I'm willing to drop my GMail account.
What I need is an imap access, no app lock-in, and a good privacy policy, preferably with server located in the EU.

I am evaluating @soverin and @eclipso so far, with the latter lokking a bit more feature full but suspiciously less pricy.

Do you have any experience with any of those services? Have you any suggestion about them or other services I may look into?

Thanks in advance!

#mastoHelp #Privacy #DeGoogle #Email #EUPrivacy #DigitalSovereignty

@blainsmith Are you offering web hosting by the way? I need just 1 page static html - no sql db etc

@volkris I read my reply again and perhaps wasn't worded or in paragraph order but I like the idea we as pairs of people or small groups can do our own thing and use whatever we do like (rather than wait or hate on what was made before)... Peace...

@volkris I believe I hear you but what I hear above that is someone of that kind of person waiting for tech or others to do the social work... is what is almost impossible, We / you can only do that mostly and the customisation of that experience.

That's what I hear above whatever you hate (which there is plenty truth to complain about not doubting you) BUT who is actually not waiting for tech to do it and doing it more personally as much as all the other stuff ?

You are here for example (and my thanks for that) but not waiting for the system or tech created / pumped by the rich to "change" !

! No way - not waiting on that to happen ! Very low chance, those rich already chose and we have it.

Has to be or or something more than a great forum style engine like (we had 20 years ago with or etc and earlier things) - we are STILL mostly just mode-ing and that is also ok until it's only just 1-way or just a lot of the people on Trump hashtags INSTEAD of ourselves (I can see their profiles - is full on him, like a page even in the hate!).

So I'm against that consumption of time (my last few posts on my profile I hope shows that well with a clock of Trump on the face showing time and media we give him by doing so)... people are not spending even their free time with others.

More machine time and cold Tech people, highly skilled people Cold normal / other people... isn't enough practise.

The Tech mismach and work not being done produces a one-legged / tech-minded society (maybe money with it too because they base their life on it) and human projects break because of that inability (not just loving your own family for example) and make it often a big waste of time withOUT the human sides / practices together...

We could to perhaps join forces / "make friends" with the world - all at the same time as all the same old money-pumped tech) but most want to talk to machines...

Tech has it's limit to empower people - YOU empower me and I empower - without either of those ping pong there is not much of a game or building of light trust or of either of us.

So please think to me and others while on Social and follow others like me rather than Trump posts...

That dedication and time attention is what adds up better...

Sorry if this was long, squeezing it in before popping out...

FreeSchool

#QOTO vs. #MastodonSocial (Translation tool and maybe Audio Speaking / Recording) 

I don't mean to compare but you get a "Translate" button on Mastodon.Social via Deepl.com which is great itself and while I'm not for adding too many "tools" or bells and whistles (like AI) this has been a good part of the experience seeing what other people are writing and getting instant translation at a click. :two_button_mouse:

Not nit-picking but to get "world peace" I think we have to push these kinda of things towards social communication + community (something both MastodonSocial & QOTO are lacking as they set out only to mostly let users figure out how to do social practice for themselves with little help but the engine, which is mostly text and pics, and not enough).

Audio messages are needed and could be added although I understand risk - even an AI changing the voice could still preserve the tone and content (whatever it takes for people to ACTUALLY TALK TO EACH OTHER AND *NOT* TEXT!!!!!!!!)

⌨️ ⌨️ ⌨️ ➡️ 🗣️ 🔊 🗣️ 🔁

Thought I'd show others options oF "text translation made easy" simply using another account, and speaking to each other eventually (text and audio).

Much love and community (hoping we grow it).

@d1 There is the nice style of laughter too, where it's in appreciation or feeling warm to the other - though hard to distinguish in defeat by the other.
But yeah the haha in your face isn't nice, but depend on situation I guess...

Today I built a SATA enclosure holding structure out of LEGO for my Raspberry Pi 5. Fun! The Raspberry Pi stays decently cool at 50 degrees Celcius, idling.

#RaspberryPi #Linux #Lego #art

It's time to move on from Social being almost all about hashtags and consuming life in that way...

Although some is needed, we're not each other up or internally by spending there...

Just seeing people's timeline full of that stuff and even spinning more their stuff and "their web" while we're stuck and stunting in our own and social growth (which is whatever you like and love more than bashing Trump or )... right?

You have something better to do...?

:blobwave: (waves hand vigorously)

Picture
"Too much trump time.
Venting comments as a mass
is not always social growth."

