They have not stopped exporting fossile fuels and to my knowledge at least they also don’t plan to do so in the near future.

While I mostly agree with your argument, the personal attacks are both unecessary and against our site rules.

On TikTok? I doubt that. Do you have any examples?

Most of the content on TikTok is created by people because they want to earn money with it. But most of it isn’t content which would make it possible to build up a supporter base through Patreon, OnlyFans etc. So where is the money going to come from to attract such content creators to a potential Fediverse TikTok alternative?

Extremely selective and not very representative examples, and just parroting some nonsense by industry lobby groups.

Yes, Europe has some structural issues it needs to deal with, but I suspect this video will age very badly in the next few years.

That is all they claim to store for later retrival*, which is not the same as what they would be able to capture in real-time and hand over to law-enforcement if forced to by a court (and they wouldn’t be able to tell you about it because of a gag-order).

*However this claim is contradicted by the source-code of their server (which they sometimes publish) which seems to store significantly more and of course this is assuming the code is indeed the same as the one they run on their servers, which is unclear.

Edit: and their servers run on AWS, so even if Signal itself doesn’t store the IP addresses, Amazon certainly could.

You seem to be highly misinformed what metadata is. A server for example will always have access to unencrypted IP addresses from the clients connecting to it, this is impossible to avoid unless you use a service like Tor that relays internet traffic, but that has very little to do with “encryption”.

Except that most of the metadata isn’t encrypted anywhere and usually also can’t be encrypted as otherwise the service wouldn’t be able to function.

This is false. There is still plenty of metadata that centralized providers can capture and turn over and that is usually sufficient for law-enforcement to get the information they want.

It’s a long thoughtful article about how large corporate social networks are structurally incapable of serving the needs of their users and even well meant attempts to reform them are going to fail because of these structural deficiencies.

Yes it is a general purpose WebDAV server and should work with Zotero. I have not tried it with Zotero specifically, but I use it with several other apps that only offer normal WebDAV support such as Floccus for bookmarks syncing.

Nextcloud uses Webdav internally, but especially the Nextcloud apps expect a lot of additional non-standard extensions to WebDAV so that they don’t work with normal WebDAV servers. KaraDAV has reverse-engineered most of these extensions and thus the official Nextcloud Android and Desktop apps accept it as if it was a real Nextcloud. It is hovever limited to the file sync feature of Nextcloud, no calendars and such.

They can go somewhere else and talk to each other there.

Censorship means that some higher authority wants some information not to be seen by certain people. The target of censorship is therefore the readers/listeners and not primarily the person writing/speaking. Hence if the readers/listeners don’t actually want to read/hear the hateful drivel that some person shouts into the void, removing it isn’t censorship but content curation.

You are missing the point. Feed-in was effectively forbidden in Portugal and even the brand new change in regulation is still a huge bureocratic barrier for minimal possible income that the typical home PV owner could realistically expect (basically only a further reduction in their electricity bill).

Prosody is a XMPP server and not a WebDAV server though.

Well, clickbait title obviously, but the EU will have little choice but to treat US based social media similar to how TikTok is viewed in the US, i.e. operated by a potentially hostile actor.

This is IMHO long overdue, but it comes with the inevitable splintering of public opinion space a bit similar to how there is little overlap with the Chinese or Russian one (but for those the main reason was language barrier).

It has the ”B" tag for bot and you can configure your profile to hide bot posts, but that is really not much different from individually blocking it.

Friendica is federating with Mastodon etc. and also Lemmy etc.

Your loss, as KaraDAV works very nicely and is significantly faster than Nextcloud 😎

Probably lighter and easier to steer?