There’s been people trying to push ⁂ as a way to represent the fediverse using a unicode symbol. I’m not sure it’s really taken off, but it’s an option.

If you go to the repository settings there’s an option to enable archived apps and outdated versions. Then select the f-droid archive repo for that app.

Often these are disabled for a reason, so you might want to check if there’s any important bug fixes since then.

That’s monthly right? It’s a slight exageration, but that’s close to low end used car payments. And from what I understand it’ll go up as bluesky gets more popular, and the more relays there are.

It’s designed so other relays need to handle every message sent on all of bluesky, so server costs would be way too high for most people. Like car prices for minimal bluesky relay setup, and way more if you want to actually store all the messages you’re processing.

@helloyanis@jlai.lu made a browser addon for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lemmy-language-memorizer/

They’re not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there’s Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there’s lem.el.

I just want to add that it’s not just the idea of gender being immutable, it’s identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don’t match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.

Sorted them into a few categories

Social

• Cheogram - xmpp chat, can also handle phone and sms gateways

• Fedilab - my preferred fediverse app for mastodon

• Jerboa - preferred lemmy app

• K-9 Mail - email

• Pixelix - pixelfed app. not sure if I like this or PixelDroid better yet

Media

• AntennaPod - podcasts

• Kiwix - offline copies of useful wikis, q&as, archives, etc.

• Librera FD - books

• NewPipe - watch youtube videos, although google keeps trying to break it

• Voice - audiobooks

Security

• Aegis - two factor authentication

• KeePassDX - password management

• WG Tunnel - VPN connection, still not sure if this is the best option

Notes and Documents

• Orgzly Revised - note taking. for people not familiar with emacs something like logseq or safe notes might be better

• Pinkt - bookmarks

• Syncthing-Fork - synchronize files between devices

System

• F-Droid - technically it can install itself

• Lawnchair - alternative home screen / app launcher

• ntfy - runs in the background, handles push notifications for some other apps

• Unexpected Keyboard - has the fancy keys that most android keyboards leave out

Other Tools

• Fennec - basically firefox

• Organic Maps - sometimes missing info and it doesn’t have traffic data. simpler than OsmAnd

• PocketPaint - make art on your phone

• QuickDict - offline multi-language dictionary

I’ve got hundreds more installed, but those are some of my favorites.

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For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don’t think they’ve said whether they’ll use that going forward.

Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it’s still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it’s done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.

It was a term for modded crappy japanese motorcycles and cars, that derived from a slur for asian people.

Personal data storage can be decentralized, although that’s missing the social part of the social network.

Identities are set up through a centralized system that in theory they could change, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Relays supposedly can be decentralized, but need to handle all data on the network. So they require massive hosting costs that keep going up as more people use bluesky. Only large corporations can likely afford to run them, and that hasn’t happened yet.

That’s definitely a factor to consider, but running binary blobs that you don’t have the source for is also a risk. It comes down to what threat vectors you think are important and what risks you’re willing to take.

It’s probably because they use busybox instead of gnu utilities so it’s not technically GNU/Linux, but yeah.

Short answer is Trisquel if you like Ubuntu/Debian, Parabola if you like Arch, and Guix if you like frustration.

The libre kernel is a bit of a pain regarding wifi and bluetooth, and depending on your graphics card the drivers aren’t going to run quite as well. You might need to get new a wireless card/usb, since there’s only a few modern chips that work with it.

There’s a list of distros on gnu.org that use the libre kernel by default, if you want to look at more options. PureOS is based on Debian focused on privacy and security. Hyperbola is based on Arch with 32 bit and BSD options.

Personally I use Guix, which is an amazing abomination with awesome features that most people don’t care about. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people unless you are coming from NixOS, know a lisp dialect, and/or are willing to put in a lot of effort.

There’s also Midnight Lizard. It’s more powerful, but more resource intensive so I wouldn’t recommend on phones or older systems.

The github page for overleaf seems to indicate the community edition is AGPL.

I feel like it’s really far from being open. Besides the training data not being open, the more popular ones like llama and stable diffusion have these weird source available licenses with anti-competitive clauses, user count limits, or arbitrary morality clauses.

It usually implies it’s weird in an old-fasioned way though.