Notices by Gold gab ich für Eisen (nanoelquant@c.im)

@ottercynical "Communists make whiny posts on the Internet and get arrested for being publicly communist" Very good, that the world made them degrade to this stage. In XX century, communists exterminated whole nations and social groups. In Ukraine, where I was born, commie authorities exterminated millions of people in three famines, at least one of which was premeditatedly organized to obliterate the civil unrest against their "great" plans, and at least two nations (Crimean Tatars and [soviet] Germans) were forcibly resettled from their homes to unpopulated areas of modern russia with severe climate, barely suitable for living. I believe that any Ukrainian has somebody among relatives who was a victim of what these folks have done. So nice try, but no.

@Radical_EgoCom happens, however more often it is about their youth rather than the regime. And definitely no sane person misses famines, Gulag, massive repressions, iron curtain, empty shelves, propiska and other "beautiful" stuff.

@Radical_EgoCom and what this communist propaganda does here? Dude, I was born in a country where they tried to implement this. The results were devastating. So when I say that #communismkills, I know what I am talking about.

Nothing new. #Communism kills, devastates and humiliates. When the #crimes of commies are made public, #communists try to silence the truth.

"The #Embassy of #Ukraine in the #Hellenic #Republic expresses its strong protest regarding the violent provocative actions committed by members of the #Communist Party of #Greece during an event organized by the #Ukrainian community in the municipality of Mandra-Eidyllia to honor the memory of the victims of the #Holodomor.
The Embassy condemns in the strongest terms the disgraceful disruption of this solemn commemoration, which is of deep historical and emotional significance to the Ukrainian people."

https://www.facebook.com/UKRinGRC/posts/ellen%CE%B7-%CF%80%CF%81%CE%B5%CF%83%CE%B2%CE%B5%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%BF%CF%85%CE%BA%CF%81%CE%B1%CE%BD%CE%AF%CE%B1%CF%82-%CF%83%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%B5%CE%BB%CE%BB%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B1-%CE%B5%CE%BA%CF%86%CF%81%CE%AC%CE%B6%CE%B5%CE%B9-%CF%84%CE%B7%CE%BD-%CE%AD%CE%BD%CF%84%CE%BF%CE%BD%CE%B7-%CE%B4%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%81%CF%84%CF%85%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1-%CF%84%CE%B7%CF%82-%CE%B3%CE%B9/878097191170441 from https://news.liga.net/ua/politics/news/v-hretsii-napaly-na-ukraintsiv-iaki-vshanovuvaly-zhertv-holodomoru-postrazhdav-dyplomat-video

@tinydoctor despite I support anti-surveillance actions, I am afraid I can't support this idea. According to the info about this program, it is so surveillance-heavy that shall plainly be avoided by all means. Developed in Belarus 🚩, obscure history regarding alleged sharing data with Facebook 🚩, "generous" ability to use "anonymous mode" after 2022 (why the hell this all was compulsory non-anonymous before?? ) 🚩 - like, what? If whoever keeps using it after all that, I wonder if a bunch of geek men trying to spoof their own data could make any difference other than slight increase of user base.

Actually, I think that the best we can do to promote #xmpp is to use it more.

My JID is in profile description, feel free to join.

@JessTheUnstill @ARCANON @nixCraft well, hope you will succeed.

@JessTheUnstill @ARCANON @nixCraft do you mean like never going offline?

@aral I wonder how people seriously discuss character limits in 2023.

@feditips would it be any possible one day to just communicate here without being constantly pontificated about how we should do this?

@frankie Sorry, but this is just not true. Setting up #xmpp ecosystem is quite elaborated task, especially when you mean #jingle calls (I wonder if whoever ever managed to get them working).

@debacle @frankie I don't even mention setting up own server. When we are talking about communication software, it should be easily accessible, without requirements of solemn wows, degree in computer sciences or even long troubleshooting, otherwise the audience will be marginal, if any.

1. One need to get a client. On mobile it would be most probably #Conversations or some its forks of different degree of weirdness. Conversations requires either to pay them immediately or use #Fdroid. It is not bad to pay or donate them (though I am not happy about giving google my card) but it raises the entrance limit immediately. On desktop, one would have to mess up with a bunch of clients, from which only #Gajim and #Dino seem to be more or less modern (and quite probably one will need to install cutting-edge version from flatpak or whatever).
2. Well, then server. Well, there are reasonable, advice or research is necessary.
3. Troubleshooting and fine mistakes. E.g. #Conversations fails to ask microphone permission when somebody calls in, it just throws error. Yes, it is minor issue, but how many people will say "it doesn't work, it is buggy, why should I?" (recall, on that point the potential new user has already made a lot of research and possibly even paid some money). Again, #Conversations follow some weird barely understandable for me ritual on adding new contacts, I couldn't just add a contact and write to it.

Just to conclude, #xmpp is not a smooth experience for any non-geek.