Signal if possible, WhatsApp if not. I’m also trying out Session, but it’s still very much work-in-progress.

I switched from Chrome to Firefox about a year ago, because it’s just better for personal privacy and the freedom of the web as a whole. Brave would be my second choice, but FF lets you easily self-host a sync server for all your browsing data.

The Opera of today is not the same as the one from back in the days! The original company sold all their code and rights to a chinese consortium in 2016. Since then it’s basically a variant of chromium, with some propriatary features and tracking added. I don’t know the new owners, so I don’t trust them with my browsing data!

Here is a good resource for these kinds of questions: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/

This is suspicion on the level of “you can’t be sure reality didn’t just pop into existence 10 seconds ago”. You can never be 100% sure of what others are doing on their hardware, or of anything really, especially if other people are involved. Your chat partners could leak all your chats and metadata for all you know!

What we do know is that Signal is operated by a non-profit foundation, their client and protocol are open source and considered the gold standard for privacy by pretty much every expert on the subject, they had multiple independent audits and a very good track record, they were subpoenaed and couldn’t comply because they didn’t have the requested data. That’s about as good as you can get.

Depends on the level of technology we are using. If we’re zapping around from one habitable planet or interesting space phenomenon to another star trek style then absolutely yes! But a hard no with our current level of technology. I like to spend my time in an environment that’s actually somewhat friendly to life.

We could also just delete stuff after some time. Nobody really needs the 1000th repost of a meme from 20 years ago.

I blocked a handful of people who posted something every few minutes.

Also depends how the other clock is broken, if we’re this picky about it.

Here is an in-depth technical explaination video.

Also, appart from the obvious restrictions, businesses can structure their prices however they like.

I won’t buy Apple hardware as long as they keep being absolute dicks in the tech and app world. It’s a shame really, because they build awesome devices, but I would feel bad everytime I use them.

Also they are much more restricted in many aspects (e.g. sideloading!), so it would be a downgrade for me.

Imo admins should not allow the lockdown of a community on one instance in favor of the one on another. It’s fine if the original mod wants to switch, but then just get someone else to mod the community or close it down until someone decides to claim it again.

No you don’t. Federation means you can subscribe and post in a community on one instance with the account from another instance.

My server is a DiskStation, so I use HyperBackup to do an encrypted backup of the important data to their Synology C2 service every night.

The thing is, people might not know that they have to look for the Docker setup. Now if they search for “Lemmy on Synology NAS” they land on this guide, telling them to use Docker.

I think federating with an instance that actually wants federation to die (have a monopoly) is a very bad idea. Meta would use its leverage to actively undermine and harm the Fediverse, because it’s not in their interest to split the userbase between multiple servers they don’t own. Imo they only want to use it to bootstrap their own service, after that they’ll do anything to control as much of the users and content as possible. That’s the complete opposite of what the Fediverse is supposed to be!

Ever heard of the phrase “democracy without democrats”? That would be Meta in the Fediverse.

Same. Having all their custom software available and just one click away is amazing, and with Docker you can install everything else just like a regular server. It’s the best of both worlds imo.

If you don’t have any restrictions (limited subdomains, service only works on the server root etc.) then it’s really just a personal preference. I usually try paths first, and switch to subdomains if that doesn’t work.