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Season 7 - Episode 3: Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads

Linux Lads
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 3 min
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Discussion

  • Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️

  • Matrix: Federation is ✍️ a feature

  • 📱 Element Matrix app

  • 📱 Telegram

  • Discord offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️

  • Mattermost has 🔀 threads and channels

  • Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩

  • The Synapse Matrix reference server 🐘🐍

  • ⚡ The nimbler Conduit Matrix server

  • Mozilla use Matrix 🔥🦊💬

  • FluffyChat iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬

  • Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)

  • Telegram is not opposed to making money 💶

  • Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)

  • 📲 Signal messenger app is a viable alternative to Telegram

  • Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube 🔵🟢💬

  • Facebook 📉 stumbles (via The Verge)

  • Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video

  • Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)

  • Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion on the Metaverse in 2021

  • 🎞️ Ready Player One

  • Second Life 🎮

  • 📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia

  • The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🦍🦴🚀

  • Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon 💿

  • 💊 Reportedly, social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)

  • VPS providers like Hetzner provide Wordpress 🕸️

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