Since the Xiaomi 17 Ultra was released, I’ve been looking for reviews that really talk …
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8 ways the Fediverse is better than Meta Threads by Instagram
Meta (Facebook) released yet another social media network app called “Threads by Instagram”. It’s basically a clone of the Twitter interface, but automatically lets you follow everyone you follow on Instagram. That’s the thing that made it so popular so quickly… all you have to do is log in with your Instagram account. This makes it extremely easy for Instagram users, who may think they’re too good for Facebook, to join a new Facebook-run social …
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Dressing Generations Fashion Show
On June 25, 2023 an interesting fashion show was held at the Hutong restaurant bar in New York City. It was organized by several recent Fashion Institute of Technology graduates to showcase their work. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Adam Z. Lein (@adamzea) The show included designers such as: SHIYU ZUO, Felicia Stump Amal Byamal …
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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 certainly a “must see” event. It wasn’t a real sumo wrestling match per-se though, as …
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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 been doing it for decades on the internet. Unfortunately, those consumer-friendly products are designed with …
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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 that poses more problems. For example, who’s responsible for enforcing local laws on the server? …
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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 that supports both encrypted Delta Chat communications as well as regular federated email. If you’ve …
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