One thing that really pisses me off personally is the #regression in terms of #Messenger #Apps.
My personal distaste and dislike for #proprietary, #SingleVendor & #SingleProvider #services like #Signal ¹ ², #Telegram, #Discord ³ ⁴, #WhatsApp 5, #Slack, #MicrosoftTeams, etc. aside:
WHY is there no #CrossProvider #Messenger to handle that shite?
WHY does everyone of these shitty providers think people want to download their #bloated #WebApp that takes up triple digit Megabytes if not entire Gigabytes and will gobble up all the #RAM and #CPU each of them can??
This problem ain't new and already got solved for corporate social media ages ago! (Not to mention actually good messengers!)
And no, bridges don't count!
I mean API 0 - style access because obviously none of the platforms will allow, endorse or support such an endeavour and actively fight the developers and users !
So yeah, consider this a call for a @gajim / #Gajim or @pidgin / #Pidgin for garbage platforms!
Cuz back in the day we had way worse messengers yet people actually made #AIM, #ICQ, #MSN, #QQ, #IRC & #XMPP work just fine from one single "phat" client!
Can we please get that back? Cuz #WastefulComputing pisses me off!
Please read the original post again:
And no, bridges don't count!
Plus #Matrix is a half-baked shitshow in terms of support and self-hosting with the #Enshittification via #AssholeLicensing killing it.
It just makes me wounder: Are modern messengers these days complicated or do the people who have the talent to write such a #MultiProtocolIM chosen that this is stupid and that like myself they'd never touch that shite in their life and make peace with it?
And I'm not talking about specific #API limitations like #Discord uses to force people to use their garbage client, but like #WhatsAppWeb and others...
Hating doesn't get you far.
#Hating doesn't get you far.
It is strange that pretty much #Everyone - The #Left or #Liberal etc seem more interested (obsessed) in hating or condemning things from a computer.
Possibly because there is less #skin in the game and you don't have to participate further than than, no need reply, get into #conversation, don't have to find more co-operation / #negotiate things of the mind to find #balance etc
So you* end up in the same spot as before. That's why people have to be on social -#discontent
* "you" plural but "you" personal also)
I admit spreading the love and increasing the trust can be harder but that's why those who care are here is it not?
So let's talk... #USPol #UkPol etc
Find a way to #love and not #hate as much. (all can be converted by talking about it between people)
Thanks #FreeSchool
The real #terrorists are in the State
🚀 #FreeSchool
Not saying there aren't good people there but professional liers and false promise-makers - NO they are harming us / terrorizing over years and years even if not a bomb directly.
@micr0 Hi, it you're interested in the answer since I didn't hear anything from @altbot
This altbot replies to the post with #AltText info as follows:
"Provided by @altbot generated privately and locally using Gemma3:27b"
There is a link to "Gemma3:27b" but I'll update when I do another #text and picture post that needs it and copy the link here...
#FreeSchool
Meine IT Sicherheits-Privatsphäre Übersicht für alle :-)
( 05.08.2025
Die weiterentwicklung von #GalyxOS stagniert
wohl erstmal...)
als PDF:
https://cryptpad.digitalcourage.de/file/#/2/file/Kvo0eIWc8SfCJYXTxujy+YlD
sachliches-Feedback wie immer, erwünscht :-)
#Privatsphäre #Datenschutz #sicherheit
#security
#AppStore
#Kryptografie
#Passwort #PasswortManager #Informationssicherheit #Informationsfreiheit #IFG #Politik #Gaming #gog #Lutris #Android
#Mail #Cloud #Browser #WebBrowser #Verschlüsselung #DNS #VeraCrypt #Fdroid #Messenger #Threema #Signal #Linux #Foss #OpenSource #UnplugTrump #Fediverse #Menschenrechte #Community #LinuxHelden
#GamingonLinux #VPN #GegenRechtsHilfe #FediLZ #Mastodon #Shopping #PreppingforFuture #Prepping #Katastrophenvorsorge #Schutzmaßnahmen #supportyourhinterland #Mobilfunk #NewPipe #uBlock #Medienkompetenz #Facebook #Instagram #Meta #YouTube #Chatkontrolle #überwachung #Matrix #Suchmaschine #Tastatur #2FA #Nichtszuverbergen
In 2025, #Trump administration officials—primarily at the Departments of State and Homeland Security—created a mass surveillance program to monitor constitutionally protected speech by noncitizens lawfully present in the U.S. https://www.eff.org/cases/united-auto-workers-v-us-department-state #Fascism #1u
why things don't work totally and evil grows again (because good people don't talk to each other deeper + distance themselves from each other!...)
part of why things don't work in the world is because the good people are simply are not going though the motions to increase #trust and interact to discover people and use them how they want.
