People want to be offended by everything these days. It may have started as a good thing to minimise abuse and discrimination, but by this point that target has been vastly overshot and has become an issue of abuse in itself.

I’m not here to do Signal’s marketing for them, especially since I never liked it in the first place (due to the phone number thing). They had a good thing going for being an acceptable alternative, and they fucked it up. Definitely not my problem.

https://getsession.org/

Yea it just prevents one from searching what’s going on, because web results are filled with this.

Guess nobody told youtu.be or the million of services on .to or .it…

Strawman, one of those big words people use when they can’t make a decent argument.

Would it be that difficult to have two versions of the app then? One without sms for the more security conscious and easily distracted people, and one with sms, that I could install on any grandma’s phone?

Difficulty of implementation was never an argument, only ideological ones, with which Signal fucked over so many people. Literally all of my Signal contacts have gone offline soon after they axed the sms support, and so I have no use for Signal at all.

So, mission accomplished I guess. Secure messaging has won- oh wait, everyone is back on WhatsApp.

By that logic tho, you can also accidentally open a different app and send an sms, because on Android all the apps need to look and behave basically exactly the same for some reason.

Maybe, but if I want to privately talk to randos from the internet, then using my phone number like with Signal is a no-go from the start. Threema is paid and only partially open source.

Session is fully decentralised and while you can think of crypto whatever, at least it gives people the incentive to run nodes, unlike Tor where the incentives are all over the place, or centralised messengers which are fully reliant on one entity.

Not a fan of giving my phone number to federate to every server.

Session is like Signal but decentralised (like Tor, not like Fedi) and without the phone no requirement. That sounds better to me.

Makes sense, thanks.

I’ve been wondering why everyone has a domain on their instance, even if it’s a single-user personal thingy.

Did we know before it’s sketchy?

Ok so I guess the old registrar were a bunch of twats, so the gov kicked them out and in the process potentially benefits from the US mil email thing.

All while doing the typical government thing of messing things up for everybody because they don’t know how anything works.

Am I right?

What’s going on with/in Mali anyway? When I search, all the results are just about the US military email fuckup.

Podcasts are already decentralised. You can use a podcasting app like AntennaPod (Android) and if you search for a podcast, it’ll look through several databases and feeds to find it. Afaik most podcast apps work this way, and there’s also a standard format to import/export subscriptions.

As for music, as other suggested - piracy, haha.

Nope, you don’t have to subscribe to any of them actually. Look, I’m not subbed to either nsq and I’m good.

Libertarianism looks great! Particl I’m still not sure about, but then I guess I’m not the target audience anyway, so I’ll leave it in your hands :p

On SW memes I had a survey, and one of the questions I asked was if people want more descriptive rules and stuff, and most said yes. There was also demand for the special days, and people were asking about the pending subscription issue… So it just gets more expanded.

I’m only on mobile too, so it’s a bit much for my taste too (I’m trying to be minimalist with this, e.g. not repeating server rules etc. which won’t stop anyone from being a twat anyway).

But the actual members seem happier with this, so that’s why it is that way.

As for links for related communities, I wanted it to be easier to tap the right one on a phone screen.

Numbered lists on Lemmy have the following problem:

1. You start with a list

Then you make a line break to add a paragraph to the first point, but it looks “outside” of the list

2. Now we’re in the list again

But I’ll see if there’s anything else I can trim…

Thanks for looking.

In my opinion, theism and sustainability have decent descriptions, albeit a little complicated (someone who e.g. isn’t a native English speaker may need a few takes).

Minimalism and libertarianism could use a paragraph to explain just some basic idea instead of a link outside. I mean, minimalism sounds kinda self-explanatory, but some may think it’s about the art style.

Particl just had me confused honestly. It sounds like another bitcoin alternative with a good stuffing of grand-sounding keywords, and a link to a PDF whitepaper isn’t helping. I don’t like downloading random PDF and hate it when web sites do that.

Well, you can look at my communities in return and tell me what you think. (I know formuladank needs a better desc too. That’s one I haven’t updated properly since launch, when I didn’t know if Lemmy will even take off at all.)

That avatar really isn’t cool for people with sensitivity to flashing images, please don’t do that.

