This is actually a feature missing from many browsers. Maybe Discord has a workaround, not sure.

Movim.eu recently added it, but it only works on Chromium based browsers.

They removed a lot of cruft and low quality code from Pleroma and in general it is developing at a nice and steady pace. In addition the developers are not right-wing nut jobs.

Akkoma is better. Look for those.

Piefed does that partially. It also aggregates votes to send them in batches which is apparently saving server resources, but sadly it only works between Piefed instances and not with Lemmy.

Fedidb does that for instances, but not individual communities. Might be easy to add though.

Most microblogging platforms actually don’t artificially limit the amount you can write, unlike Mastodon, so they can also work for macro-blogging.

Seems to have a bit of an controversial history: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/cachyos-founder-explains-why-they-didn-t-join-the-new-open-gaming-collective-ogc/

Apparently a rebranded LiveKit, which is developed by an US American company…

If someone wants to set one up, I am happy to give technical advise, but right now I can not commit running yet another fediverse instance.

Garage has deduplication of all files, yes. Obviously if you host something on server not under your control you have to have a certain trust in them. Generally speaking Garage seems to be a good replacement for Minio, but I don’t have any direct tips for migrating.

There was also a project for Mastodon to sit between it and any S3 storage that would allow sharing and deduplicating files between instances, but I can’t find it right now and forgot the name. But it seemed stuck in a rewrite and not actively developed outside of that.

Its is commonly done with S3 compatible storage, and projects like Garage allow to do so in a distributed way.

Neither Bittorrent or IPFS seem particularly well suited for this.

I would love to comment on this, but unfortunatly I lack time and energy 👍

although XMPP doesn’t necessarily natively have video call, usually you’ll have an accompanying TURN server

The same is true for Matrix and the popular Ejabberd xmpp server has a Stun/Turn server built in, which makes it even easier to setup than what you have on Matrix.

P.S.: Matrix also isn’t a messaging protocol. It is a distributed database protocol that has been abused for making a messenger with it.

Taler isn’s a currency but a payment system. So yes, each token generating entity (exchange) would have their own token. There could be some sort of backend settling mechanism between exchanges (I think Taler is working on that), but basically the person receiving the token would have to redeem it with the same exchange that issued it. Legally it can’t be directly exchanged back to fiat money, but the exchange could issue a service contract with the person and pay them according to the tokens they hold.

There is no need for a central org. It could be many different ones all using the same Taler software. In fact given the legal limitations that’s probably the only way to do it.

Such a system could be easily set up with GNU Taler. I have been thinking about something like that for a while, and the main issue is the legal regulations for the organization that receives the real money. If you are not registered as a bank it is severely restricted where and how you can operate. The laws in Europe are basically ok if you want to have some temporary cashless payment system in a music festival or so, but something permanent and with more money involved is hard to do under the current rules.

Such a system could be set up relatively easily with GNU Taler. The problem is rather on the legal side for the organization that holds the funds and converts it to the tokens. Unless you are registered as a bank there are severe limitations on how much money you can hold and covert.

Sounds a lot like Nostr, no?

Edit: or maybe SimpleX? I keep confusing various implementation details between the two.

They have been selling the same SoCs (slightly defective ones) in various forms for crypto-mining etc. and as a result Linux kernel support is supposedly quite good already.

That is already possible, but the hacks to get it actually to run are quite annoying and limited to a few older versions AFAIK.

Hopefully with this you can just boot Linux normally on a PS5 in the nearish future. Would definitely make for a nice Steam Machine.