So your reasons are justified about evil but doing 0 #interaction online is also not #helping what we need to #build something else!
To some level you are mostly a #fascist ⬅️ if we take it as today's meaning of 'not caring a lot' as #fascistic / part of #fascism who is also not putting the time in towards good people / just spread the bad shit / not finding the good and pumping that up
🏀 shoot some hoops with good people - talk to them! yo!
"I'm intentionally limiting the amount of #personal information in my bio. To be clear, even though there have been changes to the #Constitution over time, some of which I don't agree with, the process established by the Constitution is still the proper way to go about governing as long as the same rules are equally applied and done without #bias or #prejudice. That said, once a governing body (like #SCOTUS of #Congress) has become #corrupt, it is up to citizens to effectuate necessary #change."
💬 We the People #Quotes from #Bio currently + hashtags I've added to some words
@PattyHanson
❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
❓ #Fascism ❓= anything "Bad" ❓❓❓ + #AntiFa / #AntiFascist = All Good ❓❓❓
#Fascism = anything "Bad" ⁉️❓
(modern day version incorrectly used)
#Fascistic is better (perhaps but still sometimes too generally...)
#AntiFascist / #AntiFa also a good thing
...but too broadly used by those who generally don't know what it means (to others who also don't know but might accept it as 'bad' which it might be but not specific enought)... similar to #AntiFa or Anti-Fascist - which maybe everyone wants to be but really can't care enough when it comes down to it to do it all themselves / #DIY. It's #virtuesignalling which I accept a #virtuesignal is part of trying and helps accept things enough to try more levels of.
Debate welcome on this #audio...
@mhalano I self host it on a Debian box at Hetzner, and run ListMonk to run the list.
https://listmonk.app/
Big cheers to our friends in the US doing their #NoKings protests!
Defenders Of Democracy Artwork
NEW! Check out this wonderful hilarious Defenders Of Democracy AI free original artwork from artist Edgar Walthert @eWalthert!
Free to use. Pass it on! Promote here and on other social media.
Link to PDF: https://ewalthert.com/*/DefendersOfDemocracy.pdf
We went to #NoKings with my mother-in-law. Her father was in a Nazi prison camp as a resister, & survived. She & her husband escaped Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, traveled by ship from Germany to NY as refugees. Arrived in NY harbor in the morning fog, which lifted to reveal, the Statue of Liberty. 🇺🇸
Protest works.
Keep it up, Frogs and unicorns.
🐸 🦄
"Free School" is a movement and hashtag continuing the 60's & 70's practice of educational living and learning life together towards #DIY & #Caring (at the same time).
#FreeSchool or https://qoto.org/web/tags/freeschool = #Fediverse #Notes #Quotes #Books #Videos #Talks #Websites towards #Freedom
#FreeSchool is my continuation as living personal collection of post gems and quotes that offer people's one-line summary with short CW titles and then longer forms of writing optionally with "show more" button
Hashtags +#AltText when I remember) and now I'm using a Bot in 2025 which reminds me when I haven't added AltText.
If you want a great film documentary which I like almost 100%, then below is a story towards humanity by showing Capitalism and personal experience of it's effect locally.
Capitalism - A Love Story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism_A_Love_Story
Download here (411mb torrent link)
https://thepiratebay10.info/torrent/5380184/Capitalism.A.Love.Story.2009.DVDRip_H264 (Have uBlock installed to block popups)
I think we can solve most of it ourselves (we don't need to wait forever for leaders and rich people to change because they won't and they already decided!)... IF ONLY we start talking together then we can do it and snowball good things on Fedi!
Getting higher in our own personal understanding and more together is 'the better way'.
FreeSchool is an #Art of #Life of sorts in whatever way that suits and directs the individual towards more community and freedoms.
More in this post here...
https://qoto.org/@freeschool/112186767286933459
I welcome audio chats. Simple chat can be done using browser only - 3 clicks an in - just using just browser - no install, no account, no google - instant! #Jitsi chat is better than #Matrix for it's speed (opensource, community used for many years.) Just ask me for a link.
I'm someone who #Cares for people and planet, but wise enough to know tricks of the trade.
The real work now is about better humans, so when you give them hammers they don't damage the place .... we have to accept mistakes and not be too scared of people either.
Enough of the material work, time to work on the mind, care at the same time as ALL work...
#FreeSchool ➡ Try to Work Together 🔁
➡ Increment Peace, Trust "slowly but surely"...
Doesn't have to be all-in... ☮