The Gemini Protocol does a good job at being a minimal alternative, but it’s quite limited in what is capable. It’ll never be adequate for banking or video games.

Social media and reddit alternatives? No problem.

Those people park by feel, keep moving til tires hit the curb.

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There’s the mobile app for Android, and on my Desktop I just use the website.

i just started using Interstellar on Android. Really liking it so far.

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I use old thinkcentre machines, they’re cheap and are powerful enough for decent servers. I have them loaded with 16gb of RAM and 2x265gb NVME each for mirroring. They work wonderfully.

Liftoff. Just a plain, minimal, and stable experience.

While overall I agree with this, their work on advancing gaming on Linux makes it easy to look the other way.

I’m pretty sure beeper is against TOS if they’re using the Matrix bridge I think they’re using.

I keep a handkerchief on me and do this all the time.

The reason is privacy, everybody has a reason to use it.

This also happened on reddit

Self-host an instance with no karma and no mods.

Well known software built using Matrix. A lot of people have been following this project.

Lemmy.ca is the best. Large local instance, great uptime, good admins.

And we have a handful of large communities.

Syncthing will also work with Nextcloud.

The instances get overloaded quickly and the IPs blocked by google/Microsoft/etc… Better off self-hosting.

Two subreddits that I check on occasion for information/memes, both of which I’m hoping will eventually gain traction here. I don’t have an account though.

Well I guess my personal definition of backup is wrong.