That’s one beef I have with the EFF right now. They offer no alternative solutions to this. They just didn’t want any kind of protections at all.

That’s because public discourse is saturated by the extreme at both ends of the spectrum. The part of society that feels there could be some solution in the center of the argument is drowned out by Stallman zealots that feel that diddling kids is bad but you shouldn’t be kept from doing it if it requires any information on you while the corporate sycophants are crying that they can’t protect THE KIDS if they don’t have every piece of information on you from birth onwards.

I view it the same as politics. I’ll let the others behave as if they have a say in it and argue for or against. I’ll just quit using discord when they require verification, as I will/have for any other corporation that does the same. Not because I don’t think verification of some kind would help protect everyone from additional risk but because providing my very sensitive information to corporations that both exploit my data and pass it on to hackers and third-parties is not something I am willing to do.

Absolutely not. Peertube not only stuggles to share content to enough eyes to matter, it’s hurdles for both creators and viewers to participate are higher than any other Fediverse platform out there. To clarify my point, act as a viewer, start out at the Peertube homepage, and get to the point where you can build a subscription list, make a comment and interact(upvote) 10 videos pertaining to 10 different genres you enjoy. After a day of trying, I gave up.

Peertube would need a huge intuitiveness boost to become anything more than a fun side-project for tech nerds.

It’s really much harder than you’d imagine it’d be before starting if you’re hoping to retain the same level of convenience. I’d say nearly impossible.

I moved my phone to Graphene last week and have spent countless hours getting things to work and finding ways to do things without Google’s various apps and there is always a concession to be made. You can install those G-apps but that’s the whole point so you have to keep accepting things like no RCS in messages, no touch-to-pay, no reliable speech synthesis, a bunch of non-working apps if they rely on the play services, no whole-phone backup and restore, etc. The list is very, very long.

I’m not Google-free on it but with sandboxed and permission-stripped G-apps, I’m hoping I’m not leaking my data to Google.

I happened to wear the shirt version of this yesterday :)

Will* become.

“Harrison said he had bought the gun a couple of years before because he wanted a “sense of security” for his family.”

Top notch job on the family security.

That’s very interesting and I’d never heard of it, thanks! I’ll play with it and see if I can’t sort that out.

Thank you for the links, I’ll give it another shot.

I’ll take a look, thanks very much for the suggestion.

Thanks very much for the suggestion. I bought it when it first released but it was still very rudimentary. It’s got desktop now so I gave that a shot. I think the app is incredibly powerful but it just fights me the entire time for anything I try to do. Importing subs, viewing them, syncing, enabling plugins, everything is just fiddly and often results in an error.

I’ll play with it some more but I need to read up more about how they handle the subs as Google is great at breaking 3rd party frontends.

Thank you again for the suggestion.

Short answer: no.

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It would take me a lot less time to be sick of football.

I’ve been working on this to varying but increasing degrees for a while. I’m still using a Google phone but running Graphene on it with a sandboxed play services and Rethink/Firewall to block all ad/tracking/analytic/telemetry traffic. No other Google apps and using privacy-focused alternatives for common apps.

I wouldn’t call it privacy-focused as the hardcore guys would balk but I think I’m a good ways toward botching the majority of data collection.

I understand completely but am trying to mold my access to the world in a way that doesn’t cause me such depression. I don’t use the normal social networks, I’ve used the piefed filters to block everything about musk, trump, ice, america, politics, etc. and I’ve never followed any kind of “news”.

Before I did that, I was literally becoming chronically suicidal(well, that’s not gone but it’s better) from the absolute shit-show that the world has become(it’s not just the US, other countries are quickly adopting the bipartisan hatred model now that they see it works to divide). It would be different if you saw something regarding a change towards improvement but that’s never seen, you just get another endless scroll of shit that is destroying society with no way to change it.

The fediverse is just as bad as any other social network out there. Although the leaning is opposite, it’s still full of extremism, hyperbolic hatred, ridicule, mockery, division and sufferporn. Without filters, it would be as unusable to me as, say, facebook or trump’s social network.

I’m withdrawing a lot from people online but still spend a lot of time online, it’s just not as interactive as it used to be.

If this is not sustainable, I’m sure I’ll likely follow your lead and leave it to the rest of the world.

I’ve never owned one but always thought I’d appreciate the easier grab for the high end.

As one of your disliked, I am able to relate. I don’t like us either.

I hope you’re able to weed us out of your life enough to have it not negatively effect you.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer group of dickbags.

What I always do, avoid society.