I think the Portuguese one wins on style alone.

Edit: full listing here: https://www.treeoftheyear.org/vote

https://github.com/lldap/lldap

Or maybe: https://gitlab.com/yaal/canaille

Points at the general political situation in the US…

Old used cars etc. sold privatly are often done in cash. And then the person selling the car has to use that cash somehow as bringing it to the bank is usually a hassle or even impossible if the bank you use has closed nearly all in person shops.

I think you will be back at Ipfire soon. OPNsense is a confusing mess and while IPfire certainly has its issues, at least it is easy to understand and it does what it is supposed to.

For now you can use XMPP with the Slidge Signal gateway. At some point there will be an issue with Signal due to their centralized servers in the US and then you will be happy to not depend on it so much.

XMPP server (Prosody) that can also act as a Unified Push distributor.

That would be nice, yes.

Says who? And besides, permanent border checks within the Schengen area are illegal.

Threema sadly blocks api access behind a paywall and community interest isn’t high enough to have resulted in a workaround using the regular client access.

As for the main request, it is probably a bad idea to move to messengers as the primary communication tool. I would rather suggest to look into a tool like Loomio that has nice notification options to link the decision making process to various chat apps.

They seem to promote the idea that Europe is behind on AI technology and that with the right type of regulation AI is something desireable. This is the lobby line that AI companies like Anthropic and Mistral have been pushing hard to differentiate themselves from companies like OpenAI, but ultimatly it is the same kind of false AI or bust message that all these companies like to push.

There is no feature to ban specific domain links in communities. So what you are really asking for is us moderators to get into turf wars with people posting these links.

Believe it or not, but this has been historically an issue in this community and my dm inbox is full of people complaining about us removing links to dubious sources.

I personally think Politico is not quite at the level that requires moderator intervention in blanket style. It is more like some tabloid that requires more scrutiny about the sources used and so far the commenters here did a good job contextualizing such articles.

That you think Gajim looks like it was build in 2001 tells me you haven’t used XMPP in quite a while 😅

The Signal foundation also controls the ends, as they control the official clients and can push encryption breaking updates to end user devices; in cooperation with Google/Apple even to selected devices of individual people which makes this nearly impossible to detect.

Such leading questions 🤡 That is an AI promotion piece in disguise.

Well, I think XMPP or Snikket is worth a try and definitely more reliable than Matrix, but you might also want to look at DeltaChat.

Mumble is nice, but it hasn’t changed much since the time people explicitly moved away from it to Discord, so why would they go back it it now?

No, I think it is rather an example of the mindset that only large conglomerates can be at the top of the value chain and given that most of the current eastern European suppliers work for such I guess that is a easy mistake to make from that perspective.

So why bring the example of Samsung then?

Yes, but it isn’t a Discord replacement, but rather a WhatsApp replacement.

https://movim.eu/ is xmpp based and might be more suitable as a Discord replacement, but to be honest it isn’t quite there yet if you are looking mainly for a voice chat app.