@volkris Thanks for reply. What you wrote makes sense.

True to say I'm aiming for more but understand how social is today more towards venting / not so much deep diving / self-solving the actual "social" itself... !

Think I wrote plenty before to that effect and appreciate your use case and happy it works for you in that form, while plenty of improvement to be harnessed (also as people AND instances forging friendships themselves too!).

I like the sentence "If other people see what I write, great! If not, that's OK too." :)

Again, thanks.

And just a passing thought to all the USPol going on:

Maybe it's time to move on from Social being almost all about Trump GOP USPol hashtags consuming time. Although some is needed, we're not building each other up or developing internally by spending time there... (just saying people's timeline is too full of that stuff and even spinning for them their own web while we're stuck and stunting in our web / social growth)

I setup a small #copyparty server for fun !
https://cp.lema.org/

Browse some stuff as guest ... or login with user warez to enter the dark web (not really).

📁 ⬆️ 📁 ⬇️ - Turn Any Device Into a Feature-Rich File Server

github.com/9001/copyparty

⬇️ Features List: ⬇️

🔌 Multi-protocol support: HTTP, , , TFTP, SMB/CIFS for maximum compatibility with any client or operating system

📱 Native app and shortcuts for seamless mobile file management and one-tap uploads

🚀 Resumable uploads and downloads with absolutely no filesize limit - works flawlessly even through proxies

🔄 Smart file deduplication using symlinks, hardlinks, or CoW reflinks to save storage space automatically

🎵 Built-in media player supporting almost every audio format with on-demand transcoding, equalizer, and OS lockscreen controls

🖼️ Automatic thumbnail generation for images, videos, and audio spectrograms using Pillow, pyvips, or FFmpeg

🔍 Powerful full-text search by filename, path, size, date, and MP3/ID3 metadata tags across all indexed volumes

📦 Download entire folders as ZIP or TAR archives with optional on-the-fly audio transcoding to opus/mp3

🔐 Flexible accounts and permissions system with granular per-folder, per-user access control for read/write/move/delete

🌐 Zero-config LAN discovery via mDNS and SSDP - automatically appears in file explorers on Windows, macOS, Linux

📊 Truly cross-platform: Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android, iOS, FreeBSD, ARM32, ARM64, RISC-V, s390x, ppc64le

⚡ Just run github.com/9001/copyparty/rele - single-file self-extracting executable, no installation or setup required

🔒 HTTPS support with automatic certificate handling and reverse-proxy compatibility for nginx, Cloudflare tunnels

📝 Built-in markdown viewer and editor with syntax highlighting and live preview

🎯 QR code generation for quick mobile access - perfect for file sharing at events or between devices

🇳🇴 Made in Norway - actively maintained open source project

Credits to original post info from a multi-threaded msg social.vivaldi.net/@michabbb/1 that I just put in 1 post instead

CC: @michabbb

@ceoln Few from your link: ceoln.wordpress.com/2026/01/31

➡️ “I used to think of the world as layers of power, layers of power stacked above me. The town, the county, the crown, the bankers and brokers and multinationals, the shadowy organizations behind and above them.”

➡️ “And I felt smothered by them, smothered! Unable to move, or breathe, resenting all that piled above me, weighing me down.”

hashtags:

picture = Onion Layers representing power - a half cut onion showing the rings in rings inside or layers inside layers.

:ablobwave: #QOTO people about leaving / people blocking QOTO etc... 

@ceoln Nice to hear from you.
Yes about the (I think it's best not to get mixed up and provide something that builds us between ourselves - even if we look and post about post trump musk bezos etc.

Fediverse needs to self-grow something better else just be a better Twitter with people who still don't know how to learn to love each other / communicate etc...

Happy to hear more from you if you like!

@sproid @itsalark @ebel
Spelling error should say "We have too many lop-sided tech pro's that CAN'T do human stuff."

It said "can" initially but I meant can't!

Without communication in the "other realms" of humanity (rather than pure-tech) it's just incrementing the saga.. :)

@sproid @itsalark @ebel
Spelling error should say "We have too many lop-sided tech pro's that CAN'T do human stuff."

It said "can" initially but I meant can't!

Without communication in the "other realms" of humanity (rather than pure-tech) it's just incrementing the saga.. :)

@skyblond English Translation for this post:

" Wow, it really is a TV drama that finished in 2015. It feels like back in that era, people were still putting effort into writing plots normally. Even though the sixth season wasn't a real ending, the writers still achieved a 9.3/10 standard.