I wouldn’t know what “OL Reign” is, maybe you could add what sport that is. Altho I guess “FC” kinda gives it away.

But sports team is something I have no interest in so I’m adding these to my huuuuuuge block list of everything sports-related. Don’t take it personally :p

Btw I’m also trying to get people to use the fanaticus.social instance that’s apparently dedicated to sports. Or the country instances.

I usually assume it’s an anime.

I’ve commented to a couple where e.g. there was a sticky of the mod asking what people want (but still no description), but sometimes I’m lazy and just want to browse :p

I think I do, I think “watches” designates what it is, and Galaxy is a well known branding… At least that’s my feeling, maybe someone has a different opinion.

I’m sorry, I wasn’t aware there’s a conservative party in our parliament, much less in power. My bad I guess? Or are you just proving my point about accusing someone of something random without knowing anything?

Sometimes it does feel pretty random to be honest. There are lots of cases where a political issue has become reversed as to which side is supposed to support it (support for unions in the US, as an example that comes to mind).

It’s also way too often the case that one side starts support for some issue, and the other side begins to vehemently oppose it, frankly for no good reason than just because they can’t be seen agreeing in public. This is really the main reason why I stopped giving a fuck about politics, as it’s really almost all about just who’s a top dog and not much else.

Nothing is stopping anyone from copying content already.

Legal issues - possibly, but then everything you write or do is federated already.

I guess that’s not wrong, but I can passionately care about some other matter where the status quo is borked, and I can choose to fight that, and not some other random thing you care about. That doesn’t make me an ass or something other.

It’s a really interesting thing how the so-called “left” and “right” have chosen to fight over a handful of random things, and just as randomly chose to support one or the other side of the argument.

Almost as if, I dunno, these things weren’t even all that divisive in the first place, but it just might be in someone’s interest for people to fight over and not notice potentially worse things that are going on.

It invokes any number of people from all around the spectrum to be an arse.

If you’re trying to be neutral or just don’t much care for some particular political issue (what’s political or not is an interesting question in itself, but nowadays anything is), you see just as much toxicity from all the ends of the spectrum.

I still can’t believe all the fights that were ensuing regarding wearing masks. But once something becomes a symbol…

I’d even argue the “left” is faster to call names and dump baseless accusations on anyone quite at random, to be honest.

I mean, just watch the downvotes on this comment from the “if you’re not with us, you’re a nazi” crowd.

I won’t be getting into it more in public. It’s just hard for me to leave posts like this alone.

You can try AnySoftKeyboard or FlorisBoard, but both are more experimental than OB the commercial products.

Idk I don’t use those.

I’ve seen the old memes about 500x in my feed these last 2 days. Not bad or annoying enough to block, eventually I caved and subbed.

Also, starwarsmemes #3 🤘

I’m not optimistic about Floris. A while ago they’ve made the decision to completely rewrite everything - a common occurrence among small-time FOSS projects, and almost always results in the project completely dying (or in a “better” case scenario, coming out of the ordeal as only a shell of its former self). Floris Board… Has not had any receipt in a while.

But fortunately with this fork of OB existing, there isn’t much need for it anymore. It would be nice to have a selection of modern FOSS keyboards, but, ah well.

I do now. I’ve been using OpenBoard for a few years after ditching the Google spyware keyboard, and recently I’ve learned about a fork of OB with gesture typing. It’s perfect if I have just one hand available.

Reddit - the shitty corporate Lemmy alternative

Huh. It feels a lot livelier than that.

How about making sports comms on fanaticus.social?

Will there also be biopunk?

Maybe it’s just that I’ve met too many i-users who are so full of themselves in this really annoying way, and often using owning/not owning Apple against other people.

Or when you look at all the obnoxious duckface / beach ball butt / Popeye biceps mirror selfie pics - 999/1000 are with iphones.

After a while… One just begins to be on guard.

Guess I’m… Phone-ist? Like that, but man I still think it’s more about me hating those kinds of people. Sorry that you get to be associated with them.

(Now to be frank, Apple isn’t helping it either for promoting the elitism. Remember the “I’m a Mac” ads? They want people to believe they’re better if they use Apple. And the bubble color is well documented too.)

Oh that makes sense.