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Yeah, but you (or someone in a similar situation) will have to take them to court for the legal situation to be clarified. Just putting another license on the code will not stop them.

The problem is that the AI companies claim they are just “reading” the code to let their AI models learn from it, thus licenses / copyright doesn’t apply in their interpretation of the situation.

Misskey works like and is compatible with any Mastodon or similar Fediverse instance. Once registered you can subscribe to local and remote users and then only see their updates and not the firehose all feed as on the public landing page.

You don’t need a Misskey (or Sharkey) account to participate in Japanese language Fediverse discussions, however note that due to different CSAM related legislation quite a few larger Japanese Fediverse instances are defederated from western Mastodon etc. instances due to frequently shared “loli” illustrations on the former.

It supports Webpush, so if you use a browser for the PWA that support that you should be getting notifications. In my experience it isn’t quite as reliable as a native Android app though, but nothing really stops you to have both on your phone connecting to the same account.

Yes, but that is wrong. It is all open-source and you can run an entirely unlimited version with any xmpp server yourself.

You can self-host it without any restrictions. The website is a bit unclear on that.

XMPP based https://prose.org/ might be an option, but it isn’t officially released yet (you can selfhost it though).

Naja, vielleicht ist die CxU ja doch etwas lernfähig 🤷

You could also look into hosting a distributed Garage cluster for S3 compatible media storage with a few other people. Most fediverse software including Lemmy is compatible with that for image storage etc.

Snikket is definitly not harder to set up than Synapse or Condinuwuity, the difference is mainly that Matrix is based on standard web technology, so if you have some knowledge in that already, XMPP can feel a bit alien since it is an actual protocol different from http(s).

Movim is entirely different software indeed that even predates Conversations by a few years.

This is FUD (and I am getting really tired of this half-assed blog post being shared everywhere). The older OMEMO version used is not insecure. The newer version is better, yes, but it is an enhancement in regards to metadata protection, the core e2ee of the message body is unchanged and secure in both versions.

Nextcloud is a special case…

Snikket makes it quite easy, but the extra complexity of hosting from home is probably better avoided for total beginners.

Yes, Matrix is a bit ahead with SFU calls (after depending on Jitsi Meet for a long time, which uses xmpp under the hood). But for most usecases it doesn’t matter so much. On a modern internet connection a SFU basically only starts being useful in calls with ten or more participants. For corporate board meeting calls maybe, but your family call is also fine without.

There is no way sending free healthcare to foreign countries might backfire with the local population in the US, right?

This might be interestng for some xmpp webclients, but there is also the work in progress: https://github.com/conversejs/libomemo.js

Both is fine. Prosody has more customisation options. Ejabberd could potentially open easy access to Matrix rooms as well in the future, as they are working on a built in gateway for that. It kinda works already, but it isn’t production ready I think.

The big advantage of XMPP would be that the server is so lightweight that it would easily run on the same server/VPS as the Piefed instance and never cause any problems with resource usage.