Its a rack mounted rack without the server.

There are plent of cheap chinese phones supported by lineage os tho.

The matrix protocol is a good example to prove you wrong. It has been popularized in the past 5-6 years (i.e. this era of the internet) it has well over 100 million users and growing, is being used in hundreds of universities and wont stop growing, is being used by government bodies all over the world and has unified most of the software dev landscape into one protocol. Its hard fucking work and you have to start with exactly those groups which are easier to convince and then you can move on to the average consumer. Thats how email did it and thats how matrix will do it.

Nevertheless email stays the defacto standard for business communication and has stayed intercompatible with a wide range of clients, servers and plugins. So this graph could be better but is apparently not a big issue as long as companies and unis keep running their own servers, forcing big tech to stay with the standards.

Things never change, companies never break promises, shareholders never hold power over decision, people can not be bought

Those would all have to be true in order for anyone to have a reason to put trust into Bluesky.

Meta auto created threads accounts for all instagram users iirc so they kinda forced thwir way into the market by pre inflating their numbers.

Have you tried 535 yet? I would do that before trying to experiment with other installation pathways.

It will ofcourse still be very filtered in regards to legal grey areas like piracy and porn i assume. But even then for everything else we really need a functioning search engine.

Thats an advantage so thin it is almost invisible. Its a centralized platform, it could be bought by Elon or shutdown for whatever reason at any second. Being this shortsighted about the future of global communications systems is not a great idea when Trump is about to take office.

Perhaps. Overall Bluesky is massive already tho. Twitter has something like 220 million users with Bluesky being around 14 million. Having 6% of the user count of Twitter is already beyond critical mass for the average user. People will be able to satisfy their microblogging itch on bluesky which means they wont go back. It has all the drama, porn and politics that twitter had.

No, and it doesnt federate even though they promised that a long time ago. Unless they do, they will inevitably also go to shit, there is no way around the enshittification pipeline. Just stick to mastodon and invest in a long term future.

For a slightly more detailed explanation: https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/ulysses-pact/#tie-yourself-to-a-federated-mast

This is additional new users not total users. Growing by 0.67% of the user count of the largest microblogging platform in the world in a week is absolutely massive.

Yeah im aware that they split up into two somewhat separate companies, but the big names are involved in both at the same time. Element is always mentioned in matrix.org posts too, so its very clear that its developed alongside each other. They are doing good work tho, so i dont want to complain too much.

My main complaint is just about the way they communicate things. Matrix 2.0 is not an actual thing. Its just another release in a long chain of incremental releases. ElementX is in bare bones alpha stage but they pretend its not.

I just dont like this weird self congratulation. It invalidates the very real progress of the ecosystem that doesnt need big numbers and drastical changes. It looks like investor theater to me, to make the matrix ecosystem look fashionable.

Thats a good point tbh. Nice brain hack

Yeah for anything except some games, wine/lutris or a virtual machine will work wonders. Not having to reboot is much nicer. You can also consider booting windows off a fast usb stick or usb ssd.

Sadly the new ElementX client is completely unusable missing 80% of the necessary features. The only real progress here (that would call for a 2.0 celebration) is the actually very nice new call system. That only works on element-desktop and elementx however. So no calls are possible with mobile users unless they use the very much not ready for use elementx.

I know this is about the protocol and not the clients, but in the end what matters to users are visible improvements to the UX.

From what i can see they dont seem to have any intentions of improving feature richness of elementx significantly but they are planning on discontinuing the non x version. Im a little confused with their messaging recently.

The protocol supports lots of cool features but if the mobile client will only support a small fraction of those, then whats the point?

Yeah i was gonna ask “are you not using fdroid?” but yeah, just apple things i guess.

+1 on organic maps

Gets regular updates and improvements. They recently added (slightly experimental) track recording.

You can easily import bookmarks and tracks.

You can also edit osm data if you have an account and see something outdated like opening hours.

Supports TTS instructions for handsfree navigation if your phone has TTS installed.

Its an aosp feature i believe, but its disabled on many phones. Graphene and calyx have it. With calyx its default off, but you can set it between 1 and 72 hours. Very handy feature.

Yeye i wrote a reply correcting myself with an excerpt of wikipedia. Thanks for pointing that out.