I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

I haven’t used it but there’s ProxiTok.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

I haven’t used Chameleon, but it seems to do some stuff like change the user agent that JShelter doesn’t do. I’d assume it’s more useful to get around a site designed for a specific browser or operating system.

JShelter isn’t mainly for spoofing, it’s about blocking a bunch of potentially harmful advanced javascript features, often used for tracking. Any spoofing is mostly to keep sites working with the missing javascript features.

I have it installed on one of my browsers. I wouldn’t recommend using it unless you’re willing to tweak the settings for new sites you visit, because I’ve had it break sites pretty often with the default settings.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

The big one is W11 now requires a TPM chip, so tons of computers will stop getting updates soon, with no way to upgrade.

And they keep getting worse with a bunch of annoyances, like more ads, trying to force ai, making it harder to avoid a microsoft account, and getting rid of ways to customize the desktop layout.

It’s an interesting project, but NodeBB and Discourse have been working on adding activitypub support, so people who prefer bb style forums will probably use those. I don’t think they integrate that well with lemmy yet, but I think it’s being worked on.

I like the idea of social bookmarking, but haven’t gone through the effort of comparing all the options yet. I do have a list of open source bookmarking projects though:

Federated social bookmarking:

• https://github.com/raffomania/linkblocks

• https://postmarks.glitch.me/

Social bookmarking:

• https://linkhut.org/

• https://linkding.link/

• https://grimoire.pro/

• https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/bookmarks

• https://sitebar.org/

• https://semanticscuttle.sourceforge.net/

Apps:

• https://github.com/floccusaddon/floccus

• https://github.com/fibelatti/pinboard-kotlin

Bookmark manager:

• https://aerocyber.adityaajay.me/sitemarker

webpage archiving:

• https://wallabag.org/

There’s also Arity. It isn’t the best interface, but it has functions, variables, and graphs.

I was also using Unitto for unit conversions, but apparently the creator doesn’t want forks or for f-droid to host it, so I’m looking for another one.

Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.

It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

There’s pinetta that’s inspired by pinterest, but the repo hasn’t been updated in a couple years.

Fascist ideas don’t spread because they make good points. They spread because they get repeated so much. People who don’t know any better believe it because they’ve heard it so many times, or from someone they trust. Federating with fascists gives them more people to spread their ideas to.

Talking to conservatives can definitely help, but it really depends on the context. Just having people who they disagree with in their lives can can be helpful. If you’re someone they trust you might get them to work through some things. Or if you know a topic really well and know what talking points they’re likely to bring up. But it’s nearly impossible to get though to people who already hate you.

Everyone is at a different place with what they want to handle. Some people just want a small friendly community where they have a chance to relax. Others want a more open communities that only keep out the worst. And some are okay with putting up with harassment to reach more people. But generally we shouldn’t force others to put up with that harassment along with us.

I generally prefer to federate with as many communities as possible, but federating with fascists is a terrible idea. You’re just making people in your community vulnerable to harassment.

People are self organizing onto these instances, and if they don’t like their current one it’s not hard to move. Most people won’t move to one that allows nazis in.

There’s also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.

I’m pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I’d generally recommend against doing this.

They’ve done federation on a few test posts, but it’s definitely not there yet for normal users to use.

I’m not sure about a bridge, but there’s some services like friendica and hubzilla that can speak both protocols.