Here’s some music from one of my favourite bands :)

https://open.spotify.com/album/1B12ldQwBhDeS0gIcUg0ux?si=Bf9GHetQSQGup-A50OzRTQ

Link to cocktails community please! Love making them, love sipping them!

It being a completely open platform means there will definitively be data collection. Some entity will scrape the fediverse for data. It’s free, open and unprotected.

I have always used and interpreted it as “shaking my head” as well, and I will keep using it like that

Aah, yes. You’re right there. You will require a domain for it to work. Although, you could still have it work with a local DNS server for internet outages. You would still be able to chat locally in that case. But yeah, this does not seem like what OP is looking for.

I have read a bit about the Matrix protocol and once tried running the Synapse home server and Element front end which is also available as Android/iOS apps.

Matrix is a federated chat protocol in the same way that ActivityPub is a federated social networking protocol. You can host your own Matrix compatible server and chat with people on other servers.

Recently I watched a video about their recent progress in which they showed a chat working peer to peer over bluetooth low energy when devices did not have access to the internet. Writing this, I just watched another P2P demo video where they show off this functionality once again.

This means you can use your own chat server as usual when

• You have an internet connection on your device
• Your device is on the same network as your server
• Your device can find a P2P route to the other users through nearby bluetooth devices running this software allowing your device to route through other devices network and bluetooth connections

Take all of this with a grain of salt as I am not completely sure I understand how the Matrix services work. I hope this helps.

Well put!

People who are unable to control their anger. Especially if they let it go into shouting and being physical.

I get being angry. We have all felt furious for various reasons. But nothing good will come from throwing a tantrum. Behaving like an unstable manchild will only make me loose my respect for you.

I’m from feddit.nu, the swedish instance. Or at least one of them, there might be more swedish instances I am not aware of. I like it because I can find local content and post in swedish.

I think everyone should aim to find a smaller instance where they feel like they belong to and create their account there.

There’s no reason to have a federated system if everyone uses the same 3 large instances.