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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