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
📖 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.