@monerotalk this episode was quite a mess. Really wasted my time here trying to make up what the guest's claims really are. Doug was utterly unable to set the guest straight, and was unable to make him present some coherent train-of-thought arguments supporting his claims. The whole episode was a stream-of-consciousness style rambling coming from a seem-to-be deranged mind.
I expected better.
>as far as dendrite goes, we’re talking about using Tor & a degoogled phone without google push notifications.
I have been doing that for years now, kiddo. CalyxOS user of 2 years, here---before that I have used GrapheneOS. Both without microG or any other google play compatibility layers.
I use Element Android with Orbot proxy. It is pretty usable. I get notifications, a-Okay. Nothing to fearmonger about there.
If xmpp is really better than matrix, then you shouldn't be needing these "half-truth" videos to spread its use.
Anyways. Do what you gotta do.
@SoulReaver I am not the admin of the mitra.social network. You should ask @silverpill for that.
However, I would advise you to host your own mitra instance. It is quite easy to setup.
@rar I pay for my own domain name + VPS for ~45 USD per quarter. (I know there are cheaper providers, but I am happy with my current one).
I don't use VPN, I use Tor while browsing and use I2P while torrenting---so I don't pay a dime to obfuscate my online trails.
I use a free tier from a "privacy-conscious" email provider, so I don't pay for that either. I don't self-host my email and I don't seek die-hard email privacy with mine, currently. At most, I PGP-encrypt some of them.
I self-host my own matrix server, which is an e2ee chatting service. So, that goes into my VPS subscription.
@moneromaxi @ShadowRebel I am guessing he hires a fiverr guy to do the dubs.. He should curb the enthusiasm a little.
>Tor network relies on a relatively small number of “centralized” node operators.
Here's a recent talk that argues to the contrary: https://media.ccc.de/v/camp2023-57172-a_guided_tour_through_tor_network_health_and_performance
@Saki I like I2P. I use it for my torrenting activities, it is great---no need for VPNs for torrenting anymore.
However, Tor has its own advantages, being more reachable by a greater number of people who might not be as tech savvy as us, is one of them. Like it or not, Tor's abundant exit nodes is one other advantage that it has over I2P. In the case of something like mitra.social microblogging service, if one hosts a onion-only instance of it, Tor allows him to federate with clearnet peers over the exit nodes, and thus allow the onion-only instances of mitra/pleroma to be also in connect with the greater fediverse.
>the Tor network relies on a relatively small number of “centralized” node operators.
Any sources that makes you say that?
>some BTC maxi protocol, next thing you know they will limit the number of users to 100 and cap post size to 10KB.
lol'd
@ShadowRebel in fact, I am posting these comments from my own mitra instance. It can play-nice with the lemmy instance of monero.town, since they all share the same ActivityPub protocol underneath.
No need for a newfangled protocol that tries to re-invent the wheel.
@opal @ShadowRebel I agree. Do the tabulations. List the pros and cons, and see if you want to use matrix dendrite.