Yes, but they dont have access to anything that could do that unless you give it to them. When you use Facebook directly in can do loads of fingerprinting. This cannot be done of Fediverse users unless the actual instance youre using is doing it.
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AdNauseum has a built in whitelist for ethical ads which I’m happy to leave enabled. I see them on some blogs I read and on the option search page for Home Manager.
It sounds like you could use any markdown app that supports tags and links, which includes Obsidian. A lot of Obsidian users do not use folders for organization at all, theyre just one organization option of many. You could also look at Logseq which has similar features.
The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.
To be a real discord replacement it needs to not be a stack. It also needs to use the server/channel model discord does, rather than rooms like signal or matrix.
It has weirdly good audio quality too, like noticeably better than Discord. If the Steam desktop app wasnt so heavy this could maybe be a good alternative. Maybe if they split out a separate app to use it without launching all of Steam.
I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.
I’m in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.
Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don’t join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I’ve joined.
I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don’t think it’ll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.