Yes, and it works very well. A friend of mine is using it on his Surface Go backing up to the local system (with high frequency for case of editing/deleting files accidentially) and to his cloud storage simultaneously (with daily frequency for case of hardware loss).

Unfortunately, it’s not available in the official F-Droid repository, but only by Collabora’s own F-Droid repository. I don’t want to trust other package managers except those of the official F-Droid repo.

I didn’t know Jitsi has those issues with default E2E.

Is a mobile phone number not required for a Google account? In many countries, including all EU ones, you need to authenticate yourself when ordering a SIM card. This makes your phone number your personal ID. Your Google account is connected to your person, and what you do on Jitsi after logging in with your Google account as well. It’s easier to track back to you that way.

which can be used without an account.

Not anymore. You need to login via a Google/Facebook/Github (Microsoft) account to create a meeting room starting from end of August 2023.

The software is free open source. But this case is not about the software. It’s about the web instance that the majority of the people was using. And that instance now lost its privacy feature and shouldn’t call itself privacy friendly anymore.

This is about the free publicly hosted instance, used by the majority of the Jitsi users, who used it because they didn’t have to login with a Google/Facebook/Github account. Which they now have to.

Jitsi remains free. As you can see, this isn’t about money but rather about privacy, which has diminished compared to before.

The issue with centralized systems becomes more apparent: the provders are held accountable for their users’ actions.

Mix addictive ingredients into food and the consumer will eat more than naturally, but it’s not better for him. Saying “more is better” and confusing “to engage” with “to like” is eval.

Does anyone know if this is threatening messengers based on federated networks like XMPP as well? Legally and practically?

Why would Javascript be a major piece of functionality for a website that is based on text articles?

You can feel better by seeing the upvoting system as a tool to raise visibility rather than a tool to show agreement with its content.

To see how your approach works, try using the Internet with Javascript turned off for reading text. You will realize you can’t organize your life nowadays without bowing to what websites do technically.

It’s not easy to become a billionaire from 28,000 USD. Definitely not based on luck alone if you grow several businesses.

This is not what most users signed up for when they signed up on Twitter.

Why does it make a difference that gun manufacturers charge for their weapens. They make them accessible for basically every adult. If they didn’t sell them to basically everyone, many shootings would not happen, as world wide statistics show. Earning income on what they provide makes them even more responsible, because they profit off from the selling. I don’t see why they are not being charged for selling it to people that use it to commit crimes, and someone providing an exit point does get charged because he lets people use it while he has no control at all over who uses his access point.

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That’s true. But it’s nice to have an account on a federated messenger and use it with a couple close contacts, as you won’t feel affected by the constant legal threat to centralized services.

There are many servers to choose from:

1. Prosody
2. ejabberd
3. Openfire
4. Tigase
5. MongooseIM
6. Metronome

They are easy to set up, and low on resources.

Time for a federation of messengers. The XMPP protocol is ready and waiting for you.