Andy is hardly “MAGA folk”. Just ignorant of US politics.

LOL you say that like any billionaires are “self made”. He was a billionaire who was closely connected to to elite people around the world. That’s the only reason this is such a scandal.

Ummm, you realize that all of this came about because a rich guy went to jail, right?

Unenforced laws are just fiction.

Erm. Nope. They’re still laws.

I can say anything I want is illegal.

Sure but…that won’t make it illegal.

Prove what, exactly? If you can cite a specific crime, I can point you to the part of the law that proves that it’s illegal, but that’s clearly not your gripe. Things that are illegal are illegal, regardless of whether they’re enforced or not. The proof is in the law that says that it’s illegal.

All of these have significant tradeoffs.

You’re commenting in a thread about tradeoffs in Matrix so I’m not sure what your point is. Mine was that those particular tradeoffs don’t exist in other messengers.

So much so that i would not recommend them to normies

LOL what? Why not?

Yes. It is.

Have you not heard of “Do Not Disturb” mode? Or airplane mode?

This is just blatant intimidation. Same reason they arrested Don Lemon, knowing full well there’s no legal justification.

I mean unencrypted platforms aren’t perfect either but the vast majority of the time it’s perfectly fine or very good. Maybe you have a connectivity issue.

Do you not have these problems with Matrix as well?

You can use all the proxies you want, it won’t matter if the servers are shut down.

If you’re in a country that is shutting down servers, then your contingency plan should involve serverless p2p apps like Quiet or Keet.

I mean Signal is not my favorite but it’s consistently easy to use and problem-free.

Yes, XMPP, SimpleX, Keet, Briar, Meshtastic, etc.

E2EE does not demand tradeoffs. None of my other E2EE apps have tradeoffs. Only Matrix has problems.

But…you want to be carrying a music device? What’s the difference?

none of the instances I listed above would want to become a “default” instance except Piefed.zip

Then .zip it is. For now. This is obviously a growing platform, but we should have a plan to decentralize for the future.

Ah yeah, gatekeeping, that’s what we need more of.

Isn’t Lemmy.ml the default in Jerboa?

Okay, 1 app. Where is OP from Reddit looking? There’s no “Lemmy app”. Or “PieFed app”. That’s what matters.

I’m quite sure they prefer to avoid waves of new joiners

Then they can choose not to opt in.

Lemmy.ml isn’t the largest Lemmy instance

It’s also not a default instance in any apps that I’m aware of.

Piefed.ca is Canadian focused. Blahaj is queer focused.

As it says in OP, none of that matters.