Its really worth trying to ditch some of them. Its a good feeling to not feel like reaching for the phone all the time. If I do, its just a quick look at Voyager, maybe Email (although I use it for very little) and before I know it I’m sitting there with nothing else to open, hovering my finger, or staring at the screen wondering what I will open next. Then I realise theres nothing else there vying for my attention and I out the phone down. Thats a good feeling.

I have found that I spend more time looking at family photos from over the years, which is lovely.

You can do it!

Totally agree. I have been away from all social media for years, with the final two, LinkedIn and Reddit nuked last year. I spent a full year being as helpful as I possibly could on Reddit, in specific subs, went out of the way to help people etc., but fuck me the toxicity in that place was unreal.

I spend very little time on my phone now, with Voyager the only app I use that connects me to communities, i.e. this one, but its still hard to get away from the heavy stuff. I don’t know where people have the time and energy to be so obstructive and challenging. If they put a fraction of that energy into helping people, it would change the world!

Being on the phone less has been great, but its just a pity that the only place I do go is a bit of a challenge at times. There’s so many good people here, its hard for them to keep their heads above the surface at times.

Maybe I need to curate even further!

To be honest, I came here to get away from the toxicity of algorithm driven social media, reddit etc., but I find myself as angered here as anywhere else. While the algorithms play their role in generating anger, I’m finding more and more that people are as much of the problem as anything else.

Yes it’s great that I can tailor my feed to exactly what I want, and that works fine, but it seems they are riddled with disgruntled, pissed off, angry, paranoid people that don’t seem to be happy with anything before them, and seem intent on annoying everyone around them.

It was a breath of fresh air at first. Subscribe to X, Y and Z, only receive updates on X, Y and Z, but it was quickly ruined by the people, not the algorithm.

It’s getting increasingly difficult to exist online now without this toxicity, and we can’t keep blaming the algorithms.

Anyway, maybe I was a bit naive about what to expect, but its disappointing. We are running out if enjoyable spaces to exist in online and thats a shame.

Lol, what I’m hearing is that unless all my family and friends move to a better messaging app, they are dead to me.

Seems legit.

Edit: How many livers have you stolen?

I’ve been using LibreTube and it’s the pure solid finest.

Am I right in understanding that if you move to Session, Element, SimpleX etc., you can still only message people on those particular apps? So if you (say) move to Session and only 5 of your 300 contacts are on it, you can only message those 5 people and have to use WhatsApp for the other 295, because let’s face it, they are probably on that?

I ask because I see so many people say “I moved to X app”, but surely it’s more complicated than that if the critical mass are still on the likes of WhatsApp?

It can’t be as simple as just moving to another app, surely?

Home Assistant have their own device that can provide Thread.

Home Assistant Connect ZBT-2

It does ZigBee also bit you can only run one protocol at a time.

I bought one for yhe exact reason you stated; trying out IKEA stuff. My setup is similar also.

Good luck!

Thanks! Installed!

Do you know what personal info gets landed on their server when you send an Email to a Gmail account? Presumably Email address and name, but is there much more, hidden stuff?

I never actually thought about it from this angle. Moreso about how much they have access to by having a Google account, but not the exposure if yiu Email someone on their servers.

If you are concerned about your information getting on a Google server when you send an Email to a Gmail account, is the issue still the same no matter what provider you use? Or am I misunderatanding? You are still to a Gmail address no?

OK thanks for that. The build is beyond my skills to I’ll wait a while and keep an eye on it in case it becomes available.

Anyone having trouble downloading the APK from the Git page? Tried a couple of browsers.

This is the link text:

https://github.com/getnopeek/nopeek-android

Keeps circling back to the same page.

4 feet deep, based on data from an AI summary on a Google search page.

Seems legit.

I’m not 100% sure if it is what you are looking for but I use Voyager in conjunction with TrackerControl. TC blocks all the trackers.

Although I am curious why on the main screen of TC it says that Voyager contacted one country last week if trackers are blocked.

Apologies if this isn’t what you need, is this am example of a Fediverse client? Is that what you meant?

Sayonara Google.

Thanks for the context, appreciate it.

Isn’t it the case though that no matter what is set up, no matter where it is set up,and no matter what by, that it will eventually become polluted by fools? Broadly speaking.

This is why posts like this raise the spirits a bit.

💚

Honestly, people like you are keeping my faith/interest in being online alive. It’s dying at pace and things like this, that you do, help to keep it alive a bit longer.

This has genuinely made my day better and will make every day I go online just a little bit better.

Thank you genuinely.

Thank you for being great. Ireland appreciates you.

Utterly pointless thread. Drivel. Change your power settings so that you can close the screen and have the machine “do nothing”.

Is this the level of content that is deemed worthy these days? Literally a non-story.