@killyourfm ...then make transcoded digital backups of your privately owned physical media. Validate the backups any time you want, without wear and tear to your physical copies. 👍
Plex, VLC, Kodi, peertube, funkwhale, all great backup validation suites. There's lots!
I keep explaining to IRL people why I'm on Fedi, and that there's no "Engagement Engineering" so ofc I put it down after a while, naturally.. THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE..
Weaving my (own, personal) social network with "tools" is so much more healthy than being on a corporate attention treadmill with "products"!
Volunteer to help your local admins, and/or contribute. It's worked for public radio, it can work for public internet..
It doesn't have to be a Mastodon fork either, right?
Pleroma Misskey Friendica pixelfed loops PeerTube hell, even nextcloud
There's a ton of ways to implement ActivityPub, trying to reinvent Twitter is kinda tunnel vision, no?
Consider, instances themselves are less important than being able to *connect* with people. Everyone doesn't *need* to be on the same instance. Too much emphasis on One True Platform™ is how we got in this mess.
@brainwane heck yeah i have stuff to hide! - credit card numbers - medical records - ideas for novels/products - family communications - bank account details - property deeds
You can't have *privacy* without *security*, but you *can* have security *without* privacy.
Be most wary of those (systems) which would obscure this fact.