Seriously, the whole thing with Firefox and their privacy policy is overblown. I understand the concerns, but people gotta chill.

Besides, there aren’t good alternatives out there. The closest is Librewolf and even with that browser it’s hard to work around all the problems that the increased security creates. I couldn’t do half the shit I wanted to do when I tried it and abandonne altogether.

Linux user be like ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I understand your point. But, I don’t think anyone here is creating instances in the hopes of collecting money. They’re just trying to keep the internet free (as in speech). And no, it probably doesn’t cost that much for a server with 16k users, but it still costs something and someone is paying for that out of pocket.

We have to understand that we’re at a crossroads right now. Most of the internet is dominated by GAFAM and they control the access to information and how it’s provided. They control the narrative and have a huge bias in favor of unfettered capitalism and fascism. They not only use your own personal information for profit, but hey also benefit from government subsidies paid by taxpayers.

Meanwhile you have a government that’s increasingly cutting funding for almost everything, including important organizations that fund critical open source projects.

If we want a free (as in speech) internet, we have to understand it comes at a cost and we can’t rely on governments to fund these projects. It’s up to us to put our money where our mouth is.

I’m by no means a whale. But, if us little fishes all band together, we can become even bigger than a whale.

Seriously. If this is your main instance, set up monthly donations. Even if it’s just 1$/£/€ or whatever. Times 16k that’s $16,000+/month. I donate to mine every month.

The fediverse is free because someone else is paying for it out of their own pocket. Not because they’re collecting and selling your private data. So do your part. It’s for the greater good and the freedom of the internet.

I’m increasingly seeing ads about Canadian cloud hosting services. I just hope companies stat to look at local solutions seriously.

Ah ok. Thanks! :)

I wonder what messaging service they used.

Great idea!

I… I didn’t even know there were so many.

Hell, just talking about teams in Teams is confusing enough.

Noam Chomsky would like a word.

Oh cool!

LxQT maybe? Ubuntu MATE could work too.

Well, like all of the fediverse. It’s a bunch of volunteers who run the instances out of pocket. They need donations to keep going.

I know of at least one. The channel is called The Linux Experiment.

@[email protected]

With btrfs I would just do a snapshot before an upgrade then restore if it broke.

Yeah, but they’re making it sound like it’s the Democrat’s fault of course.

The part where Mastodon is mentioned:

Use platforms and platform features that let you control your experience - Instagram’s ‘Following’ feed, YouTube’s Subscriptions page, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds

There ya go.

It’s a shame because there are good American businesses that are affected by this. There are companies that I respect. But it is what it is.

Was gonna say that.