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okay so chatmail server is up and running, who's got a Delta Chat address I can exchange some messages with?

"deployment server with reachable SMTP/SUBMISSIONS/IMAPS/HTTPS ports. IPv6 is encouraged if available. Chatmail relay servers only require 1GB RAM, one CPU, and perhaps 10GB storage for a few thousand active chatmail addresses."

hey at least its very low resource usage server side

I think I might fuck around and set one of these chatmail servers for funsies

@nivex yeah that is my concern as well. e-mail was never designed for instant messaging.

oh right. DeltaChat is the one that uses e-mail (SMTP+IMAP) as the transport protocol.

https://chatmail.at/doc/relay/

Setting up a chatmail relay doesn't seem *too* bad? seems like a Postfix+Dovecot stack.

multiple folks have told me about Delta Chat now, I haven't tried it yet

do any of y'all use this?

I use a combination of Signal/Discord/iMessage/IRC to talk to everyone I want to talk to

[ iMessage is basically exclusively for close family members right now, I don't really like using it but I also don't want to try and get all my family members to switch to Signal. ]

I didn't even mention the biggest problem of all - getting the people you talk with to switch away from WhatsApp/Signal/Facebook Messenger/LINE/WeChat etc.

unless you exclusively talk to other computer touchers its a no go

self-hosting chat apps is basically a different set of compromises for each choice, there is no "good" option

IRC - primitive, basically unusable on mobile

XMPP - better than IRC, federates, easy to self host, multi-device is a problem

Matrix - federates, heavy server side app (Synapse) involving a database and a web app for the web interface, scaling issues if you start joining big servers, issues with managing E2E encryption

at least with XMPP the server side is relatively quite simple to run and maintain

Matrix on the other is a fucking million part monstrosity that the only way I got it running is to use a specific Ansible playbook that does it using Docker containers

I'd rather use XMPP over Matrix and I don't even like XMPP because the UX is just kinda trash if you use multiple devices, especially mobile

now that Discord is going to IPO, maybe this will finally be the year of everyone using Matri---*actually can't even finish that sentence without laughing*

funny and infuriating to think that people see an em dash in a bit of writing and think it is something an LLM spat out - nah fuck you, I just like em dashes.

Furthermore I like to use words like the first one in this sentence and have been doing so before this bubble existed and will continue to do so after it ends.

so to me it is darkly funny that people are now making a machine spit out sentences for them.

For a long time I was very self conscious about how my writing was cold & unemotional, I thought I wrote like a machine. In fact a former employer told me something to that very effect once which didn't help matters either.

Part of this was that I had trouble expressing genuine emotion outside of writing which then also manifested into writing very unemotionally. Yay for mental repression.

Part of this also was an artifact of the way I learned English. I didn't learn how to properly construct paragraphs and paragraphs into essays until I took English as a Second Language classes in high school and for a while after that I wrote in a very rote boring kind of way because that's what I internalized from my schooling.

Over the last decade or so I learned how to actually process my own emotions and I think my writing has improved over the year as I just wrote more and learned how to express emotion in my writing.

LB: https://marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-i-dont-write-like-chatgpt

since it is basically impossible at this point to detect LLM generated text with any degree of accuracy I have two concurrent fears:

- unbeknownst to me some new mid book I've read recently contains LLM generated text

- a author who has a writing style similar to how a LLM like ChatGPT writes is going to be unfairly and unjustly called out for using LLMs in their writing

I am honestly surprised that no big author has been caught using LLMs to write their books. Sure small indie authors have been caught using LLMs because they left the prompt they used in the text but no one big.

Earlier in the year there were allegations going around that Silver Elite by Dani Francis was written largely in part using LLM generated text but as far as I know there wasn't any actual evidence that was the case.

folks were suspicious that this book and author came out of nowhere, the author is clearly using a pseudonym (which in itself is not unusual but..) and nobody knows who the actual author is and what they look like etc.

and also the book's content itself is very derivative dystopia + romance slop.

Occam's razor - It is probably just a mid book with a author who wants to stay private.