It also appears that the first post has to tag the community, so tagging on a reply does not work. Good enough though.

I wonder if it will be analogous to the situation in China. Is an iMessage conversation safe if one party is based in China and their data is stored in data centers there?

This. I bet the experience is better if you use it on an enterprise distro they have precompiled drivers for.

With the boom in AI their focus is increasingly on the data center market, so it's a small miracle (thanks Red Hat and others prodding them) they even have an open driver right now for newer cards (tellingly it's in a better state for computational use than for rendering pixels on the screen)

Here you are:

https://archive.is/amobN

Courtesy of this Mastodon toot

https://mastodon.social/@kcarruthers/110754690602535860

FluffyChat is a decent alternative client (with E2EE support). If you don't need e2ee there's actually a healthy number of clients, and some of them do seem to have it on their roadmap

https://matrix.org/clients/

Point taken on server implementations though

Exciting! l should look at moving by blog from GitLab Pages

For browser I'd just use Firefox with the Facebook Container extension

I heartily recommend Frost too. one downside: if you want to chat with people in EU and UK, FB limits some features (not sure what) for privacy compliance and such chats don't show up in Frost

Settings are available outside meetings -- if you create and account and log in. One of those "makes sense but why can't you save the settings locally?".

I use tiling extensions for my desktop (either PaperWM or Material Shell, for GNOME) so thankfully the "window not maximized" is not an issue, but thanks, I did not realize Screen Sharing auto-fullscreen can be disabled!

If you're on Fedora (maybe other distributions too) you can still start a desktop session on X, so if something doesn't work the fix is just a logout away.

IIRC Zoom screen sharing doesn't work on Wayland, but open source apps mostly work.

it's been reported several times, eg

http://calpaterson.com/mozilla.html

I'm still supporting Mozilla myself, for now, for lack of a batter alternative, but am increasingly on the 'no client-side JS' / 'let's try Gemini' side; the web is getting too complex for alternative browser engines

Facebook should quit every market where it can't demonstrate it has enough moderators with competence in local languages and cultures really.

If it's already bad in the US, imagine how bad it is in ... say, Ethiopia. https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-mark-zuckerberg-should-71796243/

So for additional context: Facebook always claims it benefits small businesses and thus the economy (and doesn't talk much about how its digital advertising duopoly with Google is ruining the news industry - and makes the manipulation of public discourse by news feed and its algorithmic promotion of fringe groups even harder to check)

I'm in complete agreement there. We should try pushing on both fronts - build the replacement from the ground up, but anything that makes it a bit harder for attention economy platforms to maintain the status quo would help too.

This is all great for the percentage of people who can reasonably migrate to these systems, but I have a hard time imagining the information technology platforms of society at large adopting these systems …

Agreed - I think we need more tech-savvy people to adapt these systems and gradually improve them to the point that they are more accessible to the average person.

It's not someting that free software folks are historically good at, so this definitely would not be an easy goal to achieve...

There are claims that regulations like GDPR disadvantages smaller players and actually help Facebook and Google, but it's early days still -- and maybe it makes it harder to compete with FB and Google on their own turf, but that's a red herring and we should incubate business models that are more privacy-friendly to begin with?

Properly-regulated capitalism can be good for small businesses, certainly (and also for their employees) - I am quite fond of Germany's social market economy.

I call the dominant form of libertarianism "right-libertarian" since there is a historical left libertarianism (a.k.a. anarchism, but that term has too many other connotations these days). As you pointed out it leads to really nasty labor conditions -- but it's also not great at preserving competitive markets either, especially in market sectors conducive to natural monopolies (e.g. look at broadband Internet access in the US, or social media).

Sure, that's a valid question, and I also hope we can discuss this without making it a political debate.

Soviet-style command economies have certainly been disastrous for the environment; democratic socialist and social democratic parties in the West have had a better track record.

I'm personally interested in eco-socialism myself; the Green New Deal is a good example of balancing environmental and social justice needs, while the yellow vests movement, IMHO, partly highlights what happens when politicians try to impose ostensibly environmental tax increases at the expense of the average person.

I wasn't trying to use capitalism as an excuse for not becoming vegan -- I can't speak for other non-vegans so I don't know if others do make this excuse, and I apologize if I give that impression, I just mean I see an alignment between trying to be more ethical in my meat consumption and trying to reform the system. Both are necessary and individual behavior changes alone will not be enough, in my opinion.

This IQ2 debate appearance by George Monbiot makes the point on how capitalist economic growth won't bring prosperity for all without ruining the environment better than I can express myself.

For its part, Facebook said that limiting this flow of data could damage the economy and even potentially slow down recovery following COVID-19. The company also promised to remain compliant with European law.

Sure, Facebook, sure...

Indeed. Disclaimer: I'm not (yet?) a vegan, though I am aiming to reduce my meat consumption gradually for moral/environmental reasons.

The right-libertarian everyone-for-themselves selfishness, and unregulated capitalism (some would argue, capitalism itself by its very nature) are detrimental to not just animal life (whether cattle or wild) but also to individuals and small businesses, so anything that begins to tackle it is good news. I just hope it's not too late.