If you want to do something about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w70Xc9CStoE

It's not technical and more political.

Google is a surveillance company with a huge impact on web standards thanks to its insane market share. Apple on its side uses its forced monopoly to prevent websites from competing with its app store. Gecko depends on Mozilla that depends on google for 90% of its revenue, and is today a good "look we're not a monopoly" excuse for google.

I don't think people want a new engine because the current ones don't work. They want a new engine because they want the web to be truly open.

GTK is in bare C, which is rather easy to interop with Rust. Even if using GLib from Rust is a pain, GTK can and does have decent Rust bindings.

QT on the other hand is C++ with object oriented stuff, and therefore cannot have easy bindings to Rust.

And it's not just r/askreddit all subreddits I tried show a similar drop, including the ones that still seem relatively active.

There was always a need for memory safety, we just didn't know how to do it for low-level software and without significant performance decrease.

Now that we have the solution, it's urgent to deploy it.

Here: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741?refresh=1692174340

And a tweet becomes an "X-cretion"

“You should tweet that” becomes “you should X that”

"You should X-create" that

Signal goes very far to protect even the tiniest bits of metadata.

For example see sealed sender, private contact discovery and group v2.

On the other hand, matrix stores your profile info, group membership, and ongoing conversation metadata in plaintext, some of them replicated across homeservers. In addition to metadata that matrix doesn't encrypt, they also do not encrypt some actual data like emoji reactions.

Edit: clarified that conversations are not in plaintext. My wording what confusing as hell sorry.

• .edu Education (MURICA)

.edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.

To boost the active users numbers

It used to be much more dominated by the tanky rethoric of the devs, and most discussions were around FLOSS/Privacy. Now it's much more diverse.

Also, lots of porn. I kinda wish it were possible to completely block instances as a user. If I understand it's on the roadmap.