Notices by JM Horner 🐝 (jmhorner@eattherich.club)

@HistoPol @smallcircles

Sweet! :-) For those who do not know, XMPP is a protocol (similar to the ActivityPub protocol being used by various fediverse services) that has many client applications. I can't think of any proprietary clients, though one or more may exist somewhere. XMPP actually spawned from Jabber (the protocol Google Talk originally used), and it is generally used for instant messaging style communications. It has the ability to include media, and can be end-to-end encrypted with [most commonly] OTR, OMEMO, or PGP.

Jitsy on the other hand is a little more complicated, and in fact includes some XMPP interoperability. It has video conferencing services similar to what you might find in Teams or Zoom. It is open source, and can support end-to-end encryption when using a Chromium based browser.

Both XMPP and Jitsy servers may or may not log IP addresses in the same way a web server like Apache or NGINX does. Though I imagine if that were added to the list for them, it would need to be added to the list for all of the others as well. Unique identifiers such as email address and phone number are simply not required for using either, and I am not aware of any XMPP or Jitsy services that have any advertising.

Thanks for making the chart and if you have any other questions, do please let me know. :-)

I would like it if my Android phone could do a simple check every ten minutes such as a DNS lookup or web page check. Then... if a particular condition is met, I'd like the phone to enable the GPS, get the phone's coordinates, and send them to me via XMPP or email. I'd also like all of this to happen without having to use someone else's servers. Is this actually possible? And is there existing software that can do it? #askfedi

Don't get me wrong... Microsoft's ability to block legitimate mail, allow spam through, AND still be a giant source of spam for decades is fucking epic. But Oracle is trying their best to compete. Lookout Microsoft, there's a new jackass in town!

I'll just leave this here.

@HistoPol @smallcircles

Would XMPP and Jitsy be blank if they were added to that chart?

@terkerjerbs I was kind of hoping you'd get a reply to this right away. I like to think I have some technical skillz, but social networking services are not my thing. The only social-like service I ever had an account on was Facebook, and that is long gone.

Having said that, in my short time here on Masto, I have kind of come to the conclusion that if I favourite a post then I am telling the person who posted it that I like it... while boosting will tell that person I like it AND will share the post with anyone who follows me.

Hopefully someone else will chime in and tell me how far off I am. :-)

@swaggboi @terkerjerbs

If I could go back in time and tell 1989 me how BBSs would eventually lead to this... I would have gone in to bioengineering so I could 12 Monkeys the whole place. 💣

@coolboymew How the hell is Toxicity over 20 years old? When did that happen? Why are these kids on my lawn? My back hurts almost as much as my feet.

@eris Uhhhm, I just got home... gimmie ten minutes to unpack the car first eh.