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Is there a federated alternative to 4chan?
  • I'm fairly sure I've seen an NNTP based imageboard that distributed it's content through that protocol and different instances had overlap of boards. That's about the closest match to federated system you're going to find with this model I think. Interesting concept. Not something I'd want to interact with personally though.

  • What apps would you love to have open-source alternatives for?
  • Certainly not as powerful as common office suites, but https://cryptpad.fr/ is not only open-source but also has already running instance (and has end to end encryption for your documents)

    https://syncthing.net/ is a good general file synchronizer. Requires devices too be online simultaneously to sync, but gives you transport encryption with forward secrecy.

  • Thoughts on VPN providers?
  • For anonymous proxy (which is what you seem to mean instead of VPN) I just keep using Tor for almost everything. Sure, some services do block it - more than your usual commercial offering. But TBF that mostly saves me time from tying to deal with them.

  • Use WhatsApp without a smartphone?
  • It's been a year or two, but last time I tried it their app worked fine on x86 Android in qemu. Not the most efficient way to run it, but at least it's isolated from the rest of the system.

  • Fedi Garden to Instance Admins: "Block Threads to Remain Listed"
  • Slight difference is that Zuck has had control from the start, whereas other companies might have had "don't be evil" leadership that was… optimized away for financial reasons.

    Not that it really matters nowadays. Just an observation.

  • Finally got rid of telegram, congratulations to me
  • Honestly it was mostly a Discord competitor if anything. One with FOSS clients for desktop and Android.

    The private chat is baseline implementation just to tick a box rather than anything practically useful.

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    Will Lemmy sell users data to train external AI like Reddit did?
  • Re profiling, I don't think instances will bother doing that (unless they start running ads). However, they also don't prevent anyone from building that profile themselves from observable behavior. And creating such database might constitute original work by itself. Now, they don't get as fine-grained interactions as you would with tracking-infested sites. But they will get the most valuable ones such as active participation.

  • (Please see comments) Alternatives to Signal if they exit EU due to ending E2EE
  • I'm not convinced by Session's decision to remove forward secrecy. I don't care if it's malice or incompetence, they shouldn't be in business of encrypted messaging either way.

    And their lack of transparency on their share of underlying network and the associated costs for new entrants doesn't make them smell like a cryptoscam any less.

    My personal advice is avoid. You'll be far better off with simplex, or xmpp+omemo for something not paired with phone number.

  • Discord Alternatives?
  • It's been doing the exact opposite and implementing more targeted advertising after several previous monetization attempts (including a cryptocurrency integration) flopped.

    Similarly the feature set is increasingly locked behind "premium" paywall.

    It's headed in no good direction if you ask me.

  • Building an open share button for the distributed social web
  • I'm probably missing something, but wouldn't it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.

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