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petrescatraian

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  • 42 Free and Open Source Projects Receive Funding to Reclaim the Public Nature of the Internet

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  • Well, you can easily tell if an envelope has been tampered with. For email, on the other hand, it's more difficult for the average folk. And again, Gmail is also sharing information with the government (okay, it's mostly the US government, but still).

    Imo, we need more providers like Proton, Tuta, Mailbox dot org etc. and probably more education into how one could protect their data and so on.

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  • Having the government provide email as a public communication service sounds good in theory. However, this could also pose a privacy risk if your government turns rogue and authoritarian. If it is possible to also have this communication E2E encrypted in a way that is as frictionless as possible (no, PGP is not really that frictionless unless it's built in), it would be great. However, we all know what is the general take of governments regarding E2E encryption, so I think I'll pass this one.

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  • @Skullgrid yes, they are. I don't contradict you. But in their opinion it really is better to be a dictatorship than a democracy.

    The only solution is to just keep fighting for your values in every way possible, as I said, and show people that these are objectively better than what they crave for (or, if objectivity is not possible, subjectivity can help as well)

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  • @Mee it just seems like that. In reality, everything in the world has been just someone's interests - because that's how the world was built. In fact, good and evil are just subjective terms. What may be good for you, it might be bad for somebody else. Your evil might be someone else's good and vice-versa.

    I think you should think the things into more of what you care the most, what your values are, what is important for you overall. And then you'll see the bigger picture: people are just having different values than you, they think that the values you believe in are not theirs. And I am somewhat in the same situation as you - let me give you an example:

    Among the values I care the most are democracy, personal freedoms, the ability to voice out (politely) your own opinion; you'd think I am a normal person, that no sane person would be thinking otherwise. Well, what if I told you, you're wrong! There was a poll last year in my country where 40% of the people said they would agree with my country returning under a dictatorship. Forty freaking percent!!! This is mind-boggling, right? That's what I also think.

    What would be the solution to a problem like this be like? Well, you could join the crowd, that would be the most obvious, right? Be one with the majority, mindlessly agree on what they say, do what they do. But I bet you would never see your place in there. Instead, I think you should keep staying true to your own values and beliefs and look for people that share these. Speak to them, understand them yourself as well and who knows, maybe you can do something about it. 😁

    /my 2c

  • what are your news sources?

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  • @fuzzyfeeling too many of them tbh. I also gotta do some cleanup at some point:postimg.cc/7GXfY6Sn

    There's plenty more in my Feedly account, some duplicates, cannot catch them all. At this point, I returned to getting what's currently in the spotlight.

  • what are your news sources?

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  • @bigboismith You're probably referring to some sort of public broadcaster, right? That's actually quite a good source if the management is not politically controlled/infiltrated in any way by any political party

    @fuzzyfeeling

  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

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  • Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

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  • @thebustinator Guess it's the author is still working on it, polishing it out, but there's a start

  • Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

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  • Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

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    petrescatraian @libranet.de

    Somebody created a Facebook like UI for Friendica called Bookface (expand for pics&more info)

  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • I did not receive your response in time, that's why I edited my previous comment. Sorry about that.

    Imo, I'm more concerned about Facebook's data hoarding practices and its future moderation practices than whether it has a public feed or not. LinkedIn and VK (probably G+ either, can't remember) - other two social networks that are more similar to Facebook in UI - do not have publicly accessible feeds either on their home pages, yet they still managed to get plenty of users. Probably no longer still relevant, but diaspora is also featured as the 1st alternative to Facebook. Yet if you go to any diaspora server, say diaspora-fr.org/, there's no way to access a public feed either.

    Some Friendica servers (probably some Mastodon servers too) are also actively blocking their local feeds from unlogged users, so that's also an aspect to keep in mind.

    I understand that for some people (I simply don't care that much about this aspect, but I understand you do), the lack of a public feed might be an impediment, but I think it's way less harmful than other things that Meta does to its users.

    my 2c

  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • It is a Facebook alternative, after all. But now that you're speaking, I think it would work if a link to the community page would be visible straight from the login page. You can still see the public feed as of speaking, but you have to go to instance.address/community to see it.

    Edit: seems like this is not a universal issue with Friendica, but rather just something to add to the Frio theme which is the default for the majority of the instances. For example, where the Vier theme is used by default, there is a community button available: social.outsourcedmath.com/ is one example.

    Hopefully someone does a more modern theme that has this button too.

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  • I would have recommended you mine or venera.social. They're around 10 years old or something, so quite some time. But they've temporarily closed signups. nerdica.net and anonsys.net have also been around for quite some time, although the former had some problems last year and lost years of database. ouch.

    Then there's social.trom.tf, which has some of the most wonderful custom themes I've seen on Friendica, but their opinions on stuff are a bit weird for me...

    For the rest I don't know that much.

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  • Same as Instagram or Telegram. Really, stop nitpicking the name of FOSS projects excessively. I get that they're not the best, but they're not really a dealbreaker for most of the people outside the marketing departments.

    Otoh, what if we would all call it Friendi as well (just like we did with Insta? Or Fren?

  • Friendica Has Reached 2,646 Monthly Active Users

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  • It happens the same on Facebook, so that's not a problem for a Facebook alternative

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  • Yeah, Rednote is such a wonderful name tbh.

  • Open letter to Zuckerberg from Pixelfed creator Supernault

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  • He does post on it. Ever since his announcement, I made sure to dislike his every post.