In America you have the freedom to drive a car (and are basically structurally prohobited from getting around any other way)

Sorry I’ll let someone more knowledgeable answer about metadata, but signal does allow you to set a username and hide your phone number (so people add you with username instead if f number)

Sure. But ur post aint shit. It’s a good post.

Are you using an app, or a website UI, if so the default one or one of the many others?

Who is titler?

I’ve honestly found signal better than matrix.

Matrix is just not there yet in terms of features UI etc and is less private than signal because it collects way more metadata and stuff. I know the idea of federation is cool, but Signal works better for the privacy aspect.

Why is this in the shitpost comm?

They also have stopped updating lemmy so they are running on really old software — which makes them incompatible with most apps!

Truly a shit post. Congrats

Boycott NCAA

I know someone who deliberately misanlysed data in a study that led to an entire patient group getting denied disability benefits because his study showed the condition is “curable” (it isn’t). (His study was funded by the government department paying disability benefits and private disability insurances, of course).

Did he get what he deserved? No, he got knighted by the Queen, is serving on the board of the NHS, and is an insider with the ruling class.

Dozens, I say!

Can we not share amp links which have built in trackers?

lemmy.cafe, lemmy.zip, lemmy.one

Same — that’s why I tend to point people to a specific instance, instead of lemmy as a whole.

Yes, they fear China will turn them into “communists”.

If only they realise how close their beloved AFD and the CCP is ideologically.

and in practice they are more MLM (maoism) or MLS (stalinism).

Yeah I think I elaborated too much. Let’s just keep recommending small instances — because the current centralisation on world sucks.

Yeah. join-lemmy.org unfortunately isn’t great because it often points to random semi dead instances.

Something like,

The instance you join doesn’t matter much — because you can access all content no matter what instance you are on — but it can be nice to be on an instance that shares you interests and values, because you will have to conform to the rules of that instance. Think of it like your clan — it’s like your email being yourname@yourworkplace — you can still email everyone else and see their emails, but it signals something about you, and it has different rules.

Here are a couple options:

General Purpose:

• discuss.online (hosted US)
• lemm.ee
• lemmy.cafe
• sh.itjust.works (hosted Canada)

Interests:

• mander.xyz (Science)
• programming.dev (Programming)
• infosec.pub (Cybersecurity)
• lemmynsfw.com (Porn)

Diversity:

• lemmy.blahaj.zone (LGBTQ+)

Regions/Langauges:

• jlai.lu (French)
• feddit.org (German)
• lemmy.ca (Canada)
• aussie.zone (Australia)

Ideology:

• lemmy.dbzer0.com (Anarchism and Piracy)
• slrpnk.net (Environmentalist Leftists)
• lemmy.ml (Authoritarian Leftists)

Please copypaste my comment and add instances / improve it

Edit different versions for different instances