@JoeyPajamas@foss_android@books
Your worries are perfectly fine. I would say that being open source is what makes Openreads so great. The app is licensed as GPLv2 so everyone can use it and modify it forever. Not like other proprietary apps that the second they stop making profit can be closed with no option to migrate to any other service.
My projects for the #FallFinishAlong! Left to right: 2x2 rib hat, purely for knitting belt practice. Sleeves for a baby cardigan. #Sarkle jumper for my mum, lower hems on provisional cast on so I can make them just so, only she’s on the other side of the continent now and can’t try it on… Rainbow booties for a second baby. Heel turn and foot of a sock.
I tried #kbin early and decided to delete my account because it was a little too beta for me. But account deletion wasn't working at the time, so I decided to give it more time. And it only got better.
Weeks later (and long forgotten) @ernest himself emails to tell me that deletion is working now, sorry, do you still want to delete?
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You will NOT get this kind of integrity from the likes of Reddit.
@limebar I try to fix my previous failures. Before deleting any account with any activity, I prefer to confirm it first. In the process, I can sometimes understand the reasons behind the decision and try to fix it. It takes a bit more time, but I think it's worth it ;p
Soon, the process will be fully automated through confirmation via a link that will be sent to email.
The existence the #NDA itself can not be part of the secret information covered by the NDA.
This last is perhaps the most insidious. Once you have agreed not to disclose that you have an agreement, then they have you. What's more the existence of secret agreements destroys trust everywhere because it can not be known who is a party to the secret agreement and who is not.
The fact that #Meta is approaching the #Fediverse in this manner is very telling.
Federated wireguard network idea
Any feedback welcome.
Let's keep things stupidly simple and simply hash the domain name to get a unique IPv6 ULA prefix.
Then we would need a stupidly simple backend application to automatically fetch pubkeys and endpoints from DNS and make a request to add each others as peers.
Et voilà, you got a worldwide federated wireguard network resolving private ULA addresses. Sort of an internet on top of the internet .
The DNS entries with the public IPv4 / IPv6 addresses could even be delegated to other domains / endpoints which would act as reverse proxy (either routing or nesting tunnels) for further privacy.
Maybe my approach is too naïve and there are flaws I haven't considered, so don't be afraid to comment.
I made this feature request to IVPN. I doubt IVPN will make it happen but I also did it to get the idea out there. I do think IVPN clients are the best FOSS VPN clients on the market and the idea was to fork IVPN desktop and mobile clients and modify them to bee these universal VPN clients were any VPN provider can integrate these clients into their service. This way a user can subscribe to a few or several VPN providers and access them all in one client, easy to add providers in the client. All a user needs to do is add a URL or IP address in the subscription settings of the VPN client, and login to the VPN account and from there the VPN client will import the VPN servers that VPN providers has and always keep them up to date when the VPN providers adds or remove servers.
Also such an idea will ensure there is a one, secure and fully open source VPN client that works with many VPN providers, and VPN providers do not need to spend time and money developing their own clients for desktop and mobile, and can instead spend time and money on their service and servers. VPN providers can contribute to the universal VPN client if they so wish.
TOR lets journalists do their job safely from dangerous places, lets whistle-blowers report things we should know, and lets people in oppressive regimes see the rest of the Internet that their government blocks. It’s an amazing tool.
Hello Fediverse. I'm posting this tonight from my federated Flipboard profile! We're now testing our #ActivityPub integration starting with my account. You can follow me here to see all the stories I'm curating about things like startups, photography and of course, the #Fediverse. Curious to hear your thoughts on how this is working. We’ll incorporate your feedback as we make more progress on federating Flipboard. Stay tuned for lots more soon.
@PhilipKing@shlee I've been working on the app this whole time, the latest release is just a few days ago.
It may not seem like I'm focusing on it because many of the upcoming improvements have taken months of work and will be shipping around the same time, in the next week or two.
Push Notifications, Stories, Faster Feeds, Device Settings, Loops, Video Camera, Channels and Hashtag Follows/Shares in Home Feed are the biggest features that are due for release soon.
Way more interesting and healthy fediverse news is happening in the shadows and is barely getting discussed! Which is: Discourse has federation between different instances of itself and other #fediverse software such as Mastodon working!
@liaizon Stuff like this will make engaging with new online groups much easier - no need to create a new account for every single place you want to comment at.
I moderate a forum (it uses nodebb) and spam is always a concern, but then the fediverse concept of distributed server moderation and banning entire untrusted servers should help to alleviate that somewhat.