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@devnull @Fairphone @WeAreFairphone

I think they are focusing on the welfare of the very poor and vulnerable people who make the raw materials and components of modern smartphones.

But if you're a tech fan you can install alternative OSes on Fairphone 2, so presumably that will be possible for Fairphone 3:

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/operating-systems-for-fairphones/11425

There's also Fairphone's own alternative OS, Fairphone Open:

https://code.fairphone.com/

@devnull @Fairphone @WeAreFairphone

I think they are focusing on the welfare of the very poor and vulnerable people who make the raw materials and components of modern smartphones.

But if you're a tech fan you can install alternative OSes on Fairphone 2, so presumably that will be possible for Fairphone 3:

https://forum.fairphone.com/t/operating-systems-for-fairphones/11425

@intrepidduckling

KolourPaint is pretty good for simple stuff, like a FLOSS version of MS Paint.

@kezzbracey

Yeah, I think @Liberapay use them?

I don't know much about them but they might be a "least worst" alternative?

@jr

Well, it depends on whether you trust your ISP or your VPN more.

Some ISPs (especially larger companies) have an official policy of selling metadata to advertisers.

@jr

Well, I just meant any VPN does this, I was trying to explain what a VPN was in one short phrase.

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@kezzbracey

This is a good question and it has come up before.

If possible, I would go for conventional bank transfers and payment cards. These tend to be heavily regulated, so there's some consumer protection.

Paypal is Peter "Palantir" Thiel's baby, Venmo's privacy is awful (they show all transactions publicly by default, most don't realise this) and that's sort of it AFAIK :blobsad:

@wjmaggos @LPS @prismo @LemmyDev

Prismo considered doing subreddits based on hashtags, but they decided it would be better for each instance being its own subreddit.

Do you wish the Fediverse had a Reddit-style link sharing and discussion system?

There are two in development, Prismo and Lemmy:

Prismo:
@prismo

Prismo source:
https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

Prismo demo instance:
https://prismo.xyz/

Lemmy:
@LemmyDev

Lemmy source:
https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

#Reddit #Alternatives #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation

@Benjaminlj

They're centralised and for-profit. They say they will do nothing bad, and make a lot of noise about it in their marketing, but that's about as useful as Google's "do no evil" promise.

As far as I can tell, there's nothing either technically or legally to stop them turning into another Facebook.

I've just pretty much ignored them.

@Gargron

Startups like Uber etc pretend they are gaining customers through innovation, but all they are really doing is buying market share by providing artificially cheap services, so they can run rivals off the road. When rivals disappear, prices go up.

Stable companies with sustainable business models that treat their employees well are being unfairly squeezed out of the market, unless they too start screwing workers and throwing money away. (See also Amazon and their pee bottles.)

@wjmaggos @prismo @LemmyDev

Federation isn't finished yet, but I think Prismo already lets you follow their users from Mastodon?

If you search for @prismo.xyz you should see some users from that Prismo instance.

Do you wish the Fediverse had a Reddit-style link sharing and discussion system?

There are two in development, Prismo and Lemmy:

Prismo:
@prismo

Prismo source:
https://gitlab.com/prismosuite/prismo

Prismo demo instance:
https://prismo.xyz/

Lemmy:
@LemmyDev

Lemmy source:
https://github.com/dessalines/lemmy

#Reddit #Alternatives #Fediverse #ActivityPub #Federation

@gaperst

You can see how complicated it is by looking for your phone on the list of Lineage compatible models, and then clicking on "installation instructions":

https://download.lineageos.org/

For example, here are the instructions for installing on the Nexus 6:

https://wiki.lineageos.org/devices/shamu/install

Some people will be ok with this, but personally I find this too difficult.