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    • Pixelfed for sharing public content
    • Signal (or a similar messaging platform) for private stories / content intended for specific people

    A “private” instagram account or story was never actually private, but that distinction is still helpful when recommending alternatives IMO

    Then you can use something like libredirect with kittygram to view any Instagram only content in a privacy respecting way, like if you open a link







  • Based on the registration applications, I think getting banned is a lot less common than people think. Most people are checking out the fediverse because of other problems on reddit, whether its the ads, bots, monetization related changes, hateful content, privacy concerns, manipulation, trump related concerns, etc

    We do get the occasional “I’m here because I got banned”, but the vast majority is “I’m curious about what this place is like”.

    Now isn’t hard evidence on its own, but I’d also bet that when the first category joins, they’re often looking for a place to vent about their ban. When the second category joins, they rarely announce their newness.




  • I think the disagreement or misunderstanding comes from the premise

    If we had a different world where it was impossible to lie or hide anything, then a lot of our current problems would be gone. Meanwhile a lot of new problems might come up

    In this world, if you can’t enforce that everyone stays completely open and honest, then it is in everyone’s best interest to keep certain pieces of information private


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    We do, but it’s a lot easier to have a personal device that you can bring into lectures and labs, and then take home with you.

    With some classes, it is expected that you have a personal device. There are laptops that you can borrow, but again you need to go in to borrow and return it each day and download/upload your files each time.

    IMO what we need is a student society Linux user group that advocates for classes to drop bad software and confirms that a particular class is ok. This would help non-linux users too since some of the windows-macos-only software is straight up spyware.