Season 7 - Episode 3: Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads

Discussion

• Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️

• Matrix: Federation is ✍️ a feature

• 📱 Element Matrix app

• 📱 Telegram

• Discord offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️

• Mattermost has 🔀 threads and channels

• Matrix spaces are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩

• The Synapse Matrix reference server 🐘🐍

• ⚡ The nimbler Conduit Matrix server

• Mozilla use Matrix 🔥🦊💬

• FluffyChat iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬

• Telegram is domiciled in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)

• Telegram is not opposed to making money 💶

• Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)

• 📲 Signal messenger app is a viable alternative to Telegram

• Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube 🔵🟢💬

• Facebook 📉 stumbles (via The Verge)

• Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video

• Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)

• Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion on the Metaverse in 2021

• 🎞️ Ready Player One

• Second Life 🎮

• 📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia

• The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey 🦍🦴🚀

• Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon 💿

• 💊 Reportedly, social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)

• VPS providers like Hetzner provide Wordpress 🕸️

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The music for this podcast was sampled from Bust This Bust That - Professor Kliq which was released under the CC BY NC SA License.