Yes, but they dont have access to anything that could do that unless you give it to them. When you use Facebook directly in can do loads of fingerprinting. This cannot be done on the Fediverse unless the actual instance youre using is doing it.

Yes, but its far harder to associate the identity with others, meaning it doesnt really accomplish much for them. They can't target ads at a user based on their mastodon account unless they associate it with the users advertising IDs on other sites.

Sunshine should be able to do hardware encoding for that GPU, it has support for VA-API

Pretty much lol. If I remember correctly his reason for leaving was them adding moderation tools

he left Bluesky around 2 years ago

The majority of people just aren't bothered by them.

AdNauseum has a built in whitelist for ethical ads which I'm happy to leave enabled. I see them on some blogs I read and on the option search page for Home Manager.

It sounds like you could use any markdown app that supports tags or links. You can search for file by tag or create index notes that you link other notes to, letting you view all of them from the backlinks pane.

A lot of Obsidian users do not use folders for organization at all, both of the methods above are common. You could also look at Logseq which has similar features.

Apologies if I'm misunderstanding your requirements, lmk if I did.

The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.

Even if a third party app supported it, it'd still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.

I think it comes from the fact that a lot of communities and projects use Discord basically like they would with IRC, with voice chats often not even existing in some servers. I have to assume the people who recommend Matrix are only ever in that kind of server.

I'm in 2 or 3 servers with different friend groups and of course each one is full of friends of friends of friends. Even the smallest is over 30 people, but I only regularly join VC with 3-4. If I had to call all of them to be in a voice call I would literally never do it.

Same goes for chats, in Matrix the closest things to channels and servers is rooms and spaces. The difference is that you don't join a space, you just view rooms in the space and join them. Most of my servers have a ton of different channels for different things, I want to be able to see what happens in all of them without having to join each one, announcing to them that I've joined.

I like Matrix for FOSS project discussions, but I don't think it'll ever be the right pick for just hanging out with friends.

This is just a link to the branding repo. There isnt much to maintain in there.

Drop-in voice channels are a requirement for a discord alternative, Matrix does not have them. AFAIK you still need to call an entire channel to start a voice chat.