Play Store, which I’m avoiding

same

also I read amythest’s privacy report and they send data to google it sounds like lol

The app may collect a per-device token, your public key, and a preferred Relay to connect to and provide push notification services through Google’s Firebase Cloud Messaging.

https://github.com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/blob/main/PRIVACY.md

is that anything or a nothingburger

lol good point but it is just one of the currently stickied posts

alice post on possible other lemmies: https://exploding-heads.com/post/826410?scrollToComments=true

migration path post: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

alice post on possible other lemmies: https://exploding-heads.com/post/826410?scrollToComments=true

tfw donky.social registrations still not open (or are they)

yeah an explodingheads matrix might be nice

in the other stickied post they also mentioned having bot problems and suspending registrations over it: https://lemmy.world/post/3995057?scrollToComments=true

> kaboom

> kapow

see mob post on topic: https://exploding-heads.com/post/844362?scrollToComments=true

yeah I was sick this week and felt like I wanted to prioritize more other things over forums

I learn a lot from forums and have good convos so idk about cutting them out totally, cold turkey

but I have also lived without internet and I am wondering about more of life like that

i did not watch because politics is “fake and gay” so to speak

I’m interested, but also was thinking this might be an opportunity to back away from forums a bit for me

we have already bounced from forum to forum quite a bit

well what are your thoughts on nostr

the reason why nostr was liked was to prevent us from having to keep bouncing around as much

there’s also https://squabblr.co/

discussion of migration paths: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

wigglehard is bummed out about the move:

Gab will now be the permanent home of the dank, microwave taco community until further notice. I will only use other social media to promote for us, and convince people to come to gab. Nostr needs a lot of development and its current form reminds me of Twitter if it had a retarded cousin. It doesn’t work right and is inconsistent in performance.

https://gab.com/Kaiser_Rotepille/posts/110938540076346152

Nostr hasn’t been smooth for me at all but I’ll probably figure something out

Lemmy is irredeemable

it’s just that right wing and libertarians aren’t hosting instances, not that it can’t be redeemed

left instances can be “trolled” within the rules plenty

add links.hackliberty.org maybe, they have been around since wolfballs days and someone mentioned them in another post; admittedly there seem to be few users there

I think it’s a little better understood now (this post was linked to)

Blue Dwarf is a nice little forum, glad you found it

yeah idk if the move solves the problem, I was thinking about this a little and it seems people need to somehow be incentivized to talk to each other even if they disagree on things, not sure how to accomplish this

on neutral things it may be mutually beneficial to cooperate, like on discussing solutions to math problems which then could be used for a computer application everyone can use

discussion of migration paths: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

discussion of migration paths: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

we should really continue to post in non rule breaking ways in lemmy instances, maybe. breaks their echo chamber. sometimes mutually beneficial exchanges of info happens

discussion of migration paths: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

discussion of migration paths: https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

do u use https://scored.co

all the OP ones

lemm.ee looks most tolerant of the bigger lemmies maybe

bluedwarf.top is a little text only cozy forum

I “back up” my posts to my computer, then just do a keyword file search to find stuff if I ever want to repost places

Some of the reddit alternatives sound interesting (discuit, squabblr, etc.) even if they have the same problems that may doom them eventually; I just havent gotten to experimenting with too many other forums I guess

MOB once said it wasn’t expensive, maybe a couple hundred bucks a year

you could operate a lemmy instance on a spare old computer for the price of electricity

You could buy hosting like with Dreamhost (I forget if wolfballs ended up using another), I forget how much it is a month, maybe like $10? Buy a domain and have them host and then you just set up the software

I don’t think it’s expensive overall, more probably of the time and effort of coding

there may be more costs

I’ve wondered if / when donky would open up

yeah make use of gab

also scored freeforum, wolfballs, explodingheads communities (or just freeforum maybe)

we also need a new lemmy instance to migrate to

edit: post on migration paths - https://exploding-heads.com/post/792397?scrollToComments=true

well the other donky user pointed out that images wont carry over I guess, but text does I think and if pics are hosted by a third party they can be retrieved from there and will show up if the third party is still ok

got it - images will come through if hosted by a third party however (like catbox moe)

so, something to think about, a lot of instances have made backups of our stuff up to the point of defederation I think?

example: lemmy.world/c/freeforum@exploding-heads.com

https://lemmy.world/u/ihatetroons@exploding-heads.com

I think their reasoning is defederation has become de facto censorship and created fragmentation problems

even among the leftists there’s been some big defederations (lemmyworld against a piracy instance, beehaw against lemmyworld, hexbear being defederated by beehaw / lemmyworld I think, etc.)

I’m used to migrating, just make sure we get a bunch of people on alternative platforms

Gab freeforum: https://gab.com/groups/72118

freeforum is on scored but kinda inactive: https://scored.co/c/freeforum

We can migrate to other lemmy instances (recommended ones?)

Nostr migration will gain most or many of us as in the post

> post more?

this post was reported as gross LOL

it’s a hivemind of a sort

they keep themselves out tbh

they do it for free

we have !explodingprayers community too

said a prayer for a “good death” for him

I like nostr most in theory but have no organic engagement on there or gab

the absolute state of leftist politics

I think you can still say “transgenderism bad” just without referring to trannys or troons as such, whereas on other spaces saying so is banned for transphobia, that kind of thing

shhhhh… it’s just woke

What’s right?