Congrats!

Depending on your situation, most of your issues can be avoided by not owning a smartphone. It’s extreme (by today’s standards, at least), but it does work. I ditched my smartphone back in 2017 for a cheap flip phone. I can find spare parts on eBay easily. My car is older, so there is no SaaS crap in it. If I need to keep in touch with someone, we can use SMS, call each other or meet in real life. I use a Linux laptop for banking/browsing the web and I keep a physical GPS in my car in case of emergency.

and I agree with you. Privacy is pretty much gone already.

#mp3z

I use Session because it doesn’t require a phone number.

I’ve noticed this too. Most of the stuff on Reddit’s frontpage has an angry undertone. Anger = Engagement.

Same here. Mandrake 8.2 was a buggy mess, but I have fond memories of it.

Frankly, I don’t see this a a problem as long as the software is up to date and the hardware is sound. I bet there are thousands of SPARC servers out there processing data 24/7 since 1995.

Invidious or Freetube if she’s on a personal computer.

Non-native speaker here. What are the disadvantages of being straightforward? In my native language, it is considered more efficient and polite to be to the point. I have worked with Americans in the past, and I have noticed that they are not straightforward.

You’re absolutely right. I come to Lemmy maybe once or twice a day. Reddit? Every hour. I really want to stop going to Reddit, but man is it hard.

I use one, but I back up my passwords once a month to an encrypted sdcard just in case.

This is old school! Great guide, thank you.

They are probably very young. Once you hit a certain age, you tend to become less extreme in your views.

FOSS has come such a long way that I don’t need proprietary software anymore for most tasks. The commercial software I use for work is ‘free’ anyway.

• https://inteltechniques.com/podcast.html
• https://watchmanprivacy.com/podcast
• https://darknetdiaries.com
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/firewalls-dont-stop-dragons-podcast/id1213366517
• https://www.modemmischief.com
• https://player.fm/series/canadian-prepper-podcast
• https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/breaking-down-collapse/id1534972612
• https://www.artofmanliness.com/podcast/
• https://www.bsdnow.tv/episodes
• https://100wattsandawire.com/podcast/
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/9jnhv-2f03b/Learn-Russian-|-RussianPod101.com-Podcast
• https://www.podbean.com/podcast-detail/bu3w8-77163/Comprehensible-Russian-Podcast-|-Learn-Russian-with-Max

I’m pretty sure the app is great, but I am not a fan of putting all my eggs in the same basket. I will keep using Bitwarden for the time being.

Yes, I didn’t have an account and I always browsed via a proxy (Teddit). I didn’t want to be manipulated by the algorithm.

I use Debian with a patched version of motif window manager. The 90s never ended:

Yo, a couple years ago I had become fed up with the state of the modern Internet, and I started looking for alternatives. This is what I have found so far:

• Gopher protocol (sdf.org is pretty active)
• Gemini protocol (Modern version of gopher)
• Shared UNIX systems (also called tildes) sdf.org is great!
• RSS
• IRC/Matrix to chat with people
• Session messenger to chat with family
• BBSes via syncterm
• wiby.me and marginalia.nu search engines to find personal web sites
• oldavista.com to browse the ‘Old Net’
• Web forums
• Neocities
• Webrings (They still exist!)
• Lemmy (This is a new one)

The next step for me will be to build my own personal site. The only way to keep the independent web alive is to participate in it.