Colin the MathmoColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz

Oct 22, 2026, 12:08 PM

@kobold OK, so you meant that "Nextcloud Talk" might not be worth the effort. Thank you.

You can stop reading now if you like, but for anyone who might be interested, I'm going to explain my confusion.

You said:

"I have a Nextcloud Talk sitting idle here. Usually if we need something we mostly default to Signal as well. It[0] might just not be worth it."

When you use "it[0]" here, the most recent thing you've referred to is Signal. To me, the word "it" usually references the most recent thing mentioned.

But the semantics are at odds with that, because (as you say) you have mentioned that "Nextcloud Talk" is sitting idle ... so perhaps you meant that.

It genuinely wasn't clear to me, and that's why I asked. I know that different people end up with different defaults in how they interpret these things ... a company I was consulting with once nearly made a multi-million pound mistake for exactly this reason.

Written communication can be hard.

CC: @neil

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