spiraldancing

The title doesn't make it clear. It's a fund-raiser; they need money.

Promising-sounding non-profit dedicated to advancing FOSS-based Federated Networks (Matrix, Pleroma, Mastodon, Diaspora, etc). They provide several free federated servers/services.

They're also looking for membership, costs €1/month and gets some extra perks. I'm joining.

I've been using Mint and Ubuntu for the past 5 years. Installed Pop on a spare laptop 18 months ago, to experiment with.

Switched to Pop as my primary OS 3 months ago.

There isn't much that's radically different ... it's just better, cleaner, more polished, smooth.

>GMail doesn't actually filter spam. It just hides it

This is not accurate. There is a long on-going issue with GMail (and others) wholesale blocking delivery of email from domains/IPs/providers it deems to be spam or otherwise inappropriate. GMail users get no indication/notification, and generally have no idea that email sent to them was simply not delivered.

Nice idea, I signed up.

Curious to see how you handle weighting/filtering of the sources, the whole "fake news" issue.

Not your primary concern, I'm sure, but I don't (normally) use Google, nor allow Google-tools into my browser. I am a small-but-vocal minority. There are good alternatives to Google's recaptcha, Google-docs registration, etc. Just sayin'.

Actually sounds very similar to how the rocket equation works, too.

And yet we appear to be debating.

Lie detectors are a measure of heart rate, respiration, and galvanic skin response (roughly == how much you sweat).

What relationship—if any—those have to the truthfulness of a person at any given moment, remains debatable at best.

Here's a first-hand review. I posted this as a reply a minute ago, then decided to make it a primary comment.

Wire has been my go-to communications app for 2-3 years now. Running it on a Google-free phone, it has gradually become more buggy, and less reliable over time, and sadly, still the best secure/encrypted app I could find.

Testing Jami. I tried Ring 8-10 months ago. Text worked, audio/video did not.

In the past few days, trying Jami, audio-only works very well - clear, crisp, no lag - much better than Wire. Video was a bit buggy, but still decent.

Connectivity was an issue, calls froze, or got cut off a couple times. Tentatively, it looked like switching from a local WiFi to phone ISP was at least part of the problem.

Also, using the same account across multiple devices is a bit buggy. Contacts established on one device are not available on the other.

All things considered, the basic quality of the connection is very good, better than Wire, maybe better than Skype. Reliability of the connection, and the various 2ndary features that people take for granted, still need work.

Works for me now, too. Temporary hiccup, apparently.

Original site is inaccessible for me ... is this a temporary issue?

widespread use != massive popularity

Ask your average Windows user.