Campist shit. The current Iranian government is fundamentally opposed to any progressive and liberating ideas. They don’t even pretend otherwise like some nominally socialist states did. The only argument against an outside intervention would be that a stable situation where people can mostly live their lives is at least in the short run preferable to destruction and war. But with the latest mass killing of protestors that idea is pretty much dead, even if they manage to turn it into a new graveyard peace.

Edit: the way the article is written, including specific terms, makes it unlikely that this was written by an actual anarchist and is rather an attempt at entryism of some MLs.

What people say about Synapse is also somewhat outdated. These days it isn’t actually that much worse than Conduit (or forks), the main issue is that when you start joining older and bigger rooms the resource use goes through the roof, and that is also a problem with Conduit etc. Ultimately, this is a protocol issue and not an implementation issue.

There are multiple good XMPP mobile apps for Android: https://joinjabber.org/docs/apps/

The story on iOS is somewhat less good right now, but Monal is ok and Movim works quite well as a PWA in Safari.

Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…

XMPP is generally nicer to host due to lower resource requirements and better server management in general. The mobile apps are also more snappy and need much less battery, plus notifications are more reliable.

Matrix has somewhat more public rooms of FOSS projects you can join, but typically these projects are also available on IRC, which you can join via the excellent Biboumi gateway for XMPP.

That can be also done with a Slidge gateway for Discord on XMPP.

If someone wants to set one up, I am happy to give technical advise, but right now I can not commit running yet another fediverse instance.

They have probably done more harm than good 🤷

As others have said already, email is one of the few things I would avoid self-hosting.

You could check with your domain / DNS host if they also offer email. OVH for example gives a free 5GB email for every domain. Otherwise there are of course email providers that let you use your own domain.

They backed out long ago, but are currently returning with AndroidXR. It does feel a bit half-hearted, but it is definitely a thing right now.

Originally planned to ship with Android XR, Lynx-R2 is actually set to launch with Lynx OS following Google’s decision to withdraw support.

Anyone knows what this is about? Seems odd that Google would do that right now.

You are funny. That article links directly to what media typically refers to, i.e. “mass media”.

Ask any typical person around you what they understand if you talk about “the media”, and they will confirm that this indeed refers to what I am talking about.

The “social” qualifier is a direct reference to how normal media is a one way street and how publishing is only open to a selected few and that is what sets “social media” apart from it.

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

No, that is not what “media” means. That might be what the original word in Latin meant, but in English it is used to refer to things like newspapers, TV channels and so on, and “social media” is a direct reference to that.

A social network is social media that allows to form groups or communities. Two people communicating is not a network, the whole point of a network is interconnection between members of a group.

Indeed, and that is why I don’t really agree to classify WhatsApp as a social network, but it has chat groups, so it is closer to a social network than social media.

Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.

Wat? Sorry, but your definition is even further from anything that could be called a consensus. You could maybe argue that WhatsApp is a social network, but it definitly isn’t social media and it is completly outlandish to claim so. Where do you even get the “media” part in it? You know, compound words are still made up of individual words that have a meaning by themself. Kinda funny that you accuse me of “making up definitions” 🙄

But sure there are some blurry edges between them. For example, Instagram is primarily used for social media, but the direct messages are more used like a social network.

I would guess once the Hollow Night devs release a version that isn’t slowed down by two compatibility layers (Proton and FEX) it should work quite well on the Steam Frame hardware.

But yeah, it’s not going to be 500, but I think it is worth the extra cost over the Quest3.

Maybe Nextcloud hosted by Hetzner? https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share/

That agreement seems basically dead now after the recent heavy attacks and large parts of the arab members of the SDF switching sides.

However, with the US troops seemingly having abandoned the Kurds yet again, and the SDF coalition desintegrating, it doesn’t look good for Rojava.

Edit: looks like after the agreement from Sunday failed, there is now another 4 day cease fire for the SDF to sort out what basically amounts to their surrender. Not great, but it might prevent some bloodshed.

First of all I would recommend you use Piefed instead. Easier to setup and maintain.

But I am not sure exactly what you want that Lemmy/Piefed instance for? As an internal forum of sorts? That can work, but is not really what it was developed for and there are better (non-federated) options.

If you want it to be an actually federated instance then the Rasberry will not cut it. The desktop might, if it has some good SSD storage for the database.

For in game voice-chat the simplest option is a Mumble server. Very low resource use and runs great on a Rasberry like yours. Otherwise you could also try setting up a Movim instance. It has text chat and voice/video calls that should reasonably work as a Discord substitute for small groups. It is also quite low resource and should run fine on that Rasberry.