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F-Droid [1] has addressed this pretty well for Android devices. [1]: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/im.vector.alpha/
Until F-Droid removes the app from the store for whatever reason
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If you can't beat them, join 'em. At least until you can.
A technically-inclined person can beat them pretty easily (at least on the privacy/ethics front) by spending $5 on a Digital Ocean droplet and spinning up Nginx.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
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A technically-inclined person can beat them pretty easily (at least on the privacy/ethics front) by spending $5 on a Digital Ocean droplet and spinning up Nginx.
Or do it for free using GitHub pages + Jekyll.
Then again, so is using a VPS, just at a different layer
A big thing that annoys me about buzzwords like "decentralized" is that they're not binary. Another one that's largely lost meaning is "blockchain". Decentralized is relative and depends entirely on the context. They do tend to represent ideas like anti-censorship, individualism, and (sometimes) privacy. I think it makes more sense to discuss these topics in terms of the actual implication of what you're decentralizi…
I actually think email is almost the ideal implementation of a decentralized network. You're always going to have giants in any communication network- that's simple the reality. Email allows people to use these giants or, and critically, it allows people to join in the conversation while not using those giants. It is open. Suppose this were to happen with twitter or facebook, where the protocol was open and people using networks like mastodon could simply join in. That is a way to achieve decentralization, with the benefits that go with it. If you don't want google to read your mail, you and your correspondences can choose not to. Twitter and Facebook offer no such choice.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
I can just imagine it: "But you see, I'm only using medium.com because it's convenient. Other people shouldn't, but I'm just using it for now and will switch to something better, someday. I just don't have time at the moment." I don't think there's anything wrong with using Medium, but this is always where decentralization/security/open-protocols utopia seems to die: convenience and the UX. Where everyone seems to be…
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I can just imagine it: "But you see, I'm only using medium.com because it's convenient. Other people shouldn't, but I'm just using it for now and will switch to something better, someday. I just don't have time at the moment." I don't think there's anything wrong with using Medium, but this is always where decentralization/security/open-protocols utopia seems to die: convenience and the UX. Where everyone seems to be…
Can someone fill me in here please, how did medium become the place for these sorts of posts when self hosted wordpress, ghost, Squarespace, wix and just basic HTML were created so that you can host a text blog running on a server you control from wherever you want? How did medium take hold and why?
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.
Just because you need something, doesn't mean you need to use it. Decentralized communication is a fallback in the event that centralized communication fails, in the same way that cash is a fallback in the case that credit cards fail/are blocked. I don't carry cash, and I don't use decentralized communication methods, but I still think both are very important to have.
There’s some juicy irony in seeing “We need decentralized communication (medium.com)”. I see no mention the the elephant in the room.