Season 7 - Episode 3: Shanes, Great Bunch of Lads
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Discussion

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Shane's taking a sabatical 🏖️

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Matrix: Federation) is ✍️ a feature

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📱 Element Matrix app)

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📱 Telegram)

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Discord) offers a very granular user and room control 🎛️

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Mattermost) has 🔀 threads and channels

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Matrix spaces) are not as easily used as Discord's 🧩

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The Synapse) Matrix reference server 🐘🐍

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⚡ The nimbler Conduit) Matrix server

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Mozilla use) Matrix 🔥🦊💬

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FluffyChat) iOS Matrix app 🐰🍎💬

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Telegram is domiciled) in the UK and the Emirates 🏢 (via Wikipedia)

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Telegram is not opposed to making money) 💶

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Telegram's crypto effort was ⚾⬇️ killed) by the US Securities Commision (via Reuters)

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📲 Signal messenger app) is a viable alternative to Telegram

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Green bubble/blue bubble explained by Marques Brownlee on YouTube) 🔵🟢💬

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Facebook 📉 stumbles) (via The Verge)

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Facebook is finally dying 🪦 according to this YouTube video)

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Apple's privacy rules will cost Facebook 10 biiiiiiilion) 💰💰💰 (via CNBC)

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Facebook 💰💰💰 likely dropped 10 biiiiiiilion) on the Metaverse in 2021

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🎞️ Ready Player One)

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Second Life) 🎮

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📖 In Snow Crash, the Metaverse was an ad-ridden dystopia)

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The bone spaceship scene from 2001: A Space Odyssey) 🦍🦴🚀

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Apparently, you can still buy a discman on Amazon) 💿

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💊 Reportedly), social media is designed to be addictive (via BBC)

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VPS providers like Hetzner) provide Wordpress 🕸️

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