I don't dare to try new shows these days, I'm really afraid they'll start strong and end weak, finally dropping a massive disappointment on everyone. You know, if I start watching, I have to finish it, but then I have to eat shit. If I don't finish it, I feel awkward inside.

I suddenly understand now why older people always reminisce about the old days, even though the past wasn't as wonderful as they remember. "

💸 💲 💰 Paying people to talk? PROJECT / Job ? 💰💲 💰 

💸 💲 💰 Paying people to talk
PROJECT 💰💲 💰

= Community in Mastodon

+ building on Mastodon social also in parallel to audio talking and confirming each other as being ok...

P.S I understand the "scam sound" (risking my own money perhaps) but that is what we can take care of I hope and do it for others to get talking / making friends with the world AND learning our enemy (and ourselves) FASTER as it's becoming more and more the average person so we have a lot to learn about what's supporting the world (, investment. giving / , ) but lots of other types of and people need which can be done over long distance type stuff with audio talks in also...)

🖼️ Picture Credits:

1. www.RandoTalk.com website
(as similar prototype example)

2. Yes Theory - Finding the World's Loneliest Person _zxVcpOzOPY at 06.01

inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_zxVcpO

💸 💲 💰 Paying people to talk
PROJECT 💰💲 💰

= Community in Mastodon

+ building on Mastodon social also in parallel to audio talking and confirming each other as being ok...

P.S I understand the "scam sound" (risking my own money perhaps) but that is what we can take care of I hope and do it for others to get talking / making friends with the world AND learning our enemy FASTER as it's becoming more and more the average person so we have a lot to learn about what's supporting the world (, investment. giving / is what it is quite often but lots of other types of and people need which can be done over long distance type stuff with audio talks in also...)

@sproid @itsalark @ebel
Yeah I agree and my approach with most people is to "filter out" the good people / keep the matching people more often (even though I think all can play a part) so even though talking is nearly non-existent, people can move on and simply try another person if they know they can... which means even with "1 in million chance" or "10 in a billion" we still might be able to get 10 and 1 or 2 trickling through constantly... but the way to filter in I think is the problem always (word of mouth / friends and family talking might be more real for people).

Not a perfect way or covering everyone but accepting enough to do with a few people and see if they are similar / matching / accepting in many ways. Else just say "thanks for the chat" and that's it.

I think a good enough system would help the human side as a way or web interface for to say "this is an open chat 25hours a day" to make it easier for people to talk and say "next!" / make other chat rooms from that...

I agree it's not just algorithms to blame and not easy - I think it's quite the same here on Mastodon too with even the best people chasing the tails of etc - because as worthy as it is it's STILL not a lot of building of community and NOT PERSONAL -

e.g. could actively organise chats in Jitsi but doesn't and leaves people to their untrained state of theirself or think socialising is sending cat pictures on ... so it's a nice engine but not improving people by much when it could daily / month / yearly (at least!)

Wasted talents we are and not even working together as much!

Dveloping tech is different to Developing people and their character in communication - 2 different developments need to happen!)

We have too many lop-sided tech pro's that can do human stuff.

If developing human communication is not for tech people then that's what we have! (I think today that's true, great tech, / -developed people).

Hope I didn't skip any of your thoughts or points or sound like "this is the answer for everyone"...

But I am thinking...

❓ How to make more fun? ❓

🧩 I think this is a puzzle (even if mostly for those that love talking already).

Any ideas how to make it more fun ? Perhaps paying people! :]

( Wait........ Maybe! )

@sproid @itsalark @ebel I think the internet is perfect for talking about anything because it's from distance and has both parts of what Sproid said of feeling sometimes like we are being challenging AND being attacked - AND WE NEED THAT

In the healthy way we can manage personally this as a kind of listening circle team... and 1 to 1 / organised-random.

Challenging and Attacking are basically the more forward-thinking way and win for everyone which might feel lose-lose until we learn better together and even MAKE more places to chat and generally talk until we feel comfortable, almost anonymously too (why not).

This helps the real talking come out and not gated state places in it for the money to 'help' people...

is perfect for talking.
I recommend audio-only as it has enough humanity in that speaking / listening and practise to improve one or both sides)

See hashtag for places to chat.

And ask me if you want to chat about this!

I think it's something everyone / anyone can do from distance... and can help build trust publicly or have a place of feedback.

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