@Protoman64 Kbin has a separate interface for microblogging and groups, that’s why it’s not that obvious. For Lemmy, well, there’s no type of blogging to begin with.

Friendica really shines in this regard, as it has the ability to interact with both groups and regular people in the same feed, while the posts are also clearly marked as such. 😁

@testing777

No worries! Also from Friendica

@gamedeviancy I decided to change the way how I save my notes. More specifically: Markdown

I got accustomed to it on spezzit FWIW, even without knowing about it in the first place, but then it felt so natural. I even use it here on Friendica, despite it being mostly relied on BBCode.

Now, how do I enjoy it? There are certain apps that save your notes as Markdown files in any folder of your choosing. You can then sync that folder through a cloud storage provider or through Syncthing so you can have your notes available on any device. And that’s it. If I do not like an app (even on one device) I switch to another. My notes stay with me an I can read them even in a normal text editor.

I did not encrypt my notes, but since these are just regular files, I assume you can use something like VeraCrypt to add the folder containing the notes in there and move them that way.

@Monument this guy planes!

@wdx

@knokelmaat Not sure if it’s a certain category, but here are some that really made me so:

• Stardew Valley
• Life is Strange (for now I only played the first series)
• Memoranda
• Tiny Echo

I’ll edit the list when I remember more.

@tesseract from a market perspective, it’s an okay trade to pay for having privacy, as you still use their services. I also donated this month to my instance because those servers don’t get their uptime from the Holly Spirit. But this should come with an audit to check if they are really respecting the user privacy of the paying customers. Or better, some regulatory to figure out if the market price for privacy is justified or is it too big, compared to the amount of data created in a given period of time by the user and sold to the advertisers.

Not to mention, they should overhaul their data collection practices so that you only have your data collected while using the service. That means getting away with practices such as shadow profiles or pixel tracking.

Or they should just use other methods to make money with their service altogether.

@throws_lemy

@Whooping_Seal Is it different in any way than, say, YaCy?

@pineapplelover guess this will just make them sign up to services that don’t share data to Google. 🤷

@throws_lemy

@DdCno1
I broke into their apartment without fighting them. Just hid from them and stole whatever I could. The next day, the news broke out that raids have started and basically nobody was safe anymore, and I kept losing things.

I died fighting someone with fists against a shotgun.

@pbjamm

@DdCno1 I see. I haven’t encountered any bugs, but based on my experience, it is rather hard.

Edit: I first thought that this comment was a reply to my comment, lol.

@alyaza

@MangoPenguin yet their free tier for their cloud services is still lacking…

@Blaze

@alyaza Interesting game, will definitely put it on my wishlist. Seems a bit similar to This War of Mine, where you play as a group of civilians which have to survive as much as possible stuck in a besieged city.

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@Whom I just saw the Gallery upgraded on F-Droid today. It’s nice that it now follows the Material You guidelines.

@smeg Me and my friends use it as a fallback for mildly urgent stuff. If anything is more urgent, then we call each other.

@Dark_Arc

@aguslr cool. Thank you for the tips!

@tesseract Yea, I was thinking about using aliases and alias providers as a middle-man to send&receive emails to&from providers that are known to be hard to tackle for people self-hosting their email. I understood from the article I linked that setting up an email server and maintaining it is a hassle itself, but I was wondering whether doing what I said above does make things easier for me or if it would be an extra burden.

@agilob code is like wine. You let it out in the cold and it gets better over time by itself.

@andrew_bidlaw You can simply see this data on any Friendica instance if you have an account. Just hover your mouse over the like/dislike numbers, and you can see who upvoted/downvoted shit. You can even receive notifications about this on your own posts, just as on Facebook.

To me, it was funny back in the day to see all tankies brigading to downvote me on any single post or comment I made, the moment I started showing my political stances 😆 (yes, even stuff posted before that had no political stuff in them, lol). But yea. To some people, this might be a drawback.

The good thing, however, is that neither Kbin nor Friendica show you a centralized place in your profile to see what did you downvote. You just have to search every post you can find to see this info.

@U2VuZCBudWRlcyA6KSAK There’s also Beeper for pretty much all the most popular services. Should be more private than using the 1st party Facebook apps.