My favorite is PixelFed. I'm an artist, so Instagram was important for me, but for a few years now it's absolutely terrible (no reach at all with their special algorithms). PixelFed fixes all that, it replicates the feeling of IG as it was 8-10 years ago: chronological feed, tag-based, no extraneous features. I'm really enjoying it, as I can finally grow again my followship as an artist: https://pixelfed.org/

Sorry, but in my book, nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies random violence. Your justification of it sickens me and I'm surprised that you got so upvoted. I've been on the breaking point from things that were happening inside my own home as a kid, but I never took it on my little brother, or other kids. Instead, I was taking it against the actual aggressor (my father), even if it resulted in more beatings and hairline broken jaws, and put the knife, or the gun on my head. So, yes, I've been through some shit myself. But I protected my brother and my mother as much as I could. Doing random violence, as you described it, against people who might have their own cross to bear is not justified. EVER.

And yes. They CAN act against Bezos, Musk, and the board of Exxon. They can easily find where these people are, paparazzis certainly can. Every second day we have pictures of Bezos with his darling gf. Get organized so the locals can take it against him when he visits somewhere. But you don't act against your fellow citizen who is also a victim of oppression and climate change, or destroy classic works of art. What kind of BS is that??

I grew up very poor in Greece, and my mom used to give us a slice of bread that had poured white sugar on it, and... olive oil. It was many years later that I realized that these were deconstructed donuts.

XMPP was better known as Jabber back in the day, and most of us used Pidgin to connect to it. I used it for about 10 years or so.

I always use the subscription feed, in fact, my custom homepage has a link to specifically that page. However, my husband didn't even notice that there was such an option and only uses the recommended feed (we talked about it recently). I personally can't stand recommendation engines. These have destroyed my art business in social media platforms. I need chronological.

Maybe some bigger subreddits are dying, but the UFOs and Experiencers subreddits are as active as ever, if not more. I guess these remain big there because these subjects are very censored in other social media (e.g. youtube) and never show up in search results (they show only videos from tv news). Reddit also censors them (e.g. some posts that contain more info than usual), but you can still see these posts when you go to these subreddits directly.

I have two personas. One with a google phone with FB (to talk to my mom to Greece), and a macbook. And another with a de-googled Murena eOS phone and Linux laptop. One of these two personas will die once I move to Greece next year. I don't mind not being able to talk to friends on FB or IG. If they want to find me, there's email, or they can join federated social media. I won't miss them.

I don't like infinite scrolling. It's resource heavy after a while.

Love PixelFed, I just like chronological and tag based systems. This way every user gets an equal opportunity to be seen. Unlike what's happening with recommendation systems, where only a few super stars are pushed by the algorithms. If anyone like traditional illustrations, here's my profile: https://pixelfed.social/i/web/profile/495699973550816234

There is interoperability between PixelFed and Mastodon for sure. I often get a lot of likes from there, rather than PixelFed itself.

The Matrix is unprecedented indeed. Perfect intro too.

Dark themes are not as readable for me.

You can follow me if you like book illustration art: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli Another way, is to search for tags. For example, if you like fishing, you search for that tag, and then you find ppl that post interesting fishing stuff.

Thank you!!! Here is my art account: https://pixelfed.social/EugeniaLoli

Yes, I use feedly. Newsblur is restricting a lot of things in their free version, but I find Feedly more open.

Not a bad DE, but nearly unmaintained lately. The development of it has been crawling.

There is no point disabling the google app when the rest of the phone runs on Google services, and the rest of the google apps. The tracking will happen regardless. If you don't want to be tracked by them, you need a de-googled version of Android, that doesn't run their apps, or their services. I'm currently using /e/ OS, an Android de-googled fork, by Murena: https://murena.com/ on an older Motorola G7 Plus. No google apps, and I make a point of not installing any popular app that depends on google's services. I only use open source apps found on the f-droid open source store. Yes, that means that you won't have games, or FB or IG, or twitter (unless you use them via the browser). But I don't need any of that. I now only use fediverse open source apps, plus the basic phone apps found on the Murena eOS, like email and notes.

Ok, but why not use Murena /e/ OS, that has MicroG pre-installed (and in fact, they're the main developers of microG), and the ability to install google play apps if you want? They support even more phones than LineageOS at this point, and their codebase was originally from LineageOS. I installed e OS on my Moto G7 Plus, and it works great!

I found nothing weird about its design, in fact, it just looks like an iphone, that billions use at this point.

You seem to be German, so your solution is a Tuxedo laptop or computer. A German Linux hardware company.

their drivers aren't open, so there are always crashes and bugs that they can't be fixed, because nvidia can't test with all the distros, or all wayland implementations, or games under linux. Intel drivers are the most rock solid under linux.