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  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoAndroid@lemdro.id•I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux.
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    6 days ago

    Ordered it in the First batch. They said that the Android App Support is going to be subscription-free for this one, so that’s a plus I guess. Also, calls and texts will be the first for me to try. If they don’t work, then it will be a return.

    edit 18.08: ok, so phone arrived a few days ago and calls work, so no return from me (at least now). But there are some odd things that I still need to see how to fix and some odd design decision. I cannot write a full in-depth review about this, but the idea is that - if you have access to a custom ROM for your phone try that instead. Do try this however if you’re curious to check another platform that’s not Android or iOS and it helps you get the job done in 2026. The phone itself is great, I haven’t encountered any lag whatsoever basically, but the system does have some friction and you will miss a bit of stuff even from ungoogled Android (i.e.: widgets). YMMV.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•Meta Caught Paying Nazis to Post on Facebook
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    14 days ago

    Fair. Friendica stayed well below the radar for pretty much the entire time, even though it sounded a bit familiar for me when I created this account a few years back, and it is also kinda the oldest platform in the Fediverse.

    It has many of the features that regular Facebook has, like creation and attending to groups (even this Lemmy community is displayed as a group) as well as events and pages, but also some extra stuff non-privacy related like following RSS feeds directly, as well as supporting BB Code for formatting your text pretty much everywhere (in your posts, comments, in your profile descriptions or in the event descriptions). Not only it supports ActivityPub, but it also supports Diaspora and RSS (as said) and Tumblr and Bluesky (if you have an account there). Server admins can also install add-ons which add all sorts of extra functionality - from compatibility with other networks (with Tumblr, Bluesky or WordPress) to stuff like content filter or collapsing posts if they are not displayed in a language of your choosing (stuff that Facebook, again, doesn’t have).

    And of course, it is not owned by Meta, nor it has the privacy invasive features of it, nor it does spy you across the web whether you have an account on it or not, nor does it pump billions into failed projects like the Metaverse only to later pull the plug, nor it invests into AI projects or spy glasses.

    If you’re more curious about it, I wrote a handy guide myself here a while ago (I’m not involved into the development of it, but this was the best way I could contribute - and sorry for the Google site). There’s a server list here where you can pick your server (if you want a recommendation, pick friendica.world for the largest server, or loma.ml for a bigger selection of add-ons) and a video guide on both YouTube and [https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1]PeerTube](https://peertube.stream/w/p/4K4MWYXMEYUtVDqKjjq4Uu?playlistPosition=1) if you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed. And there’s a support group at !helpers

  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoTechnology@beehaw.org•The offline messaging apps challenging internet shutdowns
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    17 days ago

    Yeah, xmpp is a great protocol, but everyone needs to be in the vicinity of the server

    I’m also thinking about the possibility of blocking/hijacking the network by the law enforcement forces. If every device is also a node connecting to each other, they can be more hardly taken down I think.

    meshtastic

    I’m not so familiar with meshtastic, but wouldn’t be more helpful to have something that actually runs on people’s phones instead of having a separate device? I mean, as you said, everyone has phones, and with something like the Ripple app (or any other panic button app) you could hide the app or clear its data (or you could do it manually). With meshtastic, in the event of a search, I think you would be more suspicious, I think.

  • petrescatraian@libranet.detoCasualEurope@piefed.social•Round 2: European podcasts!
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    27 days ago

    No relevant EN podcasts from me fwiw. I do have some Romanian recommendations if you want to:

    • Știrile Zilei Recorder - daily news from the independent investigation publication Recorder - they mainly quote other media sources, but they’re a good and fairly neutral digest of general daily news in Romanian.
    • Recorder Talks - a collab with politica la minut - a (social) media project aiming to better explain the political events in simple terms in order to combat disinformation
    • Vorbitorincii - hosted by Cătălin Striblea, a journalist at Europa FM, together with writer Radu Paraschivescu and a few others. It is a bit right leaning, but they positioned themselves firmly against fascism and our far-right political forces
    • Istoria României (The History of Romania) - as the name implies, it is a history podcast. Although the host previously worked in IT, she manages to provide a comprehensive, fairly balanced and non-nationalistic vision of the events. She also declared that she is a fan of Mike Duncan.
    • Arhiva de Sunet (The Sound Archive) - a listened history of Romanian music. All genres and subgenres, from jazz, to rock to manele.