Super OwlAfter running a small-time, non-federated #XMPP server for 2.5 years (#prosody), I've decided to decommission it.
What I loved about it was the ability to make the attachment sizes large - 100MB - then it allowed a nice long-format "video memo pen-pal" experience with my friends. We would video ourselves for a few minutes, checking in with each other and expressing how we're doing. It was a spiritual exercise: how was our meditation going lately? What were we meditating on, as an object of meditation? That 100MB attachment size allowed up to 9ish minute video memos, as long as the video-recording resolution was turned down from the too-high default.
Now that #Canada is intent on rushing #BillC22 through, not caring what the #infosec experts have to say - they've pretty much made the decision for me, to use a #Deltachat server instead. This is to get a Canadian server on Canadian soil, with the ability to conveniently switch servers (add another "relay", in case one disappears). #DataSovereignty #ElbowsUp
With #XMPP, the encryption is unfortunately optional, and even downright problematic in group chats. #Deltachat succeeded in making the E2E encryption required and automatic. A step up, which today's politics all but required. #OpenSource
What I loved about it was the ability to make the attachment sizes large - 100MB - then it allowed a nice long-format "video memo pen-pal" experience with my friends. We would video ourselves for a few minutes, checking in with each other and expressing how we're doing. It was a spiritual exercise: how was our meditation going lately? What were we meditating on, as an object of meditation? That 100MB attachment size allowed up to 9ish minute video memos, as long as the video-recording resolution was turned down from the too-high default.
Now that #Canada is intent on rushing #BillC22 through, not caring what the #infosec experts have to say - they've pretty much made the decision for me, to use a #Deltachat server instead. This is to get a Canadian server on Canadian soil, with the ability to conveniently switch servers (add another "relay", in case one disappears). #DataSovereignty #ElbowsUp
With #XMPP, the encryption is unfortunately optional, and even downright problematic in group chats. #Deltachat succeeded in making the E2E encryption required and automatic. A step up, which today's politics all but required. #OpenSource
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