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

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

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

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)

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.

I use Ecosia, it plants trees with the profits from its ad revenue! Results are sourced from Bing and Google.

This worked, thanks!

Solution: Go to Settings > Home > Enable Shortcuts > Go to a new tab > Google will be pinned by default, hover over the Google icon > Click on the 3 dots menu > Unpin

Yes, my default search engine is Ecosia.

I haven’t changed it manually though, I installed their extension and it changed the default; if this matters in any way.

You don’t need internet to access the passwords stored in Bitwarden if you have their local clients installed. It stores an encrypted copy of your database locally to your device which syncs (updates) over the internet.

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?

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.

There’s also https://justbeamit.com which iirc also functions in a similar way.

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

In my country, the state provides you with legal representation if you’re unable to afford it on your own. Is that not the case in other countries (USA and Europe specifically)?

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

The clip is from a documentary called “A President, Europe and War” and it is not fake AFAIK.

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).

rdx.overdevs.com doesn’t redirect to two different websites, it’s a subdomain (which essentially functions just like any other domain).

The name being long isn’t really a problem when most people just bookmark the sites they want to visit often and/or add the site to their home screen on mobile devices.

Moreover, using an alternate domain would incur additional unnecessary yearly cost & time to renew. The less maintenance these types of projects need, the better it is usually for them to survive long term.

There’s Revolt (FOSS, functionally the same as Discord but it’s centralised) and Matrix (FOSS and decentralised but it’s somewhat functionally different than discord). Both have their pros and cons. You can look into them.

It’s so ridiculous when corporations steal everyone’s work for their own profit, no one bats an eye but when a group of individuals do the same to make education and knowledge free for everyone it’s somehow illegal, unethical, immoral and what not.