Nowhere as optimal as 9292 though. And for walking and bicycling, OpenStreetMaps or komoot or Tourtje are great. The latter two are annoying in that you need to make an account, though.

On top of that, all those I mentioned are much less data hungry than G**gle Maps.

Welcome, comrade!

As another user said, it’s a little different. In a nutshell, Reddit is a single big tree, all stuff within the Fediverse are more like many smaller trees.

A more nuance…

In terms of who depends on whom, imagine Reddit and its admins as a lone tree. A tree is an ‘instance’. The mods are branches, and subreddits are leaves, and users as ants living on that tree.

When Reddit censors e.g. anti-fascist and pro-freedom of speech stuff, you as the ant cannot really go to another tree. Reddit isn’t connected with alternatives. But the Fediverse is different.

Lemmy, Piefed, and kbin on the other hand, are more like a forest of trees. Lemmy might be the evergreens, Piefed broadleafs, mbin/kbin ferns, and so on. There isn’t one “lemmy”, Piefed, or mbin/kbin. There are many sidelemmies (or sidepies), which on Reddit you would call a subreddit.

There are also many trees in that forest of each type. They’re connected. So when one’s down, you can easily move to another tree.

Now, the Fediverse overall, is like multiple interconnected forests. There’s a Peertube forest, a Friendica forest, a Lemmy/Piefed/kbin/mbin forest, and so on.

As an instance owner, you can pick your ‘tree’ to be (dis)connected to other trees and forests, to the extent you want, aka. (de)federation. And users can do the same.

If you’re going to (self)host an instance of your own, I recommend following similar policies as the Blåhaj ones, they’re good. Alternatively, donate to your instance of choice every now and then.

As far as daily drivers go and if your threat model would say your risk is low, I think Fairphone with e/ is a great choice, yeah. I was thinking of the Fairphone 6 for that case, actually.

But if your threat model is higher, or if you want to support people with higher threat models, or want to prioritise security, I think GOS seems better. My worry is primarily about the ethics of a Motorola or Pixel, considering where Motorola is based and who owns it.

They are, yes. But it feels all very paradoxical.

A company owned by a country with pervasive surveillance, set in a country with pervasive surveillance laws, cooperating with a OS developer for anti-surveillance measures.

Granted, I could see that from places with pervasive surveillance, a need arises for something that removes all that surveillance. But then, would governments not be harsh on that?

What about the USA?

A step ahead, but better to ditch relying on corpo altogether, and have an independent, own host.

Can’t Wero try to change servers?

Yesilgoz en de VVD & rechtse “bondgenoten” misschien? Ze volgt vaak Amerikaanse belangen, vind ik.

Goede zet. Wij moeten zoo veel mogelijk onze eigen gegevens en essentiële infrastruktuur in eigen handen houden.

UK are participating in terrorism now, aren’t they? They should jail & reform apartheid defenders instead.

There is a European alternative to Visa/Mastercard! It’s Wero.

Oh definitely, she’s an enabler. What we need to do, as leftists, is to look at WHAT the fascists are doing to win votes, and use their own tactics but tweaked for the left.

See: Yesilğoz, a Turkish liberal politician who betrayed the Socialist Party to work for the corrupt, big company party (VVD), and now claims to be a minister, despite effectively calling Douwe Bob’s refusal to have a pro-Israeli concert, “a normalisation of Jew hatred”.

Fuck her, she’s not my minister. And when Douwe Bob got death threats due to HER words, she refused to cave in until the latest moment. Fuck that piss minister, bought by Israel’s genocidal lobby.

I hate her and I think she is actively enabling antisemitism and fascism. And she indeed is! She tried to proclaim that antifascism is a danger.

Fascists never tell you they become fascist. They start with declaring an enemy. And let us then make sure they will regret that, and reform to be good citizens.

The real number is likely somewhere inbetween the Russian and Ukrainian estimates.

Prigozhin estimated 120,000, and that’s by 2023 only, when he complained the numbers were underreported. The lowest Western estimates of the war up to February this year, point to 230,000, the highest to 1,400,000.

Praise be, thanks!

I actually did try reporting but couldn’t, it hence why I did it this way.

Yeah this is the exact DM they send. I suspect it’s an ad or a scam attempt by having you click the image with something attached.

Sadly so far only Belgium, Germany, and France. Why those already managed to put in Wero while the rest hasn’t, is beyond me.

Are there actual, practical reasons? Or are other countries’ governments being lobbied too hard to not put through with Wero?

iDEAL from what I know is basically Wero, just local. So you’re already kind of using it, if you do so.

fascist*

Should also add that a lot of libertarians in reality tend to be more of the “I want the freedom to repress others” people, eg wanting homeschooling (which can increase abuse), opposing measures that would improve every person’s quality of life (such as universal healthcare) etc.

Anarchists on the other hand, tend to be more often on the socialist or communist kind, in where they favour the abolition of hierarchy and thus favour an egalitarian society, by abolition of private (but not personal) property.