Elon: “and I took that personally…”

lol, as one does

Matrix and Xmpp are good for that sort of thing. Maybe there’s a way to export your notes.

I suggest Matrix/Xmpp over any of it, but good luck getting anyone’s lazy friends to register to use anything. Signal and similar messengers have easier onboarding.

Signal: “I’m right over here, guys! Just click on me, install me, tell your friends. Hellooo!”

I just don’t like the model of it. Quick, jabby posts without much banter, and most of the news here makes it there anywyay.

I got that disroot joint, homie. My googs is only temporary while I slowly migrate the sites I have it registered to.

reaches the 200,001th bend

snap

Damnit!

That idea go any further on the something other than “get shot and dragged into a van”?

It’s America’s concentration camp for undesirables.

For me? It’s Qwant and <INSERT FIREFOX FORK>.

I degoogled for the first time two days ago aaaaand, it’s actually way easier than I expected and actually, dare I say… fun?

Fun in that I have new apps to try, all over the place. I spent that whole evening combing f-droid for everything I need and got it all sorted out.

SMS? Backed up

Contacts? Backed up

Photos? Syncthing’d

Passwords? I’m a card carrying Keepass user.

Music? Pulled down my streaming service from Aurora and it just works.

Email? Thunderbird’d’d

Cloud? Mini PC’d and NFS’d

Google? Gone and not missed.

…they need encryption backdoors? I was under the impression 99% of mainstream social media sites would willingly give sensitive information up for free without any hassle.

You’re lucky they’re selling it to you at all.

Time to cut it up into 4-6 different companies that will all collude together anyway.

“Normal man” gets a new phone

accepts 6 agreements from 6 split companies

Same result, different road.

Don’t connect it at all and just use an Android TV box or dongle.

Don’t connect a computer monitor to the internet?..

Also put the OS into perspective. The specs might not do for Android normally but might be just fine functionally, for Linux.

We just shouldn’t consider either gender’s interests as stereotypes. Also, if a community becomes one or the other “centric”, then on some level, it’s exclusionary.