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   Daniel Supernault (dansup@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:17:26 JST Daniel Supernault

   Meta seems cooked, but I’m glad we have open and federated alternatives!

   Instagram -> https://pixelfed.org

   Reels -> https://loops.video + https://vidzy.codeberg.page

   Facebook -> https://hubzilla.org

   Spread the word!

   #deleteMeta

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     limot (limot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:22:06 JST limot

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     @dansup They are talking about Free Speech, but I got banned on Threads for supposedly violating their community standards, after making ONE comment.

     Earlier, I had gotten banned on Instagram for having done nothing at all - created the account, never used it, no single post, got email about violating community standards.

     My feeling was, these people are insane.

     Admittedly, my one comment on Threads was controversial, but it wasn't being rude to anybody. Free Speech is about controversies.

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     Eugenus Optimus 🇺🇦 (ujeenator@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:22:51 JST Eugenus Optimus 🇺🇦

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     @dansup Do you know of any good tutorial videos that explain what the Fediverse and Mastodon are?

     I’m starting to advocate for the Fediverse among my friends and would love a resource to share with them

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     EverlastingOS (everlastingos@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 04:24:38 JST EverlastingOS

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     @dansup you should do a upgraded hubzilla UI, so it looks modern like pixelfed

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     cos (cos@sauna.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 05:43:56 JST cos

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     @dansup please don't promote Signal here. It's centralized and not really open source. Matrix is what you are looking for.

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     Carl S. Gutekunst (alameth@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 06:11:52 JST Carl S. Gutekunst

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     @dansup I dunno about equating Instagram with Pixelfed. There's lots of ordinary folks on Instagram, everything from disability rights advocates to a woman who performs classic works on the piano with a rooster on her head. But Pixelfed seemed very hard core photography; I found it very intimidating.

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     Matv1 (matv1@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:03:56 JST Matv1

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     @dansup OneDrive/Teams/Sharepoint -> #Nextcloud

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     Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤 (sloanlance@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:44:35 JST Mr. Lance E Sloan (IRL) 👤

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     @dansup
     Cooked? How so? What have I missed?

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     KnittingMittens (She/Her) (knittingmittens@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:47:19 JST KnittingMittens (She/Her)

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     @dansup The one thing keeping on facebook is local community groups. My profile is basically a burner account with not much personal info, but I love my local Buy Nothing group.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:51:05 JST feld

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     • Andreu
     @andrewwet @dansup Delta Chat is better than Matrix or Signal
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     Andreu (andrewwet@masto.es)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 07:51:06 JST Andreu

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     @dansup Matrix? XMPP?

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     mischievoustomato@0.5dollah.click's status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:11:14 JST mischievoustomato

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     @dansup no one uses that stuff, the avg joe won't care either

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:13:17 JST feld

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     • Andreu
     • Hot Karla
     @k @andrewwet @dansup
     
     technically it's a chat app built on top of email using PGP for the E2EE encryption. It could work with any email account / service, but it's best to use the specialized ChatMail server deployment as it is optimized for this use case. Nobody needs to know it's email underneath. That's the magic part about it. It just works, and it works great.
     
     The ChatMail deployment is optimized for latency and as much metadata and logging as possible is scrubbed from the server and the messages. It's very well done.
     
     Their architecture also allows self-hosted servers to transparently integrate with their push notification service so unlike self-hosted XMPP push notifications to your device just works. No logs are retained and the push notifications have no identifying info.
     
     Additionally they've implemented direct P2P connectivity bypassing the email servers and the WebXDC "apps" they've designed can use this functionality too. You could build little games and utilities that you can publish into a chat and users can open them and interact in realtime. It's super neat.
     
     Additionally, because it's built upon email standards, it can't easily be blocked. An ISP or nation state would have to block all email access to everyone to stop it. But email's too important so it's not feasible to break that part of the internet for your citizens.
     
     Finally, it's very low resource usage. You can host like thousands of user accounts on a Raspberry Pi if you wanted.
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     Hot Karla (k@wizard.casa)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:13:18 JST Hot Karla

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     • feld
     • Andreu

     @feld @dansup @andrewwet Can you explain (or give a link to a good summary of) Delta Chat?

     I've been interested in encrypted chat apps lately.

