Poezio still supports OTR, and also supports OMEMO mostly^[1].

To be honest I’m also not entirely sure why OTR was dropped. At the time when OMEMO was introduced it may have had a better crypto mechanism (based on Signal’s) but OTR has caught up with this not so long after.

One common argument I hear against OTR is that it is transport-agnostic, and this prevents features from being used and included in the encryption. But the same argument that OMEMO (0.3) prevents features from being used and included in the encryption could have been made when it was first adopted, and it is still the case today while nobody implements the latest spec version (0.8). Hopefully this should change soon.

Note that being transport-agnostic is also an argument in favor for some use-cases, such as gateways. Plug in your OTR addon of choice and chat across various bridges. Otherwise both sides of the bridge need to agree on a common encryption mechanism and a serialization format. I’m not sure there is any other use-case where this (being transport-agnostic) is actually useful though.

I doubt they’ve “done” anything to GitHub. GitHub has done that to themselves by buying into capitalism, being a centralized platform, etc. I’m not sure what else people expected of it.

To me it’s just a confirmation that accumulation of wealth is not something to wish for. One person – or a small group of people – shouldn’t be able to make this kind of decision on their own.

Very little if not nothing changes for Twitter. They’re losing a marginal amount of users, just like every time there’s a scandal around Facebook, some people leave, but the vast majority stays and they still benefit from network effect and will do for the foreseeable future.

I’m trying not to be pessimistic but it’s not an easy exercise.

Still getting used to this type of medium, but it looks ok. I guess we’re missing users now :)

I’m wondering what to do with other languages? I’d like not to shutdown attempts at creating language-specific communities. Is this something that we want to manage on this instance?

Is there a place somewhat obvious to see user activity as an admin? I haven’t seen it at all, just got warned on the channel. I can see lots of activity in the modlog for sure!

Having a baseline document to refer to is definitely something I’d be in favour of. There are many examples of CoCs around that we can reuse/adapt to our use-case :)

Thanks!