@Edent what's so bad about <div> ... or: Why do you want to avoid them?

[robert@irrelevant.me.uk]

@rachel @Edent
Nor me. Has mastodon DDoSd it?

[philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com]

@Edent Oh dear.

[zonuexe@phpc.social]

@Girgias @Edent

Sorry I missed your mention for a few months.

“Suimasen, sore o torasete kudasai.”
(Excuse me, let me take a picture of that. / I’d like to take a photo of this. Do you mind?)

Whenever you decide to return, I hope you enjoy Tokyo to the fullest again!

[gilesdring@mastodon.me.uk]

@Edent Should have been a radio button field.

[railmeat@fosstodon.org]

@Edent

I hope this is mockery, otherwise I am missing something.

[netopwibby@social.coop]

@Edent This sounds like me. I told my wife a few weeks ago that I need to get out the house for these same reasons.

[drlucyrogers@mastodon.social]

@abeorch @Edent @newzealand thank you

[nathanael@exquisite.social]

@Edent i pay rent and refill my prepaid phone credits with bitcoin

[stonebear2@hachyderm.io]

@Edent Uhhhhhh... that behaviour is _illegal_ under GDPR. You're _required_ to be able to utterly blast _your data_ to smithereens. Reddit's solved this... (I've been eyeballs deep in GDPR for _weeks_ because some Amerikaanse klootzak won't delete my data...)

Which is depressing af b/c I was _considering_ Matrix as an alternative in light of Signal's insistence on AWS US-EAST1... but what you just pointed out makes it a non-starter...

[edent@mastodon.social]

@stonebear2 Signal is fine. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.

[haagch@mastodon.online]

@Edent There's a lot of things that suck in matrix but it's the one ecosystem that actually makes accessing it easy (hence the spam problem, perhaps).

For example, what's signal's official stance on how users without Android or iOS should create an account?

[haagch@mastodon.online]

@Edent Not to discount your experience with whatever official app was used, but the Element web client has been consistently worked wherever I had a web browser (and in the past the Element android app), even if slow and sluggish.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@haagch I don't know - you should ask them.

[martijn@noisesfrom.space]

@Edent would you agree that Signal and Matrix are trying to solve different communication needs?

I appreciate what they're trying to achieve. I agree that the client and moderation tools situation is poor. You read about bigger communities like GrapheneOS slowly preferring Discord because of it. (Which in context of taking moderation action has a much, much worse track record than Matrix)

[edent@mastodon.social]

@martijn
No, they're pretty much the same. I'm in a large number of group chats on Signal. It works better than Matrix for that.

Re moderation. I've never been bombarded with hate messages and spam on either Signal or Discord. So they're obviously doing something right

[phil_tanner@mastodon.philtanner.com]

@Edent welcome home!

[dan@mastodon.durrans.com]

@Edent 6 weeks away and a fun little project for your first weekend back? Bliss.

[edent@mastodon.social]

@neil ah. Well, possession is 9/10th of the law, right?

[cyberoutsider@infosec.exchange]

@Edent @neil Say that the current owners aren't giving the house the attention it deserves and that you need it for strategic purposes and you'll have cover with current geopolitics.

[woe2you@toot.wales]

@Edent Is it showing up by mdns name?