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@SamiMaatta Vaalityötä pitää tehdä myös vaalien välissä, ei vain sen aikana. Se on juuri tuollaista, että mennään kuuntelemaan ihmisiä. Tapoja on monia, voi järkätä kahvitteluja ja mitä nyt mieleen juolahtaa. Siellä samalla sitten voi jututtaa ihmisiä ja kuulla heidän murheitaan ja kertoa, mitä asian suhteen voitaisiin mahdollisesti tehdä vaikka vasemmistolaisesta näkökulmasta.

There's a lot of things that the XMPP and Matrix ecosystems provide. XMPP has probably the widest amount of implementations out there, and the best written documentation and specifications for those specs. This is great! But the end-to-end encryption story isn't good, and there's still a center to each room. But it's also been around for a long time and there are a lot of wonderful things to the XMPP ecosystem, including a variety of lovely clients and servers!

Howard Lutnick's Epstein Island Visit Puts Spotlight on His Past Crypto Ties
https://gizmodo.com/howard-lutnicks-epstein-island-visit-puts-spotlight-on-his-past-crypto-ties-2000720867?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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@wiresmith

I am using radicale:

https://neilzone.co.uk/2026/01/testing-radicale-a-self-hosted-foss-caldav-and-carddav-server/

Basically, I wanted to move away from Nexctloud entirely, so:

Sync: syncthing
DAV: radicale
Shared drive: SMB

@hipsterelectron @davidgerard @R3yScale I will pledge as much of my time as I can (note: currently that’s not as much as I’d like, as I’m behind where I’d like to be on a web forum project that’s an improved lemmy-compatible service and under the gun at work) if anyone’s able to commit to starting a project looking to implement along these lines, and would love to sit in on a libsignal consult if it’s feasible to do one in a group setting

So look, you know I wouldn't toss the Democratic Party a cinder block if they were drowning, but...

here's how I know the Epstein files aren't really a "Democrat" scandal - they released 3.5 files and all the fascists have is:

Bill Clinton, Larry Summers, Reid Hoffman and Bill Gates.

Meanwhile, we're turning up a new MAGA nazi every 7 minutes.

Don't get me wrong, the Dems did a lot to protect Bill Clinton; but the DoJ investigations were RIGGED under 3 GOP regimes - Bush, Trump 1, Trump 2.

@hellocatfood abs. no offense, we're both from diff. space-time, things are not the same even at sm hundred km away ;)

but nevertl : around here not many VJ shows anymore, can't say where there is laser ? VR space/exp. ? ha yes one gaming open in the cap.

support for arts ? (as said bef, not_much/secured)

360/sphere? same as 20 ya in the planetarium BXL

in teaching space it's hard to open the disc./tools

15y stale; platforms took a stake

supposedly tech won the game, I feel otherwise ;)

@da_667

So I will detail in this thread, and yes, this will be a Classic Christine Thread (TM), what I mean. The things we would *like* to do, at a high level:

- Get "moderated chatroom with no center" tech in the hands of users
- Which also includes direct file sharing
- Advance Spritely's core tech in the process. There's nothing like a real world use case with real users to push forward your system
- Advancing that tooling also means opening up some things that you can't do anywhere else

What does that mean? Read on! Let's go!

@corbden I recall a plate of fruit, with purple grape in the center. An apple and banana are probably in there?

Okay, here's my followup. What did I mean by "build a replacement for Discord"? That's shorthand, because to be honest, Discord is *a lot of things* because it has a lot of resources behind it. And of course, people have their own preferred directions, especially in XMPP and Matrix, and I think those efforts are worthwhile. But I'm talking about some near-future threats-and-opportunities, so let me explain what we want to, and ought to, build.

@neil I've been using this as a bit of a guide myself!

I seem to remember recently you said you wanted to move from nextcloud to something else for CalDAV and CardDAV. How did you get on? What was the drive for that?

I feel this shouldn't have to be said, but if you're running an @OpenClaw bot please don't let it spam GitHub projects with PRs and then write aggressive blog posts attacking the reputation of the maintainers who close those PRs https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

so ai is going great

https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/

@MsMadLemon Octamed! Wow, that takes me back.