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.
I think they do provide torrents for the stuff they have available to download already. So we know what to do *wink*!
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.
*sigh* I was woried
Jokes aside, I am quite afraid though.
Damn, only the 2nd? There’s room for improvement /s
@jagged_circle You don’t install a Bluesky instance, rather you host your own PDS, or your own web client, or the feed part. It’s all a mess and the latter has very high system requirements for one to self-host from what I understood. Basically, it’s impossible if you’re not a company with the willing and the money to do it.
If decentralization actually happens on Bluesky, it will be more confusing for the average person than with something like Mastodon.
@remington Gee, I wonder which nazi politician is on that list again. Place your bids before you dig in! 😁
@PerfectDark Nonsense is my cup of tea when I get bored, so it’s a perfect fit for me, haha.
Friendica is also cool, do check it out when you can. Once you’ll get the hang of it, you’ll love it 😁
@PerfectDark This is a fantastic series of posts. Highly informative and really fun to read and follow through. Your Mastodon also seems like a hidden gem, with lots of cool stuff. Just gave you a follow from Friendica 😁
Keep it up! 👍
Elon Musk was caught on the street and beaten to death…
<details class=“spoiler”><summary>Reveal/hide</summary>…In Minecraft</details>
@remington All I hope for the world after this is to get its shit together and form some world trade system with as little US as possible in it (no offense to you or anyone living in the US); or that the next presidents will realize what shitshow this makes
Friendica has federated with Lemmy since… the very first time Lemmy enabled AP federation I guess? lol, idk. I just got very happy that I can also replace Reddit with Friendica, not just Facebook. Sadly, I figured out the hard way about .ml and the only alternative to .ml was beehaw, lol.
Back then .world didn’t even exist, lol.
Anyway, yes, hello from Friendica. It’s not so active indeed, because there are not so many people, but as it got some attention from Ruud (the admin of both lemmy.world and mastodon.world) there’s been an uptick as of late.
Sadly, the situation of Friendica as an alternative to Facebook is really disproportionate, imo, as this is a hobby project made by some enthusiasts that aren’t even organized as a juridical entity (unlike Mastodon for example) vs. a multibillion-dollar company that owns the biggest social network on the planet.
Lemmy is also in a somewhat similar situation, but Reddit is not that big, though.
Being the oldest still actively developed Fediverse project does give it an advantage, though.
@cm0002 My Friendica node did the heavy lifting for a while, blocking both .ml, lemmygrad as well if I’m not mistaken - although sadly .world and even lemmy.ca too - back in the day. The issue? Lemmy was just sending way too many activities (upvotes - generated as likes, downvotes, comments etc.) and was generaly overwhelming the server.
They have since reverted the block, but I got a hefty selection of communities spread across multiple servers. I followed !linuxgaming@level-up.zone, as well as !linux4noobs@programming.dev for example - as they are on more dedicated servers, rather than general purpose ones. Sadly, the former did not take off the way I expected it to 😁
@coldsideofyourpillow No worries, thank you!
for Windows 10
Thank God. I was afraid because I use OneNote for work.
I was just wondering how yogthos is doing
@ForgottenFlux such a great feature. Will definitely use it next time I’m bombing some Houthi rebels.
It was unreliable on my potato computer and with the speeds of back then for me, but I remember that pretty much all of my friends used it. I had to use my mum’s computer to join in lol.