Kind of like how a lot of the same people who were screaming and going crazy about the Patriot Act 20 years ago are the same ones who want to defend Flock cameras.

Yeah, I live in a neighborhood full of trump signs. Bizarre trump or 1776 bumper stickers. I’ll never understand it. Luckily with petrol prices being as high as they are now, he has lost some of his base/cult members but, as you stated, there seems to be roughly 1/3 of people who are just going to stay aboard no matter what.

We had local elections where I live this week too and the candidates who performed best are ones who campaigned solely on “I’m a trump supporting republican” and that was the entire campaign. No talk of policy or plans or wants. Bizarre times.

As an american, I am genuinely curious: are there really that many people in England who are looking over here and saying, “That looks good. Let’s do that”? I don’t understand why Reform is making such huge gains.

In what way(s)? There are a lot of things I like about it from the research I did. I only didn’t get one because of e/OS and the battery life.

Graphene already has a partnership with Motorola now so the assumption is some time (I’ve seen 2027 speculated) we may get a Graphene Phone from Motorola. Mixed feelings about them partnering with a company like that but we’ll see how it goes. I still keep thinking about finally getting a secondhand pixel 10 so I can switch to Graphene from apple.

A Fairphone with GrapheneOS would be the tops

I had not heard of delta.chat so, thanks for suggesting it. It seems promising. I have been keeping my eyes out for a good alternate messenger for when I eventually get a new non-iphone (prob something from Murena) and have been dreading the loss of imessenger. May try to give that one a shot before paying for Threema.

What a fucking div

I’m in and from the US and can confirm it is awful and incredibly taxing on the mental health of the sane.

Yeah I thought this was a rare positive action from him.

Is there a good blog or website or thread anyone knows of that is specifically dedicated to app/website/software alternatives that do NOT implement AI?

That’s specifically what has prevented me from using Mallvad so far. There is so much advertising from them that it seems fishy to me.

Literally in the same position you were in before! I’ve only ever bought mac but I currently have a mini pc in my cart ready to purchase along with a usb drive with multiple Linux options. My mac is still running okay, I just hate how they are built to last seemingly not a really long time, so you can buy the next one which will cost even more yet also have fewer needed plug-ins so that they cal also try to sell you a separate thing that has the plug ins you needed. I really hate apple at this point, to be honest. Excited to get something other than an iphone as my next phone when the time comes too.

As an american, I apologize on behalf of these people. I know things aren’t going great over there for you guys too but I very much want to hop over and not come back.

At least your nonce is being kind of punished a little. Our nonces over here in the US get to keep doing what they were doing like nothing happened.

That’s an interesting point and I think you maybe phrased how I’ve felt about twitter and twitter style social media as compared to lemmy/reddit sites. I agree with you there 100%.

I never really even thought to research that much. I scanned the different instances. I joined into privacysafe.social - it seemed fine. Being that I have only been on it for a few hours and have only followed 9 accounts, I can’t say I’ve noticed many issues regarding my feed at this point. Although I wish I could organize my feed by newest first. It doesn’t seem to be that way by default. I have just had a couple minor bugs with profile pages loading strangely.

Oh wow. That’s great to hear! I have, since commenting, set up an account myself. App seems a little bit buggy but, I don’t plan on being on it a lot. I appreciate the interesting feedback from you and the others who took the time to reply.

Asking genuinely: do people still use Mastodon? It boomed briefly when Musky took twitter but for whatever reason, people decided to go to the data harvesting, ad filled blue sky. I never got either of them but have been recently thinking of mastodon but assumed people don’t still use it.

Always a good time for Love and Rockets. Nice one