WilfordGrimley

joined 2 years ago
[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 9 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Check out aether.

I really wanted this to be as popular as Lemmy, but it never caught on in a big way.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

XMPP is a tried and tested e2ee standard.

There is mention of e2ee voice and video chat on the site.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If the Fed Libs want my vote back, they'll have to make good on their promise of electoral reform with the help of the NDP or Bloc before a confidence vote.

Only way to install it with support for port forwarding on Fedora Atomic spins.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 16 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (8 children)

Add the rpm from protons website then rpm-ostree install package name.

This is one of the situations where layering packages is appropriate.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Sir, this is a Wendy's.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Signal Private Messenger is free open source, works on everything. Your grandma could use this.

I have slowly migrated all of my friends and family to this over the last few years.

All of the big 'encrypted' messengers like WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger use the Signal Protocol under the hood but insert their own shady business and tracking defeating a lot of the purpose.

There are other perhaps more anonymous options like SimpleX or XMRchat but they are not practical nor needed for most threat models.

Matrix is not quite mature enough but is a better option than discord for gaming communities.

Signal everyday. I would not recommend Telegram. DYOR.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 29 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My APAP machine has a sim card and unless I am careful to not disable airplane mode every time I start it up, it will send all of my health data to company that I have signed no agreement with.

I explicitly declined to agree to the privacy policy of the company that sold it to me.

If I find my data in a breach, lawyers will be involved.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 3 points 2 months ago

For anyone struggling to parse the graph as I was: look at the red bars below the photos. The photos are irrelevant from the data.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 3 points 2 months ago

I picked up Persona 5 Royale during the sale for 30 bucks.

I was a huge fan of P4G on the PSVita.

P5R is so stylish and it does such a great job of speeding up so much of tedium by allowing fast travel to most places.

Everything feels so snappy, the soundtrack is killer, the gameplay is fun. Runs like a dream on the OLEDeck. I've been enjoying taking it slow and getting to know the characters. Just finished the first palace.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 6 points 2 months ago

That's how aether works kind of.

It's P2P/decentralised rather than federated.

Anyone can make a community. With enough participation in a community one can become a mod. Mods can be impeached by vote of active participants.

Anyone can see nod actions and anyone can decide to disable the actions of any mod.

I love the system, I was active there before moving to Lemmy. I wish it had taken off/absorbed some of the Reddit fallout rather than Lemmy.

AFAIK it is not maintained or at least updated much less frequently than Lemmy/ActivityPub.

[–] WilfordGrimley@linux.community 2 points 3 months ago

I've been really satisfied with Alterna in Ontario for the last decade.

 

Aether is a reddit alternative not dissimilar to Lemmy in that it is distributed and open source.

Some advantages to Aether over Lemmy are:

It is entirely decentralized rather than federated giving it superior censorship resistance and smooth horizontal scalability. Each user on the Aether network acts as a node operator allowing other users to connect and view the communities that they subscribe to.

Moderators within each community are elected by, are impeachable by, and their decisions can be individually ignored by the users of each community. All mod actions are public information and, as mentioned, each mod action or moderator can be ignored by each user. This maximizes the accountability of the network and greatly reduces the chances of censorship.

The biggest flaw with Aether is that it is not currently maintained (to my knowledge). With such a massive migration of users to Lemmy and the Fediverse as large, I would love to see an increased interest in decentralized solutions like Aether.

Would it be technically feasible for Aether to join the fediverse through modified Lemmy instances? If so it could act as a silver bullet to enable horizontal scalability of the network at large.

I welcome any discussion on the topic.

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