As a migrant in Portugal I agree with your concerns, but on the other hand I am happy that in my municipality (and the surrounding ones) Chega did quite badly and basically only a few idiots voted for them. Small wins and all that 🤷
Unless you have experience with ethernet equipment and such it is probably better to start with some hosted service of an open-source app like Nextcloud or Immich or (slightly more advanced) a VPS somewhere. Doing it immediately from home with your own server has a steep learning curve.
They are all above 60, so presumably they expect to be dead by then.
Well, that should make it easy for Macron to finally appoint a leftist PM according to the clearly expressed voter preference, right? Right?
Come on, you can do better than repeating these false talking points.
Most immigrants are not on welfare, the exception being asylum seekers that are legally prohibited from working, so they have no other choice.
But that is only a small minority and most immigrants pay way more into the social system then they will ever get out of it.
And "illegal" immigrants are certainly not on welfare 🙄
Needs Lemmy support 🤷
My friend, the AfD wants to "remigrate" immigrants that are so well integrated that they have German citizenship 🙄
The reverse, i.e. getting outage notifications and so on via xmpp is quite common.
I can't really think of any usecase to control self-hosted apps from a messenger, but sure, technically you could write such a bot quite easily.
XMPP is truly decentralized with no single point that collects this kind of data. There have been some attempts over the years, but they always failed to capture more than a fraction of the network. A recent one is more artistic in nature, probably realizing the futility of it.
The popular Conversations app has sold 100k+ units on the PlayStore, but since you can also legally get it for free, that is probably only part of the actual users.
Please don't recommend jabber.org, it is super outdated and lacks almost all modern features.
What do you mean with bots in this context?
I mean, XMPP is great, but if you are only interested in private chats with your family in a virtual LAN then it (and Matrix) is probably overkill and a bit of a hassle to configure without a public domain (as that is expected for federation).
Maybe a Nextcloud Talk or a Jitsi Meet instance would be simpler?