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Yes and no.

let's say I have a website that hosts user generated content like a forum or something. Some other person just hosts a mirror of my website that is not under my control. If some user requests me to delete his data, I can do that. i cannot delete the data from the mirror site.

Nothing else is happening in the fediverse. The only difference is, that in the fediverse the license and technology is set up to encourage mirroring content.

free software doesn't necessarily mean federating with other services.

They have stated their reasons why they don't wanna do it. You might disagree with them or not. But the technology they built is still open. Anybody could take what they created and use it as a foundation that does federate.

I‘ve had this issue on several distros and multiple friends have the same issue. Video hardware acceleration in a browser is a mess. This is definitely not only affecting me as there is a significant amount of complaints on forums and reddit.

And there is no way that the average computer user will use arch. And as long as you gotta fiddle around with your system to get even the most basic shit running smoothly like watching a high resolution youtube video and moving around windows on your other screen at the same time linux will stay irrelevant as a desktop os. It‘s still a system for nerds and I kinda feel like that this is okay.

I loved the gulli.com forum back in the day lol.

Your first point is web browsing. Even that doesn‘t work properly on a linux desktop lol. Browser performance is abysmal because the browsers lack out of the box support for hardware acceleration. Even if you get it to work it might not work reliably and an update might break it again.

Try using a discord call and open a youtube video in 4k at the same time on a a freshly installed linux desktop. The audio will be choppy and the video will drop frames like crazy. Just moving around windows on your desktop is not nearly as smooth as it is on windows.

Was ist daran ghetto? Da stehen Bäume vor der Tür, die Türen sind frisch gestrichen. Alles ist sauber. Alles sieht intakt aus. Das ist halt bestimmt keine Fabrik sondern eine ehemalige Fabrik wo irgendwelche Yuppies eine Kunsthalle reingebaut haben, wo die sich jetzt mit ihrem anstrengenden Freunden Janosch und Agnes zum Craftbeer-Trinken bei Singer-Songwriter Musik zu treffen.

Du Sohn….Sprich…

Would highly suggest you to stay away from Matrix and Element for now when it comes to using it with non techies. It‘s simply not there yet. It‘s slow, tedious to use, buggy and the ux is just bad. It‘s also not necessarily more private than the popular choices if used improperly which is imo very likely it you have your aunt use it lol.

Is there any feature of element that you need or why did you pick it? You could ideally just use Signal for group chat and group (video-) calls. Or even whatsapp.

I‘m not really a loner but I‘m also not willing to do much to be included socially if it requires me to do things that I don‘t believe in.

If your fancy night club requires me to be dressed in a certain way i have no interest of getting in. If your barbecue invitation requires me to install an app that I don‘t feel comfortable with I‘m eating potato salad at home.

No. It‘s the opposite of a new world order.

It‘s the old order doing everything to preserve its power.

High quality plastic bodies are so good. Hard to break and easy to repair. I hate glass bodies.

What do you mean by built in?

Built in to the protocol? Built in to the application?

There is a couple of XMPP clients that implement omemo and/or otr encryption.

Matrix supports encryption on a protocol level. But it‘s relatively flawed.