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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:14:32 JST feld

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     @takao you can't currently bring your own PGP key to Delta Chat so I'm not sure how that would have worked anyway?
     
     Are you sure you were trying Delta Chat?
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     :segasaturn: (takao@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:14:33 JST :segasaturn:

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     • feld
     • Andreu
     @feld @andrewwet @dansup last time I tried to use it, it couldn't handle my key and then cock.li banned my account
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:25:42 JST feld

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     • Andreu
     • Hot Karla
     @k @andrewwet @dansup Signal's encryption is technically superior and has PFS. It's not clear that it really matters though as PGP crypto is not stuck in the 1990s unless you NEED backwards compatibility with 1990s clients.
     
     Also it supports multi-device. Just scan a QR code with your other client and poof there it is.
     
     Sign up to a server instantly? Scan the QR code (random username/password generated for you)
     
     Join a group chat? Scan a QR code.
     
     It's great. I have a self-hosted server without federation so it's extra private for my use case. Ping me if you want to try it, Delta Chat has a very slick onboarding process.
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     Hot Karla (k@wizard.casa)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 08:25:43 JST Hot Karla

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     • feld
     • Andreu

     @feld @dansup @andrewwet That's dope. I would still think double ratchet encryption gives Signal based apps the advantage in what I would want. SimpleX works well most of the time and it's supposedly easy to self host. There's also Keychat which is the Signal protocol on NOSTR but it has the same problem as everything on NOSTR where your identity can be easily hijacked and once it is you're pretty much SOL.

     Maybe Matrix too but I have problems with the leeway it provides with key management

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     Maximilian (jedimax@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:16:26 JST Maximilian

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     @dansup so these services have robust moderation and fact checking? Who fact checks the fact checkers to ensure they’re being truthful and unbiased?

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     :segasaturn: (takao@shitposter.world)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:41:57 JST :segasaturn:

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     • feld
     @feld https://delta.chat/en/help#importkey
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     feld (feld@friedcheese.us)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:44:51 JST feld

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     • :segasaturn:
     @takao thanks for the correction, I keep misremembering because all my keys are on HSMs and you can't use those for obvious reasons or at least without being super inconvenient
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     jade (karebu@social.karebu.gay)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 09:46:15 JST jade

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     • cos

     @cos @dansup Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message.

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     heash_0831 (heash_0831@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 10:00:18 JST heash_0831

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     @dansup Also would like to recommend Lemmy as an alternative to Reddit

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     Paranoid Factoid (paranoidfactoid@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 10:07:28 JST Paranoid Factoid

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     @dansup How does one rearrange post order in a collection?

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     harce (harce@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 11:20:00 JST harce

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     @dansup id add Lemmy for groups/forum functionality. Its a massive part of why people still use Facebook.

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     David W. Jones (dancingtreefrog@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:32:02 JST David W. Jones

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     • BrianKrebs

     @dansup
     Alternatives to Telegram? Matrix seems to lack some of Telegram's features.
     @briankrebs

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     theghostie (theghostie@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 12:33:40 JST theghostie

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     @dansup is there something that is a good replacement for Instagram's stories? I like seeing my friends' little slice of life/pet/food videos/photos/memes and would like somewhere to encourage people to migrate.

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     lukebranson (lukebranson@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:21:57 JST lukebranson

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     @dansup unfortunately, I don't know if they're "cooked". They're just taking fewer directions from feds. I'd still recommend getting off of big tech platforms of course. My only criticism is do we really gotta replace reels? 😂

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     lukebranson (lukebranson@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:26:45 JST lukebranson

     @dansup I'm saying we should ditch doomscrolling altogether haha

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     LIPSERVANT (lipservant@aus.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 14:45:58 JST LIPSERVANT

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     @dansup Really would like to replace Insta with pixelfed, but there's no app, and even after signing up, no logon, so can't.

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     kaaswe (kaaswe@swecyb.com)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 15:36:11 JST kaaswe

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     @dansup
     I would suggest Signal as the alternative to WhatsApp

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     Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 (bhasic@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2025 21:37:49 JST Elon Muksis 🇺🇦 🇪🇺

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     @dansup https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/110658545215853887

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     flutttr (flutttr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 09-Jan-2025 11:11:54 JST flutttr

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     @dansup now do music