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[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 weeks ago

For what it's worth, it is now possible to delete your threads account without also deleting your instagram account.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Not to discredit your arguement but isn't Signal also centralised?

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 2 points 4 months ago

Regional pricing exists. The cheapest plan is $2 in some countries.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 1 points 4 months ago

Regional pricing exists. The cheapest plan is $2 in some countries.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago

There's also GoToSocial which is made to be lightweight from the get go.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 4 points 5 months ago

I already use proton on PC, I needed one for mobile as well hence Calyx caught my eye.

(ProtonVPN's free plan is limited to one device at a time, that's why)

 

I came across CalyxVPN while browsing through F-droid, it seems to be offered by the same people who make CalyxOS. I couldn't find much discourse about it online, is it reputable enough to use?

My use case would be to hide whatever I do online from my ISP (I'm not torrenting, just browsing).

And yes, I know free VPNs are untrustworthy in most cases but this seems to come from a somewhat privacy respecting background so I was curious.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 15 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, I made this post after reading that article. There is clearly a problem with how domains and their renewals are managed. I'm not sure what a solution would look like, though.

 

A lot of folks suggest getting your own domain name for having control over your online presence but the question that I have always had is what would happen to them when I die?

Wouldn't the domains eventually expire and anyone else would be able to register it and access my email attached to that domain? With that email, they can theoretically get into all my accounts which don't have 2FA on (a lot of the sites just don't have the option to turn on 2FA) via the 'Forgot my password' services?

Similarly, if I have a blog or website that I have poured my heart and soul into for my entire life, wouldn't that just go down forever when the domain expires? Maybe services like The Internet Archive would help in that regard but I don't know how many people are actively searching for an archived version of a website when they can't access it on it's actual domain.

I understand that after I die, all of this wouldn't by my concern and wouldn't matter but I still think about this a lot.

To the people who have their own domain, email and/or blogs, what are your thoughts on this?

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

I'm sorry if I sound naive but what's wrong with using a mobile?

I thought people use traditional music players like iPod and Tangara only because of their retro feel, is there something else to it?

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 11 points 6 months ago

Just FYI, in India the president (head of the state) is more or less a ceremonial figure. It's the prime minister (head of the government) that you're probably talking about.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

They aren't E2EE by default. You have to enable it manually.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 12 points 8 months ago (6 children)

They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.

[–] Star@sopuli.xyz 58 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they're giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).

 

All skiff users have received a mail in this regard and Skiff has also tweeted about the same.

 

Currently, I'm just using the default 'Drive PDF Viewer' on my Android devices, would love to switch to something FOSS and non-google. Any good recommendations?

If it's available on F-Droid, that would be preferable.

 

We can follow lemmy accounts from Mastodon but I was wondering if we can do it the other way round?

I tried searching the username of some Masodon accounts into the search bar on Lemmy and nothing came up but when I search up the username of any Lemmy account, they do show up.

So, I'm guessing it's not yet possible?

 

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