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Graber is "optimistic about human potential, even though I'm realistic about human nature." When Bluesky launched last year, it filled a gap that was desperately needed by people who were looking for alternatives to X, as it seemed like the ship formerly known as Twitter was possibly sinking. (Against all odds, it hasn't yet.)

Bluesky wasn't as confusing as Mastodon and wasn't owned by Meta like Threads. Bluesky looks and feels much like Old Twitter.

There was only one snag: It was available as a beta launch, only with an invite code, which was initially so hard to obtain that even Joe Biden couldn't get one. Starting Tuesday, Bluesky is finally out of "beta" and will be open to anyone — no codes needed.

Like Mastodon and Threads, Bluesky is an experiment in a new, "decentralized" way of running a social app, where users can create their own communities and moderation rules. (Bluesky also has its own moderation team.)

Jack Dorsey was involved in creating Bluesky while he was still at Twitter and now sits on its board. It's organized as a public benefit corporation.

Ultimately, it may not be a winner-takes-all competition between these X alternatives; the new approach to social may be to exist happily in smaller pockets without needing massive scale to survive. (Although Meta certainly would love to win the battle with Threads.)

More here - https://www.businessinsider.nl/bluesky-is-finally-open-to-everyone-but-will-anyone-come-we-ask-its-ceo/

These days I searched and try to understand more about Mastodon alternatives, and see Pleroma and Misskey (and his forks) are more lightweight than Mastodon, and saw some people says Mastodon has some security vulnerabilities.

However, I have encountered some difficulties in understanding some things. Some instances block other instances. Some says you can only speak in English. Others seem private and I don't understand if I can see content from other platforms. Etc, etc…I know are differents instances rules and fully respect that, but on other point of view, dont understand very well which I can choose to see all content from all platforms.

Now, I would like to use one of these platforms to watch content and be able to speak in English, as well as speaking in my mother tongue. But I have always backed away because it has been difficult to understand some things.

Basically, I would like to know which is the best platform to interact with, one that has the minimum privacy and security rules, where I can see other instances of other platforms (be it Mastodon, Pleroma, etc., etc.), and where I can speak in my mother tongue. At this point, I'm little confused, to be honest.

My favorite content is sport, music and technology, but I'm also afraid of entering an instance that isn't suited to this.

If you can help me, I would appreciate it.

Do you know any application that blocks numbers outside my country? So that my phone only receives calls from numbers in my country.

At least in my country, exist a new fraud scheme in which people call me from different countries, from Europe and Africa. This has been quite annoying. And Im receiving these type of calls atleast 1 time per day.

I only find apps that say whether or not the number is fraudulent, but I don't find apps that actually block calls from numbers outside from my country. If you know some app, share it please. Thank you !

This thread is ONLY to talk about Weather/Meteo apps, Store apps (Like F-droid or AuroraStore) and FOSS apps about social media and related stuff, like youtube or Fediverse (Mastodon, Lemmy, etc..) apps.

For example, Newpipe is related to YouTube and a good FOSS app to watch videos.

Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

Discussion about Contacts, SMS and Dialers app is here.

Discussion about Calculators, Cameras and Calendars apps is here.

Discussion about Manager files, Recorders, Galleries and Video editors apps is here.

Discussion about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players apps is here

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Arthur Cabral , Benfica striker, scores a beautiful goal today against Estrela Amadora.

Goal video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qImusHNWPgI&t=3

https://streamion.me/watch/estrela-amadora-1-1-benfica-arthur-cabral-44_S6XLBCEpPqIBdM8.html

This thread is ONLY to talk about Keyboards, Notes, Maps and Music Players. I add video Music Players because probably some people want to know about good FOSS alternatives.

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Please, consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads. Your opinions are really important to build final megathread. You can upvote or downvote posts so that comments gain strength and agreement between the community.

Don't get me wrong, and the question is completely genuine.

One of the things I miss - albeit a little - about Twitter was the learning I was able to do on certain topics, for free.

Obviously I had to really, really filter what I wanted to see on Twitter, to be able to read interesting things and learn some things regarding different topics - like football, music, etc...

