Notices by j0 (just migrated from LLL) (j0@wetdry.world)

@NeonPurpleStar i havent tested it too recently but linux mobile distributions have been able to phone calls on a wide variety of devices since before the pinephone. my main point here is that android being Private is almost always a misnomer unless you drop google services in which case you should use a linux phone because neither of them can do useful things anymore like wireless payments or banking or playing pokemon go

@NeonPurpleStar neither are most android custom roms. if you use vanilla android you are valuing neither privacy or usability

if you value privacy, use Linux. if you value usability? use iOS. never use android

@puniko my inv server seems finee

@NeonPurpleStar @tori im not trying to start a boycott. i just want people to be aware that these privacy startups are not politics free. i dont really care what you use personally

@tori i mean they specifically are targeting right wing audiences, duckduckgo has for a long time been recommended by the likes of ben shapiro (they pay his bills) and etc. https://twitter.com/stuartathompson/status/1496462289163145222 (twitter link provided because you statistically dont have a NYT sub)

Hi, if you use Discord and feel bad about it for some reason, don’t. Don’t let the people on here try and convince you that matrix is secretly very easy to use and better and all it needs is adoption and just host this and etc. Same with any chat app or service or whatever. Discord is popular because it is a well made, usable service. People on here play the Privacy Game and switch browsers/search engines performatively. Switching which Product you use will have next to zero implications in your daily life, just use the one that is least annoying. Most “privacy” companies are just grifting (eg DDG funding right wing media, Kagi using AI, Brave doing crypto and AI, Mozilla doing AI, Proton baselessly shitting on other services in press releases, various companies doing VPNs, Element providing services to Police, Arc doing AI, I could go on forever…)

I’m not saying to go “doomer” and just use Chrome and Google, but people need to acknowledge that these services you use exist within capitalism, and evaluate whether they really Care about your privacy, or the Monthly Active Users metric. Don’t be shocked when your Private Service gets sold to a not-so-private company. You are being marketed to.

sometimes fedi will just buzz on your wrist and show you a goober

honestly i think fediverse is the most successful open source communications software in recent times. matrix is basically falling apart and fedi has like three mature, compatible but divergent server implementations. thats kind of the best thing for a federated protocol. matrix has stayed with one awful bloated server and its done nothing but repeatedly harm the protocol.

also matrix sux