I had looked to possible anonymous payment methods for Proton and found nothing before.

I asked because you were making a claim against what I had found. Not my fault you made a false claim without proof

I don’t see any anonymous payment methods on this page.

Tuta has a 3rd party provider that you can send cash or Monero to and get a gift card to pay for your account.

Mullvad will directly take cash and Monero.

I don’t see anything suggesting that Proton does anything similar

Because of this comment

People in CA and CO: this shit is why people hate your states. Get better politicians ffs.

the haute bourgeoisie. The 1% of the 1%.

The painful irony being that the bourgeoisie were still below the nobles

Is there a link you could share?

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you can’t review what’s running on the actual server, what did your local admin add to it.

You could level that accusation at any software running on a remote server, including the Fediverse

Keep in mind that OP’s project is already based on a different protocol than the Fediverse for their own reasons. Trying to create and maintain a bridge between different protocols might be more work than to just make modifications to posts in the current system.

Other factors are end user experience and branding. Keep in mind that the average Facebook/NextDoor user isn’t tech-savvy, and could also be put off by the weird software names commonly found in the Fediverse

It’s likely worthwhile for OP to look into flohmarkt, but integration might not be the optimal method

It’s lighthouses in low earth orbit.

I definitely wouldn’t call geostationary orbit “low”

Another idea you could potentially add down the line: what about functionality similar to Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace? Those tend to work by helping you focus on your local area as opposed to EBay.

Granted, Craigslist is largely fine imo, I’m just proposing a way to help you kill off Facebook

Reading through your link, it seems like the main difference in your framework is that there’s auto-propogation of federation built in. Please correct me if I missed anything

Unrelated point: before you throw too much time and effort into building up federation, I want to bring something in the Matrix vs. XMPP debate: caching.

Apparently in Matrix, if a user on server A joins a chatroom on server B, then all of the content on the chatroom need to then be copied and synced to server A. There’s 2 primary problems with this: it’s a lot of duplication overhead that can limit scaling of the network and there’s legal consequences for server A caching potentially illegal content. There’s also a privacy concern as this means more parties that can see various interactions.

XMPP gets around these problems by having the user on server A just directly connect with server B, without server A caching anything.

I haven’t dug into too many of the differences myself, but wanted to bring it up in case it helped

Though I will not be using ActivityPub

If you don’t mind my asking, what drove the decision to not base it on ActivityPub? On the surface that seems to be an easier starting point that building evetything out from scratch

I predict that being a hard sell for lemmings.

Eh, if it’s an open-source application where you can review the code to confirm that the software isn’t tracking you, then it’s not an issue. Especially if you’re running Graphene OS, Rethink DNS, or Exodus to either sandbox or monitor your traffic

I thought that was the only protocol that currently allows for federation. Are there others? Or other ways?

The Matrix and XMPP protocols both support federation, though those are mainly for chat platforms

It’s open-source and self-hostable, so it’s for any group

Tbh, not a huge fan of the pick. I had various Motorola Droid phones for years before switching to Samsung. All of the Droids were horribly underpowered after 2 years and the batteries only had 1/2 of their original capacity by that point. Then I got a Samsung S10e and it lasted 5+ years.

I seriously hope Motorola has gotten rid of their planned obsolescence policy in the past few years. It’s nice that there’s going to be a second vendor option for GrapheneOS soon, but I wish it was a better vendor

yeah, I think the email is probably fake and made for internet points / humor

Eh, you’d be surprised at how far some people will go to criticize women in STEM fields. It’s not everyone, and I doubt it’s even a majority, but there’s enough that I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.

Or maybe the OOP is a mathematical Lisa Frank. Idk

Eveny single website running should do this, and refuse to display for Californians

Tbf, there’s options that are just as secure and don’t require a phone # to register, but that doesn’t make Signal bad