I have been for years and haven’t regretted it. Run my own micro-blog with go to social, tilvids is an excellent peertube, beehaw for lemmy, and matrix is the only option when talking to family imo.

I’ve never heard of yacy.net but I will check it out. Thank you for the info!

While I think she’s missed too much, she’s quite old, and I think she should be replaced (though I’m not in her area so this is a moot point really), did anyone here actually watch the video?

This is a confusion in procedure and happens all the time.

Here is the video, go to 53:40 approximately:

https://www.appropriations.senate.gov/hearings/full-committee-markup-of-fiscal-year-2024-defense-interior-and-environment-labor-health-and-human-services-education-and-homeland-security-appropriations-acts

Use tech and services outside the big tech. Just Fedi over standard social. Use Peertube instead of Youtube.

Run Firefox.

Set up your own servers for yourself or start a community. Matrix, Mastodon, Lemmy, etc.

Run SearXNG as your search or help others by hosting.

If you can work of free and open source code that helps decentralize and give the power back to the people or create something new. Even if you can code, learning a project and helping others with it or helping create docs, etc.

Spread the word, but don’t be annoying. Help less technical folks get decentralized.

It’s very difficult and can be disheartening, but you don’t have to cold turkey all of it. Each drip in the bucket helps until we’re all united and become a tidal wave.

When all the power is centralized that’s when those central players think they can do whatever they want.

Sadly this. I yelled at MIL when Roe was overturned and a 10 year old made headline news. Her response was “BUT THE MEXICANS!”. They literally don’t give a flying fuck about anyone but themselves and blaming absolutely EVERYONE else.

Mother-in-law works at one. Under educated, under paid, not enough help, everyone is forced to go there and sees it as a watse of their time so the “guv’ment” can “steal” your hard earned money. At least in thd US.

Actually just bought a bunch of different impossible meats. The chicken nuggets are GREAT. Absolutely buying more of those, I don’t care if they’re a buck more for a bit less. They’re so good.

The steak tips, wife couldn’t eat them. She doesn’t like fatty meat and they REALLY had the consistency of fatty steak tips. I’d eat them, but meh.

Had an impossible burger the other day at a restaurant and it was REALLY good as well. I had one waaaaaaaaaaay back when they started at one of the fast food places and it was just like chalky. This was REALLY good. Probably going to have that when I want a burger and they have that as an option.

I am NOT a vegan or vegetarian or any of that. I just think if I can do this little thing to get away from meat, maybe it’ll help. The fact it tastes quite good is a win.

You know that all western countries aren’t the same right? Like how lots have universal healthcare, better social protections, GDPR, etc right?

I feel awful for anyone in this situation that feels they have no other choice.

I’m not a doctor, nor do I have any medical background, but sacrificing a healthy life for something that isn’t doesn’t make logical sense to me, but again I’m in the US, fighting in the US, and posting in the US NEWS. Not other western countries.

I also find it suspect you lump in all western countries as if that’s easily defined and the laws are easily molded together as if they’re all under 1 law structure. Even in the States alone that’s not feasible.

And did I say this was due to Roe overturned? If you don’t think we’ll see more more stories like this, then I wish I lived in your world.

Should be a cautionary tale to protect your data. Especially when it comes to your health information thrown over channels you think are “private”.

Finger pointing! That is definitely something a politician excels at.

Don’t worry it has 0 chance of passing.

Not sure how I move it, but I’ll keep that in mind for next post. Thank you for the recommendation.

Nope

Fedora and Debian Linux.

I’ve been around long enough to see many projects be extinguished.

To your first point, these companies essentially have infinite money compared to you, me, everyone combined on Mastodon. They can and will figure out a way to track you across servers and they will figure out how to exploit that. Cookies weren’t supposed to be used for tracking they way they are, but the money hoarders figured out how to exploit them. Browser fingerprinting wasn’t a thing, but it can now be used to track you. How you type and how you speak online can be used to ID you.

If you think that Facebook is willing to share anything, I just don’t agree. Facebook will create Threads, they’ll put it on the Fediverse, they’ll align, then eventually they’ll start building features that Mastodon, Lemmy, etc refuse to or literally can’t or won’t have the time to do, and then they’ll start selling how they’re so much better and you should come join them, or they’ll say they’re more secure, or they’ll just smear the others. People will flock to the new and better, because hey it’s still on the Fediverse and open, eventually they’ll close it off and strangle the life out of the Fediverse. I’ll still be on the Fediverse, but these platforms are all about content. If people stop showing up, they can still exist, but they’re basically useless. It’s happened before, it’ll happen again.

• Jellyfin - Media streaming type app - basically use it for movies/shows and pictures.
• Joplin - Note taking app
• Syncthing - Sync for phones to PC for backing up pictures
• Miniflux - RSS reader
• Minetest - FOSS Minecraft voxel engine
• Veloren - FOSS Cubeworld game written in Rust
• GoToSocial - Microblogging server - aka Twitter/Mastodon
• Semaphore - Frontend for GoToSocial
• SearXNG - Search engine
• Conduit - Matrix server - chat
• Libremdb - IMBD frontend
• Invidious - Youtube frontend
• Nitter - Twitter frontend
• Libreddit - Reddit frontend
• Rimgo - Imgur frontend
• Proxitok - TikTok frontend

Failed to get working:

• Mobilizon - FB groups type alternative
• Peertube - YT alternative on the Fediverse
• Lemmy - Tried for a day and just couldn’t get it working. Found out there are issues with Rocky Linux and Lemmy that broke about two months ago but no further work was done it. I’ll try again someday.