I think men and women cannot be friends in most cases, not even because of the complications of attraction and stuff, but also because men and women simply don't share the same reality whatsoever.
@moth_ball The gutter oil thing is kinda a myth. Maybe it happened ages ago in smaller towns or villages? But, my theory is that foreigners see people scooping out/clearing out sewage lines (this isn't a rare sight, necessarily, e.g., some guy with a few buckets pulling/scooping slurry out of a manhole cover) and the narrative or story got appended to this that these people are "collecting gutter oil for cooking" or whatever. @kaia@p
@p Most of Europe is far less free than states branded "undemocratic" or "authoritarian", like the PRC. I don't know why "freedom loving" countries like the US are aligned with Europeans considering this fact, outside of realpolitik (kinda like how the US is also aligned with Israel, Saudi Arabia, etc.). @kaia@moth_ball
@pwm > DC has no latency if your mail host is their chatmail distribution and not a regular IMAP/SMTP server
That may be so, but then that sort of defeats one of the biggest benefits of Delta Chat, namely, that if you already have email then you already have Delta Chat, and one only need login to one's email address to begin using it. So, now, it's under the caveat that, "well, actually, best practices is you should have a dedicated Delta Chat account that doesn't conflict with your actual email and for real performance you should spin up this special, dedicated email server that's tuned for Delta Chat". In that case, why not just use XMPP? Which is objectively better, with more features, and a more "complete" product? XMPP has been suggested as a viable and superior replacement protocol for email vs. SMTP, even! @sophie@49016@ar@icedquinn
@koimoa They did abandon Dendrite. Which is hugely unfortunate because Synapse is so trash and so many issues performance-wise could have been solved if they'd gone "all in" on Dendrite. @icedquinn@ar@sophie@sendpaws@49016
@teto This is only funny because Chinese use a lot of idioms and metaphors and I could absolutely imagine Xi saying something like OP's post about endurance.
I wrote a little XMPP guide for my server because I felt like the preexisting ones were lacking and I want to (try) making things as clear as mud for friends who I'd like to convert off of services like Discord or Telegram: https://intkos.link/pages/xmpp_getting_started_sidech_nl/
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