Mullvad provides a DNS service that can be used with or without their VPN for free: https://mullvad.net/en/help/dns-over-https-and-dns-over-tls

personally, I stick with NextDNS despite using their VPN.

Beehaw’s financial update https://beehaw.org/post/15866385

Bluesky is FOSS

pretty sure it isn’t.

1. marketing
2. not having to pick the instance when registering
3. people who have experienced Mastodon’s hermetic culture discouraging others from joining
4. algorithms helping discover people and content to follow
5. marketing

and I’m saying that as a firm Mastodon user and believer.

https://moist.catsweat.com/faq

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yes I have. it’s just not my thing, thank you very much.

Podcasts are a last bastion of mainstream web freedom.

yes, I’m well aware of that, but it still doesn’t change the fact that I just don’t listen to them - especially when an episode is an hour long.

oh neat, we mainstream now

not related because I don’t listen to hour long podcast episodes, but I’ve been thinking for ages how someone like MKBHD hosting their own Mastodon instance could really solidify the Fediverse’s presence. I bet a big chunk of his audience would be willing to spend a dollar in order to get an @mkbhd.com or @matteblack.com or @24fps.com or whatever handle, too.

could’ve just read the first two paragraphs.

if you fill in your Matrix handle in your profile settings and so does the person who wants to contact you, the private messages between the two of you will use Matrix.

looks like the code is still being worked on on Forgejo, but apart from that there doesn’t seem to be any presence established. looks like Iceshrimp is a fork of it: https://iceshrimp.dev/iceshrimp/iceshrimp.net

I’ve been using the Fairphone 4 with CalyxOS and /e/OS before that, it’s pretty neat

that too, but they want to carve out a little hole for themselves where they can be even racister without people opposing them.

there are some Mastodon instances (like bird.makeup) that mirror posts from Twitter accounts, someone just has to request to mirror each specific account first. technically someone could set up a Pixelfed instance that would do the same with Instagram users, but 1. storage is much more of an issue when it comes to a media-first service, and 2. I bet Meta’s legal team is much more trigger happy than Twitter’s.

LocalCDN

https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother

without them changing their habits? you don’t.

they like having a private space where they can be as racist and bigoted as they want to be

they encrypt the content, but not the metadata. so Meta might not know what you’re talking about, but will know who do you talk with, how often, where from, for how long, and so on. that’ll often be more valuable for advertisers than the contents of the messages themselves.

they are collating and amalgamating data coming from a single IP

lol no shit. of course they’re aggregating location data, this is how, among other examples, some therapists ended up having their patients recommended as Facebook friends in the past.

if they see someone being frequently in the same location you are and at the same time you are, they will leverage your relationship to serve you ads based on their (and, presumed by the algorithm, shared to some extent) interests.