yes, things like age/gender/location/etc are the things that aren’t private on reddit but mostly are on fediverse. your instance admin could see your IP and use GeoIP for location but that’s it, a simple VPN can solve that. and unlike reddit where they do targeted ads and resell data, fedi instance operators are mostly hobbyists and I doubt that really happens… if you’re really worried you could just use throwaway accounts with a vpn and remain private.

i mean it’s partially true… many of those weird android tv boxes have spyware loaded onto them, mostly for botnet/residential proxies and sometimes infostealers.

you wouldn’t download a television

you’re on a public forum and writing posts/comments in public which is pretty obvious, so i don’t see how that’s ‘no better’ than reddit. your votes are also public but that’s just how the fediverse works. unlike reddit everything’s (literally) transparent here, modlogs and everything.

i think it was less than 50GB but my memory is hazy… it’s in my backup drive somewhere, i’ll make a post here if i get to upload it

for mobile distros theres also droidian (basically mobian with downstream kernel and halium) and maemo leste (continuation of nokia’s maemo fremantle)

unfortunately i can’t get new batteries, the battery life isn’t good but it’s usable as i don’t really use my phone much. also have 6 replacable batteries that i carry sometimes.

for now my group will migrate to zulip and their app works on my phone, i was just trying to attempt xmpp too since it’s always great to have more options (and possibly setup xmpp as a backup to the zulip room with matterbridge on physically distant server)

cydia.vn and repo.hackyouriphone.org are the ones i use(d), seems like HYI is down rn, maybe gone? I do have a full backup from 2022 and they haven’t had updates in years so guess i should share it somewhere…

it runs like crap on my phone since it’s 12 years old. conversations.im works but it’s features can’t completely replace discord, at least for my friends.

thanks. i guess it’s as good as the other electron/web based clients on desktop, but on mobile is PWA okay to use? my phone is too old and suffers with everything but well optimized native apps, so my experience doesn’t match others’.

weird, try changing archive.is to archive.md or archive.today. /latest/{url} redirects to the latest for that url, and /{url} redirects to the list of captures for that url

i believe it really depends on the region you’re on sadly :(

i live in a fairly small country and i usually source my drives from a marketplace in some server related internet forum, maybe there’s something similar. i guess you gotta try stuff like ebay, facebook marketplace or your equivalent local 2nd hand market platform.

lol no, these smart watches are powerful as older smartphones, their stock os is already android/linux based.

fyi you can just do something like https://archive.is/latest/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-02-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-israeli-firms-are-leading-the-surveillance-race/0000019c-6651-d2f0-a19c-7fdd81920000

KeePassXC ftw

with the lack of persistent text chat

i was under the impression their UX is just like discord and they use the matrix protocol underneath, seems like it’s not :( that’s a dealbreaker… thanks for sharing

if you tried TS6 may i ask how it was? it still seems to be in beta and i couldn’t find any easy setup guide or demo…

the clients still feel extremely buggy to use and has poor ux, there are too many frictions overall. surely it works for some people, but it feels not optimal for me. i even tried it with a quite techie friend once and they had extremely bad experience with it that they’re now skeptical of any alternative chat systems i ask them to try out with…

my solution is Zulip/XMPP/IRC/Jitsi, none of them can replace every functions of discord but they partially can and it seems like they’ll work for my use case.

based as always