

Congratulations! Looking forward to trying this :)
I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.
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Note: I’m moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I’ll share more info :)
Congratulations! Looking forward to trying this :)
This is the resource I go to when I need to check something, and it should be excellent for learning more on some privacy topics.
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/
After that you might need to go find another resource for the specific technical topics. They have a discussion section, so you can ask for recommendations there?
hey it looks like you posted a few times. Two of them have discussions already, but maybe you can delete this one?
For astronomy there is !astronomy@mander.xyz. The communities on mander.xyz are STEM focussed and usually well moderated.
You could also try
As for the instance, stay wherever you feel most comfortable. I have a few alts on other instances, including lemmy.world. You’re also free to move later if you decide to.
If it helps I am based in the UK.
You can also check out the instance / communities at
In case that link doesn’t load for some users: https://framapiaf.org/@debian
You might be better off looking for a community where the moderation optimizes for that kind of discussion (ex. Removing low effort comments, requiring citations, academic oriented, etc). It’s harder to find an entire instance that matches those points, but there should be a few communities like that
Then you can use the subscribed feed only, or block the communities you don’t like
I believe there is a way to swap the homescreen with a FOSS one, but I agree that people shouldn’t have to do that in the first place
It should be forked under a new name soon enough
For example, Mull is also by Divested Computing Group and this should be the new project for it
https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacynotincluded/categories/entertainment/
The Mozilla guide agrees
Apple and Nvidia Shield are better about it than Roku/Fire
I think this might be the self hosted guide?
https://github.com/AppFlowy-IO/AppFlowy-Cloud/blob/main/doc/DEPLOYMENT.md
(Swapped the link)
I should have linked those, thank you!
There are a few browser extensions that can detect RSS feeds, which can help when they’re not advertised openly
Past that, this add-on was decent:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/feedbroreader/
If you’re into self hosting:
It does help with it though
For profit platforms have more of an incentive to keep the bots going, for engagement reasons. Non profit managed ones should want to get rid of such bots?
Well, whatsapp has stories also, but I don’t see people using them. I don’t like to give my phone number to everybody. And it is very easy if someone has a profile, to look them up and send a follow request. That stuff you won’t find with signal stories.
That’s a good reason yea
Though, pixelfed lacking stories should be possible to overcome right, given the protocol. If two users can handshake, and the instances accept the handshake, then they should in theory be allowed to send each other stuff. Like, in other fediverse platforms you can also send private messages
The problem I think is that we can’t guarantee that the other federated instances will respect the private setting, or the risk that other instance admins might be snooping on the posts.
A proper E2E solution would be ideal
Part of the problem is that pixelfed feeds are public, and in order for private posts/feeds to work you’d need the other user to be on the same instance as you
Signal has stories, although I don’t see many people using them. If more people were on signal, it might get more use?
Interesting ok, I hope the donations take off because it felt like the team was spreading itself too thin working on all three things at once
Didn’t know about sup
Open source, modular, instant messenger. Coming soon! Made by @dansup (Proof: https://mastodon.social/@dansup/111493816842232424)
A big downside to fediverse messaging is that it isn’t secure, and so we’re warned when using it. Would anyone have more details on why we might use this over a more private messenger?
It would be nice to have a decent FOSS video editor on android
ImageToolbox is solid now on the image editing side, having something similar for videos would be excellent
For what it’s worth, there are a good number of younger users here but I don’t think people go around advertising it.
As for your question, you could try the more specific meme communities? For example
How does this compare to Bookwyrm, or say Trakt?