@dgar

I appear to be incapable of any banger-grade toots. I'm tempted to blame it on the #autism. Have any of my fellow Autistics had any banger toots to speak of? Like are we all generally bad at it, I'm wondering? Is there some sort of measurable banger toot drought we are all doomed to suffer, as our lowly lot in the #fediverse? Maybe one of us is a scientist and can measure this, just saying. @autistics

@delta I agree, #Deltachat is awesome for superfast account creation, then sharing the account by QR code. No password set or stored, no phone number or email given, no password manager grumbled about necessitating

@pathfinder @autistics I've talked to an acquaintance who is a schoolteacher in #HongKong . Their education system is so far advanced that they *already know* who all the autistic kids are in the classrooms by the time they're 6 years old. This friend knows who each autistic kid is already, complete with the training on how to keep an eye out for their special needs. #HongKong has blown the doors off Western education in countries like #Canada, when it comes to #Autism awareness.
@autistics

@nina_kali_nina I've been using #XMPP for the last year or so, wondering if the halcyon ICQ days of yore are still to be had.

After testing it with several friends connecting to my own self-hosted #Prosody server, here's what I found:

- Yes it all works, on all XMPP clients. But MacOS/iPadOS/iOS clients are not all that mature at this time. The #Linux (#Gajim, despite no video or audio calls) and #Android (#Conversations) XMPP clients are the best, IMHO. Always favor those, I say, and they are confidently installable and reliable today.
- Yes, use OMEMO encryption on personal chats. But when it comes to group chats, OMEMO is not necessarily the right move.
- If you don't need privacy in an XMPP group, then don't create a private group, but rather a _public_ group (the safer choice for reliability of message delivery). No OMEMO is possible in a public group, and the messages propagating around will be reliable, even to clients who vanish and re-appear after prolonged absences.
- If you really need OMEMO encryption in a group chat, create a _private_ group, not a public group. **Clients who vanish from the group for prolonged periods may miss out on some of the messages when they return (say, a few weeks later)**.
- I kept a wiki with several more quirks noted, which came up, and felt confusing and frustrating to my (non-geek) friends using XMPP.

As to your Apple-ecosystem-confined friends, at this moment in time, maybe talk to them 1:1 in #Fluffychat/Matrix, which affords encryption, and is all #OpenSource, like everything above. (Groups in #Matrix have a track record of failing for everybody in them very badly every 2 or 3 years or so.)

@stevefenton The vibe coding can just code that right into the app: a bespoke and integrated version control. Why learn an existing system like git? The point of vibe coding is to avoid learning anything unnecessary. :blob_cat_giggle: