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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • they don’t want to do anything about federation or messenger intercompatibility.

    Their reasoning is that they only trust themself to keep the meta data safe and so need you.

    That’s not their reasoning. Their reasoning is that it’s much harder to evolve the protocol in a decentralized context than a centralized one. It’s not that they only trust themselves with your metadata, it’s that they can improve the protocol much faster in order to get rid of most metadata.

    They have been able to deploy a ton of protocol updates with regards to minimizing the amount of metadata anyone has access to (including them), while other decentralized alternatives have essentially been stuck in limbo for a while:

    • Secure Value recovery
    • Groups V2
    • Sealed sender
    • Usernames
    • Post quantum resistance

    On the other hand, Matrix, XMPP and email are very leaky with regards to metadata. I’m not going into email because that’s pretty documented, but here it is for matrix:

    • Message reactions are not encrypted
    • Group membership are not encrypted (which lead to attacks)
    • Profile pic and Name are public (visible by everyone even people with whom you don’t have any contact)











  • The is that there are three blocks in a system designed for 2.

    This means no possibility of a majority that is required to pass a budget.

    The current government is essentially the middle between the Far right and the right, which may not hold because that would mean the far right has to admit they’re not that different (same economics, more racism) from the right wing everyone hates.

    The left wing alone is not large enough to have a majority and can’t ally with the right wing because the right wing won’t budge on tax increases for the or more public support for the poor.


  • “sensible” ?

    You mean the party of the president who has so little respect for democracy that he never listened to the massive protests against his policies, and only ever catered to the rich? Who hates democracy so much he called the entire Haitian population “morons” ?

    The “sensible” people that were in power for 7 fucking years, leading to a massive budget deficit but keep saying “it’s not our fault” ?

    The “sensible” people that keep lying, often contradicting themselves in the same sentence?

    Neoliberals are not “sensible” or “centrists”. They’re right wing plutocrats.


  • They’re not “joining a coalition”, they may just vote the same once. There’s no coordination between the two. The left said from the start “this government sucks, we must get rid of them”. The far right said “this government needs to agree to x, y and z or we get rid of them” (and the government did x and y but not z).

    The far right are split between the fact that actually their program is very close to the government and the fact that they must look like “the opposition” for their electors.