At equilibrium, I’d say yes.

I am not advocating for violence. However, it is not historically acurate to say that violence has no benefit. As a matter of fact, I can think of instances in the 18th, 19th and 20th century where violent protestors obtained rights or the end of some kind of oppression. I am not sure I can think of even one instance where anyone got anything without some kind of violence (or destruction of private property), even in the 20th century (there was violence in the May 1968 protests, or in the 1936 strikes, etc). The term “sabotage” itself has something to do with workers destroying the workshops by throwing their shoes (called “sabots”) into the machine.

Riots like these are what you get when you prevent any other forms of protests: banning protests (illegal but by the time you get through court to get the ban lifted it is too late), making unions and strikes irrelevant by never ever yielding, preventing votes in the National Assembly using pressures on MP and all that the means that our constitution allows to bypass parliament, even though there is no clear majority for whatever you are doing, forcefully removing peaceful protestors, etc There are reasons why unions was good for everyone, elite class included, they allow peaceful resolution of conflict. If you remove all peaceful avenue, there will be people going into the not peaceful avenue.

I like the Password for Nextcloud app. I self-host mine, but I think there might be Nextcloud instances that you can access. It is encrypted, and has an app for smartphones.

Yes ! This would also be useful on Mastodon.

Do we know that this is the one and only domain that they will use when and if they actually enable federation ?

How do you forward Whatsapp to matrix? Is it two-way?

Very interesting read. Thanks for sharing. I’m curious: have you considered [matrix] nowadays?

I am a scientist myself, and I know what the HCERES says about his institute, and also that his institute no longer had support of the CNRS, which is telling considering that the CNRS only very rarely make such moves, as well as editors no longer accepting his papers leading him to create his own self serving journals. My issues with him are his lack of scientific rigor and lack of scientific ethics. Unfortunately, he’s staining the community as a whole, even though he lost support of several scientific institutions long before the Covid.

This guy is a shame for us all, French academics… sorry World, please know we’re not all frauds….

And naturally, matrix is federated so you can join rooms of any other instance.

I use Matrix (Element client on iOS) with the extended family and it works well. Most of them are not tech-savvy. I self-host my own Matrix instance because I wanted to have control on where personal pictures were hosted.

Same for me.

Maybe your instance was defederated by the instance of the community you are trying to post to? From what I understand, you can check in the Instances link of this server if your instance is listed. I don’t know if that is still true, but I think Beehaw (temporarily?) defederated lemmy.world for example, because it was growing so fast that they couldn’t keep up with the moderation.

Something very simple on the web client: a setting to get links to open in a new tab, to make it easier to get back to the same point in the comments.

I am doing it because it is fun and it is a way to try to understand how things work. I am still not sure whether my answers successfully propagate to all servers.

Yes you need a domain but that is usually quite cheap

I don’t know which ingredients are required but I don’t think they had tomatoes at that time. Wasn’t they discovered in the new world?