What is the source for this? Wonder just how worried we should be…

I wanted to participate in some Matrix groups, so hosted Conduit. Synapse was out of the question because it is too heavy for my cheap VPS. Some of the groups were encrypted, and my messages there were consistently rendered unreadable! Whether this was a Conduit vs. Synapse or matrix.org vs. everyone else I don’t know, but the result is thw group being rendered unusable.

But my biggest problem is easily the storage, as Conduit offers no way to clean it up and my disk space is really small. The mandatory “everyone stores everything” model is so weird and seemingly unneeded for a chat… Why isn’t it optional at least??

Seriously, why is Synapse - the only fully-functional implementation - so damn heavy? Even the developers admit it doesn’t scale, introducing a different commercial version for big deployments! (wonder if this was the plan all along lol)

Yeah. Would have been much better if it was an option for a group admin - choosing several servers at a time to host if they wanted redundancy. Not forcing it on everyone participating, regardless of their disk size…

Also, from the same source - a dismissive attitude to privacy (which is kind of a big deal if all your searches are tied to a single account, usually paid by a KYC method).

Yeah, very fair points. Just that lacking this desire entirely is very consistent with my experience, so I still prefer to assume most women only “unlock” it under said conditions.

I was told that a lot of women do indeed start to want “it” after forming a deep emotional connection with somebody. Yet to experience that. Most men are just horny at nobody in particular tho

Self-doxing is a major reason why I never tried dating sites/apps. You don’t have any chance there without a photo of yourself, and having my face posted online is a strict “no”. Especially since I don’t really look like an adult, which might attract some… unwanted kind of attention.

But mostly it’s the fact that pretty much all men want sex there.

Yes but Germans everyone likes to copy English words for no reason.

Ye, when outdoors in my wireless headphones, I won’t even hear the difference.

Neat finds) That was not my point though. I just use yt-dlp and don’t feel the need to have a server for my multiple files. I just was wondering if I could help share the preserved content somewhere. I could just link to the torrents on my website, but that wouldn’t be of much use because no one ever would think of searching there…

I find using it in a browser clunky. Much prefer a dedicated app (now I use Tubular), which gives some extra functions like downloads, history and playlists.

I am now downloading everything I personally need or like. Wish there was, say, a torrent index of Youtube videos)

True. But I am not even talking about dedicated content creators (for whom it is indeed an option!). I am talking about, say, an old laptop disassembly guide that a random master uploaded and just forgot about it. People not actively managing their content are not going to bother.

Youtube is not just entertainment tho - the catch is that Google has way too much actually useful info hostage, like lectures, guides or documentaries.

Having to rely on an internet connection for your main connection would be inconvenient as hell.

Because I don’t want it to take up too much space? My phone has a ton of storage but I would still rather not spend tons of it at a time…

I would be more concerned about how phone-oriented it is. A phone’s default OS is such spyware that I am not sure just what is safe from from being uploaded. And even if the person wants a more private alternative, most phones have locked bootloaders. On the other hand, Linux would run on damn near anything… But using Signal on it without a smartphone is very annoying. No way my mom would understand an Android VM or a command-line client, because the desktop client isn’t feature-full and doesn’t even allow registration.

You can enable a registration lock, where anyone with your number would have to enter a pin to register an account with it. However, it removes itself if you don’t log in for a while.

Secure? Idk, maybe. But definitely not private.