What does exactly mean hosting your own account?
I mean, you still need to rely on some sort of server somewhere right? Then there's this sentence: hosting an XMPP server is way easier than hosting an XMPP server, which is not clear to me, though I guess it's some sort of type and you meant at the beginning hosting an XMPP account, right?
If there's a server involved, then the messages are getting stored in it, until all devices with clients have synced right?
Well, I wouldn't like AI in any communication client of mine. Perhaps if it's local to my box I would like that, but this solution really seems cloud based, meaning one could have an AI crawling over one's data, to do whatever it wants with it. And local solutions usually are not as "good" as the cloud ones for whatever reason (hardware availability, data, and so on):
for users on less powerful hardware, the development team has integrated NVIDIA’s confidential computing to keep any remote processing secure. Rest assured, those who prefer to skip AI services can continue using Thunderbird without these extras.
There's still tuta, or even /e/ (now a days murena), which still seem safer privacy wise than this new thunderbird option.
I'm really hoping for a "librewolf" kind of fork oriented to privacy, and betterbird doesn't offer anything like that. The phoenix project has a safer user config for both firefox and thunderbird, but that doesn't get rid of components (well perhaps it could possibly turn them off, though to make sure they better get ripped at build time).
Does any one know if this new TB service would offer caldav and carddav services as well? I didn't see anything on stalwart advertisement.
Is there any overlap between already FLOSS applications, whether for mobile (F-Droid for example) or desktop/laptop (GNU+linux for example) and this catalog? Known to date FLOSS applications coming from everywhere, Jami sources for example comes from France and the application is peer-to-peer, XMMP standard protocol specification is governed by the IETF XMPP working group having members from different countries and servers/clients open sources from different people and servers actually all over the world or self hosted... In other words, I don't know if having an European catalog is what really matters.
In my mind, no matter where you live, if you want your freedom[s] respected, you should prefer free/libre software, or at least open source, though in the later case it can be tweaked in ways ignored by you which might be dangerous or might not. If wanting privacy related applications, then the prior is a must but on top of that e2ee encryption is required, as minimal as possible personal information leakage, and hopefully using distributed applications mainly peer-to-peer though at least decentralized ones (hopefully self-hosting), and also security wise being externally audited if possible. I understand the EU requires the data to be stored and kept only within the EU, but that doesn't guarantees privacy any ways, and we should learn that the best is not to trust our information to anyone, and better use peer-to-peer whenever possible or zero trust mechanisms with everything encrypted (protecting the user, not the spying mechanisms so called zero-trust, like falcon-sensor).
So I'm a bit confused by people trusting a state or supra-state backed catalogs, when FLOSS should be what conscious users should be looking for. Interoperability is what really resonates to me, but open standards (open document standard comes to mind for example) if used or for example a simple particular version of markdown (the pandoc one for example) and so on, should guarantee that...
Actually, FLOSS is more precise, given the "L" coming from "libre" in castilian (spanish now a days) referring explicitly to freedom. But it so happen open source != free/libre software, therefore open source usually disregard the philosophic aspect of freedom, which might turn against the users interest, which is what GNU guys were trying to prevent all along, because focusing in the practical aspects, without any concern on the principals behind, actually do have implications on the software itself and its usage.
Yeah, Librewolf by default doesn't use DoT neither DoH, and so your IP is still exposed, but Librewolf had made it fairly easy to change through preferences or the librewolf overrides, whatever more convenient, as stated on its DoH enabling documentation.
You're aware Librewolf removes some stuff, and then provides an already applied though opinionated user script, based on the arkenfox, and an easy way to override settings, right? Meaning it's basically Firefox with sane defaults which can be easily overwritten if needed.
I'm just wondering if having the right mods here at lemmy.ml would be attractive enough for the lemmy.world community to consolidate here at lemmy.ml?
I would jami except you want it web based. And next comes jitsi meet, but I then would suggest self-hosting to avoid people to be subscribed to a sever somewhere, though I don't know if that limits the easy part of it. Jami is easy on PCs, and everyone needs to have it installed, and all be included into a single swarm group, and I believe that's as easy as with google meet. The mobile solution is something I don't recommend at this point, neither syncing devices, but PCs wise, absolutely
Have you heard of verso, it's web browser being built on top of servo, which also aims to help servo to be more "embedable".
IronFox is done by the phoenix developers I believe, and FrozenFennec, which hadn't been released, it more actually based on Mull. If you care IronFox is not part of official f-droid, but offers its own f-droid repo, FrozenFennec is being developed as an extended/special Fennec and it'll be released on official f-droid
Ohh, most probably the OP actually means they're hosting a XMPP server after all. Cool !