I just ask other people in line for their loyalty cards. Or find valid barcodes for them online.

Yes, exactly!

I got the impression that they like crypto as an industry, not as a tool. I doubt they would guarantee safety for, as an example, KYC-less Monero exchangers.

I do see that appeal, because we have already seen that surveilled KYC transactions are undesirable in many situations, like if you’re making a donation to a dissident. While indeed, crypto cannot scale enough to be a primary method of payment - it still needs to be there as an alternative pathway.

The energy usage was criticized not in absolute terms, but in relation to the numbers of transactions. Cryptocurrencies are criticized for consuming more energy while being much lower in volume.

That said, we do need projects like Monero now. At least at the present moment, it is the closest we have to “digital cash”.

That would only really work on mobile, though - and that’s assuming the OS isn’t custom.

I don’t see a problem with a slippery slope here though. Given how many people would have a strong motivation to evade said censorship, they would likely use it as an excuse to improve their censorship infrastructure.

At least in Freetube, there is an option to change to the normal audio. But yeah, the fact that it is on by default is annoying. The other sad thing is that the titles of the videos will be translated into your language if available, making you confused about whether the channel is originally in English or in your native language. Also losing some originally present puns in the process, which is just sad.

I was talking about Matrix - specifically the fact that it stores every message and piece of media on every participating server, unlike XMPP. Indeed not had such a problem on XMPP.

While storage is my main concern (my VPS is very limited in this regard), there is also the fact that you can very well end up with nasty materials stored on your server without a convenient way to delete it. Even if you don’t let strangers have accounts on your server.

I wonder how in the world Ofcom could enforce that?

Signal is pretty control freak-y, so would not be surprised if they can somehow prohibit third-party modifications entirely. That would be out-of-character for them, though, so doubt they would actually go through with this.

Still, if that went through, I’d discount all the centralized solutions.

I don’t see how this would be a problem either except on Apple. Blocking the sites offering the apk/deb/exe/etc - good luck, doubt their censorship skills are that good given that they’re unlikely to want a ton of collateral damage like more authoritarian places.

Monero-paid VPSes cost more, and given this fact, my €5 VPS (with a few other services already running there) would apparently not be enough for Synapse… But an XMPP server runs perfectly.

His point was the main Matrix.org server being way too prominent. In every given groupchat, chances are somebody is on this particular server. It is also the default for many clients.

lol I mostly know flywheels as old rollercoaster launches before LSMs were a thing

If I earned 60k a year while working what is a normal week, I don’t even think I would be seeking extra income. That is more money that I can even imagine managing now. If I were male, my spouse could even go without working entierely because my income would be enough!

Pixels are only good for easy degoogled OS installation.

The point was not in the e2e aspect though, but rather in the metadata since everything goes through the same place.