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A few of them even are in your area.

Pretty fuckin' cool if you ask me.

Even when it was up, I never managed to get reliable read state from gpodder, possibly because I have paid podcast that cannot be downloaded easily. If you figure out a good way to sync the podcast list and read state between antennapod and other apps, please share it here!

My workaround so far is to only use antennapod which is actually fine, I can use bluetooth or a jack to use my phone as the podcast device in all situations where I actually want podcasts... but it'd be nice to just not use my phone at all when I'm home. ;-)

OK, then it sounds like you need to work this out with Monal devs. Bug reports are usually appreciated by devs, especially if you manage to work out exactly when and how it happens…

In my experience, Monal has been working great (except when siskin used the account before, leading to misconfiguration of some OMEMO-related stuff).

Did they use siskin before?

Matrix tries to kill XMPP but the reality is that if you want to self-host, XMPP is much less of a hassle. Also, Matrix is an open standard as in "pay big money to participate in the openness". https://matrix.org/blog/2022/12/01/funding-matrix-via-the-matrix-org-foundation/

Membership comes at various levels, each with different rewards:

Individual memberships (i.e. today’s Patreon supporters):
    Ability to vote in the appointment of up to 2 ‘community representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    Name on the Matrix.org website
Silver member: between £2,000 and £80,000 per year, depending on organisation size
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 2 ‘Silver representative’ to the Foundation's governing board
    Supporter logo on the front page of the new Matrix.org website
Gold member: £200,000 / year, adds:
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 3 ‘Gold representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    Press release announcing the sponsorship
    1 original post on the Matrix.org blog per year
    Participation in the internal Spec Core Team room
    Larger logo on the front page of Matrix.org
Platinum member: £500,000 / year, adds:
    Ability to vote on the appointment of up to 5 ‘platinum representatives’ to the Foundation's governing board.
    1 sponsored Matrix Live episode per year
    Largest logo on the front page of Matrix.org

Interesting. I tried to use mobilizon which I think is activitypub-based but has somehow similar goals as Karrot. Karrot looks a bit lighter/snappier to use, which is good (but TBF it's been a while since I haven't given Mobilizon a try, maybe it got better since last time I tried).

(I'm the maintainer) I do use the messenger bridge and it works for me, without disconnection issues.

But what is dead may never die!

Nah, because it's like no text for 30 secs, then "3 lines per second" (faster than you can read), then more or less synced, then again too slow/too fast. That teletext explanation someone else gave is more plausible. I cannot believe that the original are that bad, so my guess is that the way they're ripped has issues.

Yes, it's totally fantastic, and I'm not biased at all when I talk about it. xD

It does support a crazy amount of networks (it uses libpurple which is the lib of pidgin), unfortunately it lacks modern features and even groups don't work that well. I actually started to work on slidge because I was fed up with spectrum2's limitations and realised that spectrum2's maintainer think, like many others, that XMPP is dead...