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One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.

My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹ ², #Telegram, #Discord ³ , #WhatsApp 5, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:

WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??

This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)

And no, bridges don't count!
I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !

So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!

Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!
Can we please get that back? Cuz #WastefulComputing pisses me off!

#api0 #Enshittification

@the_realm @gajim @pidgin

Please read the original post again:

And no, bridges don't count!

Plus #Matrix is a half-baked shitshow in terms of support and self-hosting with the #Enshittification via #AssholeLicensing killing it.

It just makes me wounder: Are modern messengers these days complicated or do the people who have the talent to write such a #MultiProtocolIM chosen that this is stupid and that like myself they'd never touch that shite in their life and make peace with it?

And I'm not talking about specific #API limitations like #Discord uses to force people to use their garbage client, but like #WhatsAppWeb and others...

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Hating doesn't get you far. 

doesn't get you far.

It is strange that pretty much - The or etc seem more interested (obsessed) in hating or condemning things from a computer.

Possibly because there is less in the game and you don't have to participate further than than, no need reply, get into , don't have to find more co-operation / things of the mind to find etc

So you* end up in the same spot as before. That's why people have to be on social -

* "you" plural but "you" personal also)

I admit spreading the love and increasing the trust can be harder but that's why those who care are here is it not?

So let's talk... etc

Find a way to and not as much. (all can be converted by talking about it between people)

Thanks

The real are in the State
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Not saying there aren't good people there but professional liers and false promise-makers - NO they are harming us / terrorizing over years and years even if not a bomb directly.

@micr0 Hi, it you're interested in the answer since I didn't hear anything from @altbot

This altbot replies to the post with info as follows:

"Provided by @altbot generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b"

There is a link to "Gemma3:27b" but I'll update when I do another and picture post that needs it and copy the link here...

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In 2025, #Trump administration officials—primarily at the Departments of State and Homeland Security—created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S. eff.org/cases/united-auto-work #Fascism #1u

why things don't work totally and evil grows again (because good people don't talk to each other deeper + distance themselves from each other!...) 

part of why things don't work in the world is because the good people are simply are not going though the motions to increase and interact to discover people and use them how they want.

So your reasons are justified about evil but doing 0 online is also not what we need to something else!

To some level you are mostly a ⬅️ if we take it as today's meaning of 'not caring a lot' as / part of who is also not putting the time in towards good people / just spread the bad shit / not finding the good and pumping that up

🏀 shoot some hoops with good people - talk to them! yo!

"I'm intentionally limiting the amount of information in my bio. To be clear, even though there have been changes to the over time, some of which I don't agree with, the process established by the Constitution is still the proper way to go about governing as long as the same rules are equally applied and done without or . That said, once a governing body (like of ) has become , it is up to citizens to effectuate necessary ."

💬 We the People from currently + hashtags I've added to some words
@PattyHanson

❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓ 

= anything "Bad" ⁉️❓

(modern day version incorrectly used)

is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)

/ also a good thing

...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / . It's which I accept a is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.

Debate welcome on this ...

❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓ 

= anything "Bad" ⁉️❓

(modern day version incorrectly used)

is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)

/ also a good thing

...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / . It's which I accept a is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.

Debate welcome on this ...

@mhalano I self host it on a Debian box at Hetzner, and run ListMonk to run the list.
listmonk.app/

Big cheers to our friends in the US doing their #NoKings protests!

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#NoKings #OperationInflation #NoKingsArt #Frog #FrogArt

We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸

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@randahl

Protest works.
Keep it up, Frogs and unicorns.
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