the majority of users want and/or need one for user management
Is it too much to ask for self-hosted users/developers to use something slightly more modern, convenient, and easier to implement? Or to simply make it optional? As long as it’s not even an option we’re pretty much doomed to the dinosaur-era of internetting permanently.
your only options are to code it, or ask someone else to
I wasn’t asking for options, I was asking for an explanation.
so it makes sense to spend limited resources on a thing which has the biggest userspace
It makes zero sense to spend any resources on adding compatibility with proprietary and malicious protocols, regardless of “userspace”.
Of course I have. Because one of them is more powerful than the other.
I’ve never seen games that run on Steam Deck that don’t run on any other Linux device, unless the devs specifically made it that way, in which case you give it the ol’ steamdeck=0
I can’t recommend anyone buy a Steam Machine, honestly. I’m glad it exists for those who think they need it but you have a giant choice of hardware otherwise that you can simply slap SteamOS or a number of other distros with “Handheld/Game Mode” on them.
That is, unless it comes with console-like features like HDMI-CEC, updates while “off”, etc.
And you know this since you’ve written code to manage both on different environments, right?
You don’t have to write code to configure Matrix/XMPP.
it has absolutely massive userspace
You keep saying this as if user adoption is the only thing that matters. 99% of self-hosted stuff has tiny “userspace” so I don’t know what you’re on about.
Thank you.
I’m not sure what else are we suppose to say
I wasn’t asking for advice, I was asking for an explanation.
It’s a crapload more work to support XMPP/Matrix/whatever messaging on any platform than…SMTP
It’s absolutely not.
it’d make more sense to use whatsapp
It’d make far less sense considering both the fact that it’s a Meta-owned proprietary data collection and advertising product, and also that they simply don’t support such a functionality.
So, please tell me why a developer should focus their time doing that rather than building the core features of the app.
It’s a whole lot less work than configuring email.
How much work do you think it is to add a toggle that makes email optional?
Why do you assume everyone you interact with is a software developer?
How are they not universal?
I don’t want email to be accessible to those services. I don’t want those services to use email at all.
XMPP? Matrix?
Why do I need a messaging system in the first place?
that no longer relies on Google’s maintenance of the project.
Yeah that’s just a gargantuan task or someone would have done it already. Sadly, too few people care to make that happen.
Huawei did it (HarmonyOS) but only because they’re a huge company with the necessary resources, and because they were legally prevented from using Android.
That seems to be their mid-term strategy, release their own certified device.
If you look up what “Certified Device” means in the context of Android, we don’t want that.
I still think we need a fork of AOSP, before the community atrophies any further.
GrapheneOS is a fork of AOSP.
I think it was ~2008 I was shopping for something online. Then for the next several days, every website I went to would feed me ads for that website I was shopping on. I didn’t understand why it was happening and it was deeply concerning. Oh, to be ignorant again…
I think at this point it couldn’t be more clear that your representatives know what you want and could not care less.
I thought about this but the biggest problem with Android is lack of adoption from developers of third party app stores and UnifiedPush, and similarly widespread adoption of Play Integrity API. This won’t solve those problems.