I’ve been on the waitlist for a while and am excited to get through. It may suck but it’s worth testing. The privacy issues aren’t ideal but it doesn’t seem like they sell your data.
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I’ve been on the waitlist for a while and am excited to get through. It may suck but it’s worth testing. The privacy issues aren’t ideal but it doesn’t seem like they sell your data.
Is there a reason behind this?
I wish I could but… youtube.
(yes ik about alternate frontends but I’m subscribed to so many people that importing the subscriptions would take forever)
I use https://converser.eu as it’s big enough that it’s fast but small enough it’s not at all centralized. The landing page is in french though so you’ll need a translating tool.
I’ve also heard good things about https://chat.mozilla.org but it was slow for me.
Stay away from https://matrix.org unless you like centralization.
As an author, what’s your opinion on piracy of books?
How does this compare with matrix?
No–they edited it out.
Just FYI vanillaOS is an awesome system to suggest to both new users and experienced ones. None of the snap BS but still based on Ubuntu. It also makes it really hard to mess up your system. Vanilla Gnome too. Check it out.
Can we refrain from using the R slur please?
Guy was just converted into a FOSS nerd. Give it a few months and he’ll own a thinkpad with a custom i3 rice and be saying “I use arch btw”.
Jokes aside, I think apple is a terrible company. Sure, their products are amazing but they’re grossly overpriced and not FOSS or compatible with anything else.
The iphone 14 pro max costs $464 to make and retails for $2000. That’s not innovation, that’s grifting. Besides, the main difference between the Iphone 11 and 14 is the price (no, the camera is not that much better, i don’t care what you say).
Apple also intentionally gatekeeps their products (Vender Lock-in) making the experience worse for everyone who doesn’t own Apple products. They could adopt the open standard that all other phones use for texting (MMS I think it’s called) but instead they use imessage to make your experience worse when texting people with Androids. This also makes it hard to switch to an Android even if it’s better. And don’t even get me started on the charger situation.
Also, they use privacy as a branding statement but we have no way to verify that claim. They could be selling all our data and be well within their rights. If they were open source we would be able to verify that claim.
I can’t really talk though because I own a (refurbished) Iphone. I do this because a) the messaging system and b) my whole family is in the apple ecosystem (with no way out) so I get benefits of our family plan like tons of storage.
All the niche communities. I’ve been here for a couple months now but boy is that what we need.
What a shame. Stupid fucking pedos.