https://raddle.me/wiki/podcasts

It’s Going Down / The Beautiful Idea is a good one that hasn’t been mentioned.

I’d be interested. I’ve checked out parts of it over the years but haven’t looked at most of it.

I’d be willing to give it a try. They can be frustrating at times, but to me it’s not really worse than with liberal instances. I’d understand if the community here doesn’t want to put up with them though.

I haven’t checked it out in a couple years, but I remember there being several decent communities over there. But their more authoritarian communities are pretty shitty.

Found some osm peertube channels:

• https://peertube.wtf/c/martijn_does_openstreetmap

• https://diode.zone/c/contrapunctus_osm

• https://spectra.video/c/mapping

• https://peertube.openstreetmap.fr/ (french)

• https://tube.grin.hu/c/openstreetmap (hungarian)

I love how anteaters and sloths used to be lumped together with primates in the 1740s.

I really don’t like the idea of citing this study. It’s always this same one from the 90s, and if it were acurate I expect the results would have been reproduced more. It’s also not clear that the results indicate what the paper says. There’s other reasons than sexual arousal that could explain the results. It could be they’re imagining the scenario and are axious or disgusted by it. There’s this paper that indicates homophobia is usually caused by fear or hate.

I don’t like the idea of putting the blame for homophobia on closeted queer people. It’s seems extremely likely to me that most homophobic people are straight, since most people are straight. Also we should respect other people’s own identification instead of trying to force labels on people, even if they’re bigots.

I don’t have a good enough grasp on the topic to fully vouch for the site, but I’ve found pluralpedia.org really useful and interesting.

I think he’s literally talking about investing in fediverse companies, which I guess isn’t really any better.

For android I tend to like Safe Notes. It’s relatively simple, encrypted with either passphrase or biometrics, and stored locally, with a way to back up to a file. Just make sure you memorize/save the passphrase so you don’t lose your entries. It’s android only though, if that matters. I only use it for shorter stuff, so I’m not sure how well it works for longer entries.

JShelter isn’t mainly for spoofing, it’s about blocking a bunch of potentially harmful advanced javascript features, often used for tracking. Any spoofing is mostly to keep sites working with the missing javascript features.

I have it installed on one of my browsers. I wouldn’t recommend using it unless you’re willing to tweak the settings for new sites you visit, because I’ve had it break sites pretty often with the default settings.

That’s at a very different level. With dot social it’s about a quarter of the active users on the fediverse, whereas bluesky is probably something like 95% centralized in practice. It seems to keep improving, but right now it’s basically impossible to use without mostly interacting with bsky.

I want to add that it’s not just the idea of equality, it’s also an analytical framework and a social movement. Feminism includes ways to understand patriarchal systems, as well as methods of dismantling them.

🤟I like you for who you are.

I rarely use them myself, but I find emojis linguistically fascinating. There’s a lot of subtleties with sarcastic, ironic, or symbolic emojis, as well as different subcultures that use them differently.

You might want to check out mbin or piefed. They both handle hashtags better than lemmy, which mostly just ignores hashtags other than the community name.

Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There’s also XMPP. It’s not quite the same as discord, but it’s another federated chat protocol.

It’s not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

The’re not meaningless. There’s plenty of stronger strategies if you can coordinate them, but protests are still useful, and easier to get people started on.

Even if it doesn’t have an immediate effect, protests help get people connected and organized. They find others in their area they can work with, and groups learn to coordinate with each other better. It can inspire people seeing how many others agree with them, and get them more active and engaged.

@[email protected] made a browser addon for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lemmy-language-memorizer/

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn’t really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

There’s pinetta that’s inspired by pinterest, but the repo hasn’t been updated in a couple years.

Sorted them into a few categories

Social

• Cheogram - xmpp chat, can also handle phone and sms gateways

• Fedilab - my preferred fediverse app for mastodon

• Jerboa - preferred lemmy app

• K-9 Mail - email

• Pixelix - pixelfed app. not sure if I like this or PixelDroid better yet

Media

• AntennaPod - podcasts

• Kiwix - offline copies of useful wikis, q&as, archives, etc.

• Librera FD - books

• NewPipe - watch youtube videos, although google keeps trying to break it

• Voice - audiobooks

Security

• Aegis - two factor authentication

• KeePassDX - password management

• WG Tunnel - VPN connection, still not sure if this is the best option

Notes and Documents

• Orgzly Revised - note taking. for people not familiar with emacs something like logseq or safe notes might be better

• Pinkt - bookmarks

• Syncthing-Fork - synchronize files between devices

System

• F-Droid - technically it can install itself

• Lawnchair - alternative home screen / app launcher

• ntfy - runs in the background, handles push notifications for some other apps

• Unexpected Keyboard - has the fancy keys that most android keyboards leave out

Other Tools

• Fennec - basically firefox

• Organic Maps - sometimes missing info and it doesn’t have traffic data. simpler than OsmAnd

• PocketPaint - make art on your phone

• QuickDict - offline multi-language dictionary

I’ve got hundreds more installed, but those are some of my favorites.

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