While Lemmy, in my opinion, is an excellent and better alternative to reddit and WriteFreely seems like a viable and best alternative to blogger/medium, I would like to know if in your opinion, places like Mastodon or Pleroma are, in fact, an alternative to twitter. I would like to know your opinion.

I confess that in this aspect I miss Twitter a bit, because I could see content from people trained and studies in topics I wanted to read, but I don't know what the content is like, in general, on Mastodon, Pleroma, etc...

Taking into account is Twitter is a mass social network, will it be difficult to find this type of thing on Mastodon, Pleroma, etc?

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Please, still consider share your ideas and thoughts about apps on previous threads.

If you want to talk about Contacts, SMS and Dialer apps, is here.

If you want to talk about Calculator, Camera and Calendar apps, is here.

Your opinions are very important and you can continue share your ideas about these apps.

This thread is ONLY to talk about Manager Files, Recorders, Gallerys and video editors. I add video editor because some gallerys don't have a editor incorporated.

EDIT:

In one of the comments I posted on this thread,, Exodus and Libchecker gave me trackers about Material Files app . I download the app from F-Droid or Github, but @[email protected] alert me this app, after all, doesnt have trackers from F-Droid. Dont know why this happened to me, and dont know if it was a bug or something related, taking into account that apps gave me trackers.

I appreciate his comment and I want to say sorry to everyone. If someone can talk more about it and share experiences with Material Files, I appreciate a lot.

Olá amigos brasileiros. Sou português mas já vi que as vossas instâncias são as mais activas no que toca à língua portuguesa. Não sei se este é o sitio mais correcto para postar, mas cá vai...

Reparei que há instâncias como a Bolha e o ayom que têm instâncias no Writefreely. Eu queria voltar a escrever, e já usei sites como o Medium e o blogger, mas como estou mais virado para a privacidade e projectos de open-source, queria saber se me podiam ajudar a tirar algumas dúvidas.

Vocês estão abertos a um português? Ou só aceitam pessoal brasileiro? O Writefreely dá para colocar imagens e videos?

Qualquer dica que me possam dar agradeço imenso. Um abraço para todos!

This thread is ONLY to talk about Calculator, Camera and Calendar FOSS apps and too share your best ones and thoughts.

Probably I will do an edit on the lists I made about apps to talk, because I forgot to add some options when I build in my mind the future threads.

If you want to talk about Contacts, SMS and Dialer FOSS apps, is here.

As I said, I will read (and read it) all comments in all threads to build the final megathread. (Sorry for not reply all comments. even though I read everything).

Your opinions about it are CRUCIAL and FUNDAMENTAL, because your opinions is the main-base to build the megathread.

Have a nice day for everyone. (and sorry about my english, I hope everyone can understand me)

As title says, I can help the devs of lemmy apps to translate to portuguese (from Portugal). Brazil have much, MUCH more population than us and we have some differents things on language. Im saying this for your knowledge and we (portuguese or brazilians) have some things from our homeland language that sometimes we dont get it.

You can send me a mp if you want.

After read this thread, I have an idea. Why not build a megathread with the best and most reliable FOSS apps too help someone who want to join on the bright side of open source?

I want to know if you agree with that. And if you agree, I will create one thread per week to discuss the best options to use on android. Dont know nothing about iPhone, so, if you want contribute, lets go, say what you feel.

But, this require your help. Help from all communities. We (because this is not from me, this is from us) need to share thoughts, ideas and all things you want to say. Dont be shy. Upvote the comments you like and agree; disagree and tell why you disagree. This is will be different from others threads because this need a proper user opinion, and your opinions will be VERY important to build this. In short, your opinions and thoughts will be the fundamental source to build this.

I will read ALL comments to build this. Even if this has a million comments, I'm going to waste time reading it. Whatever it takes.

If you need help, use Exodus site too see if any app has trackers.

(Apps from Simple Mobile Tools will not be accpeted, because they was bought from a shady guy)

I'm going to divide this by threads, as I said.. After one week, I will open the second thread. This first topic will be to discuss:

#1 - Contacts, SMS and Dialer

>The next ones will be

For now, this is my suggestions for this part one. Only on final (megathread) this is will be matters.