where anyone can create and fully own unstoppable communities.

One man’s “unstoppable communities”, are another man’s “spam and NSFW content” 🤷

I think you need to make up your mind what you actually want. Gatekeeping access under the guise of fighting spam seems directly contradictory to the stated goal of your project, and assuming it wouldn’t be flooded with such content when most of the internet consists of such was pretty naive.

You can just make the questions more location or theme specific. There is no way a bot will not slip up on stuff like that, and it doesn’t need to be 100% fail proof either.

We get a lot of LLM bot applications on our instance, and even if it would get 10x harder, they would be still really easy to spot.

Admin review of account applications in Lemmy works fine. If you ask people to write a bit, it’s quite easy to sort out the bots as there are always give-aways. And if people use LLMs to write the responses, then that’s on them 🤷

You can also mount WebDAV folders like that.

Clearly a labour of love 👍

Maybe support for some music streaming apps (subsonic?) would be cool?

Yeah, those are very convenient and much easier than having to deal with Kubernetes or such.

Ejabberd has more enterprise features and scales better for large public servers, Prosody has more interesting community modules and generally is ideal for smaller private servers (but has a very nice invite system).

I think you can’t connect new devices or so and the development has stalled. But I don’t use Signal personally, so not 100% sure. AFAIK the Matrix bridge is currently being rewritten with another backend.

The Prosody docker images are basically https://snikket.org/ which is developed by one of the Prosody developers.

But Ejabberd also has good Docker containers.

The Signal gateway has currently issues, due to Signald being broken.

For WhatsApp and Discord there is Slidge.

IRC works great with Biboumi.

I am not aware of a Google voice bridge, but there are ways to bridge to the regular phone network and sms. The easiest is the https://jmp.chat/ service.

Yes there are gateways (or transports) for xmpp. See for example https://slidge.im/ but there are also a few other projects.

It’s maybe a bit less than for Matrix, but the ones that exist tend to work better.

The main Nginx was still up, but the server it redirects to for the Lemmy backend was down. It eventually recovered itself, but it took longer than usual.

We are having stability issues with the server right now due to what looks like a new memory leak in Lemmy.

I am traveling this weekend, but I hope to find time to properly investigate it later this week.

The default Android on them is pretty standard including Google Play services, so it is not great in regards to privacy (but could be worse, like an Apple device or so).

But for most of their models you can find good alternative Android roms or even mobile Linux distributions like PostmarketOS.

Social democrats do not code as “right” anywhere in the world.

Except in Portugal, where the conservative party calls themselves Social Democrats.

This assumes the official upstream is not compromised. Apple absolutely will push new vulnerabilities in updates when requested so by higher level law enforcement and/or the NSA etc. The FBI is also known to have placed moles in app vendor teams.