Luckily people have found a shortcut
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.
Elon Musk was caught on the street and beaten to death...
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 [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]), as well as [[email protected]](/c/[email protected]) 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 😁
I was just wondering how yogthos is doing
You can find good stardicts of just about every dictionary on the internet if you look hard enough
I'm just amazed by this. Can you point me to some of the more common places where one could start? I could really use some new dictionaries 😁
@mesamunefire The latest find, highly underrated, is @flwwhtrbt (also posting under @PerfectDark on [email protected]) posts about the latest gaming stuff on Linux and in general. Highly informative imo and not overwhelming with posts.
Then I get my memes from @nonfedimemes and @memes.pixelfed. I also liked @DarthPutinKGB, but it now it appears to have stopped posting.
There's also my page called @cheamaminerii where I post infrequent updates about the health condition of Romania's 1st president, Ion Iliescu, charged for crimes against humanity (currently mostly posting about the fact that he's alive - which is what trăiește means).
There's also @FoxNews which posts the latest news about foxes. Highly recommended if you want to stay up to date in this regard.
For serious news, some of the journalists I recommend following are @timkmak @kevinrothrock @w7voa @anneapplebaum plus other big publications, which have enabled federation via their Flipboard account, like @BBCNews or which they have an actual Mastodon presence like @theintercept @arstechnica or @Bellingcat
Other creators that I like are @silentbeauties (posting about vintage movies and actors), @Astro_benny (Italian NASA astronaut, posting about all things space) or @notjustbikes (yes, the real one).
Last but not least, there are some bots that reply to you with some various stuff if you tag them: