I just want to add that it’s not just the idea of gender being immutable, it’s identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don’t match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.

For now that was just a bot mirroring posts. I don’t think they’ve said whether they’ll use that going forward.

Plenty of people still know or use the other meanings, and it’s still based on common stereotypes. Reclaiming slurs only really works when it’s done by the targeted group, and when the word is being used with positive connotations.

It was a term for modded crappy japanese motorcycles and cars, that derived from a slur for asian people.

A lot of people like to think that everything will work out okay. It’s easier to think everything will be fine than to focus on the terrible things that are happening.

Then on the other side you have people that know things are bad, but give up because they don’t know how to fix things.

I think eventually we’ll make it through this, but you can’t just be passively hopeful.

Things are bad and will get worse. But tons of people are actively working together to prevent as much damage as possible, supporting each other, and working towards a better world. As things get worse, more people will try to find ways to help each other.

We need spiteful hope and stubborn optimism. There are always ways to make things better, no matter how bad they get.

I don’t think there’s one that supports all of them yet. Probably the one that can handle the most is fedilab, which can handle mastodon and friendica, as well as a bunch of others like pixelfed, peertube, and pleroma. There’s also raccoon, which has separate apps for lemmy and friendica.

Personal data storage can be decentralized, although that’s missing the social part of the social network.

Identities are set up through a centralized system that in theory they could change, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Relays supposedly can be decentralized, but need to handle all data on the network. So they require massive hosting costs that keep going up as more people use bluesky. Only large corporations can likely afford to run them, and that hasn’t happened yet.

That’s definitely a factor to consider, but running binary blobs that you don’t have the source for is also a risk. It comes down to what threat vectors you think are important and what risks you’re willing to take.

It’s probably because they use busybox instead of gnu utilities so it’s not technically GNU/Linux, but yeah.

Short answer is Trisquel if you like Ubuntu/Debian, Parabola if you like Arch, and Guix if you like frustration.

The libre kernel is a bit of a pain regarding wifi and bluetooth, and depending on your graphics card the drivers aren’t going to run quite as well. You might need to get new a wireless card/usb, since there’s only a few modern chips that work with it.

There’s a list of distros on gnu.org that use the libre kernel by default, if you want to look at more options. PureOS is based on Debian focused on privacy and security. Hyperbola is based on Arch with 32 bit and BSD options.

Personally I use Guix, which is an amazing abomination with awesome features that most people don’t care about. I wouldn’t recommend it for most people unless you are coming from NixOS, know a lisp dialect, and/or are willing to put in a lot of effort.

It was pretty heavily associated with the alt right a decade ago as it was getting more popular. Some alt right meme communities like frenworld and clown world were centered around it, with overtly fascist pepe variants. It’s gotten more popular in a lot of other circles, but if someone identifies enough with it to use as a profile picture I’d at least check their posting history.

Google is still appealing it, so at best that will happen next year. But yeah, they’re probably adjusting their budget in anticipation.

Mozilla is set up as a non-profit with a for profit company as a subsidiary. The corporate Mozilla handles working on Firefox, mostly using money from Google for setting it as the default search engine. Because of that separation I don’t think they can easily mix those two piles of money together.

There’s this section from their FAQ:

Don’t Mozilla products, like Firefox, earn income?

Firefox is maintained by the Mozilla Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation. While Firefox does produce revenue — chiefly through search partnerships — this earned income is largely reinvested back into the Corporation. The Mozilla Foundation’s education and advocacy efforts, which span several continents and reach millions of people, are supported by philanthropic donations.

There’s Mines3D on android, although the graphics are still 2d and it’s a pain to play.

I feel like it’s really far from being open. Besides the training data not being open, the more popular ones like llama and stable diffusion have these weird source available licenses with anti-competitive clauses, user count limits, or arbitrary morality clauses.

No. It’s got a “source available” license allowing only non-commercial use, and revokes the license for anyone who tries to sue them.

It usually implies it’s weird in an old-fasioned way though.

Hacker’s Keyboard hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years, so it can be slightly buggy.

Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good. It’s got the complete keyboard layout available including stuff like Control and Function keys, so I think it’s an acceptable replacement. It uses swipes to type other keys, which I’m not sure if I prefer, but it works well enough. I set the swipe distance higher because I would accidentally swipe from time to time.

If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.

edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.

https://github.com/dessant/buster