and will not do anything to deter the US from doing what it wants right now.

Selling off bonds on the other hand has a direct effect on the finances of the US government which is constantly issuing new bonds to finance its deficit. This effect is somewhat limited by the fact that they can also do quantitative easing (“printing money”), but that usually has a direct effect on the value of the dollar and is much more likely to make others to reconsider their trade in US Dollars than a few European states slowly diversifying their supply chain over the course of a decade or so.