I think we just found our common ground. :)

On the bright side: The general public (and some governments) are beginning to notice the importance of privacy and data sovereignty, more people are seeking out systems with distributed designs, and tools that address modern needs using those designs are slowly getting less complicated to use.

I hope we can keep our governments from criminalizing them.

Magic Wormhole comes close. I don't think it 100% peer-to-peer since there's a coordination server, but that's not so different to most P2P programs on the internet, which need something like a STUN or TURN server (or port mapping) to get around NAT.

https://magic-wormhole.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole

Nit: vim is a visual editor. It has a text interface, but it's not a command line interface.

An example of a command line text editor would be sed.

Oh no, how did we use it for decades and were even able to talk to Google Chat users.

Your comment is rude and misleading at best.

The thing you're referring to was called Google Talk, introduced in 2005. XMPP was viable for the unguided public at that time mainly because Google Talk and Facebook Messenger were large public XMPP servers, with clients integrated as first class features in the world's largest social networking sites, supplementing the small independent servers to form a healthy ecosystem. This allowed anyone to easily discover the network, sign up to use it, and be confident that they and their contacts would remain reachable for more than a few years.

Google Talk was replaced in 2013 by Google Hangouts, bringing an end to their XMPP support. Facebook Messenger added XMPP support in 2010 and ended it in 2015. Jabber.org, which was the only significant independent host (but still relatively small), stopped offering new accounts in 2013. The healthy ecosystem vanished over a decade ago.

Also, the rich feature set being discussed here includes modern end-to-end encryption (OTR doesn't qualify), persistent message history with multi-device support, voice and video chat, and a variety of other things that were not supported by XMPP back then, if ever.

So no, you were not doing this with XMPP for decades.

You can get most of those features today if you have an XMPP server implementing a pile of specific XEPs on top of the base protocol, and if you and your contacts also use clients with the same extensions implemented just right. This might be great for a small group with a well-informed system admin, or for the tiny minority of people who might stumble into a service provider that makes it easy for them, but the vast majority of the unguided public are not going to navigate those waters successfully, and even those few who do will have no reasonable assurance that their accounts will last longer than summer vacation.

I miss Jabber's heyday, too, but to believe it can make a comeback is just wishful thinking. It doesn't have the support that would be required for that, and there's no sign that it ever will. That's why I don't recommend it outside of small groups.

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No thanks.

I'm a little surprised to see someone soliciting for those platforms on Lemmy, given that they are antithetical to the values that brought most of us here.

Currently the best self-hostable, private (encrypted) and federated communication platform is XMPP/Jabber

This is a very subjective opinion. I consider XMPP to be useful for small groups that have a knowledgeable admin to offer help, but a poor fit for the unguided public if a rich feature set and long-term accounts are important. YMMV.

And after trying it, if you want to see what alternative client apps have to offer, you can find them here.

I don’t think it’s ethical to emulate the current gen.

I guess you haven't noticed that the Switch is not current gen.

If the current gen supports the software, buy the game and play it on the current hardware.

I guess you live in a country where typical incomes can afford purchasing Nintendo games and hardware without giving up more important things, like food and shelter.

Promised in the same way that the publisher promised the developers a big bonus, only to cheat them out of it later?

the HDMI Forum (which manages the official specifications for HDMI standards) has officially blocked any open source implementation of HDMI 2.1.

It also claimed these websites had seen cumulative downloads of 3.2m in just three months this year - from 28th February and 28th May - resulting "in an estimated loss of $170m".

In other words:

• They assumed that every download was by someone who would otherwise have paid over 53 USD for it, which by itself is an absurd delusion.
• They described imaginary money that they never had in the first place as "losses", which is a plain lie. You can't lose something that you never had.

Given that both these blatant falsehoods match the propaganda that big media parasite corporations started pushing a few decades ago, it seems pretty clear who the taxpayer-funded FBI is working for.

The sad reality is that while there are a lot of great people on Lemmy, there are also some who use the platform to attack others, stir up conflict, or actively try to undermine the project. Admins are volunteers who deal with the latter group on a constant basis, this takes a mental toll. Please understand why our admins chose to step down, and be kind to the admins on whatever instance you decide to join.