Sumo and Sushi 2023

The Sumo and Sushi event came to New York City on its last stop of the East Coast tour on June 23-25, 2023. It took place at the Armory Track on 216 Fort Washington Ave., New York, NY 10032. I don’t think it’s ever been possible to see a sumo wrestling match in New York City before, so this was …

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The most intelligent people on the internet use this instead of Slack, Teams, or Discord

There are hundreds of messaging apps out there these days.  Slack is one that has recently become popular for business communications as has Microsoft Teams. Discord is another one that’s become popular with gamers and other consumer communities. These are all, at their very basic level, just “type message, press send” programs. There’s nothing particularly special about that and we’ve …

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The Fediverse should avoid bundling Private Messages completely and implement this instead.

Many servers in the Fediverse have implemented “private mentions” or “private messages” or “direct messages” in a manner that uses the ActivityPub protocol without encryption. Fediverse server administrators are able to read all of these private messages on the server which means they’re not really private.  Some have suggested making them encrypted so that server admins can’t read them, but …

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How to make your own Delta Chat Email Server and compete with WhatsApp/Signal/Telegram

UPDATE: Since this article was published, a new server package has been built that’s even better for use with Delta Chat. The new server is called Chatmail and its open-source repository is here. Also see: Using Delta Chat with Chatmail servers for decentralized, open, secure, private messaging.  The below instructions are still valid if you want to make a server …

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