I got into free and open source software to help preserve my privacy, so I’m pretty ambivalent about a FOSS surveillance platform.

prompts every time you try to send or receive an explicit image on a messaging app

Does this mean they caved in to the UK’s client-side scanning stuff after all?

I guess the ‘yolk’ is on me.

It’s a chicken-and-egg scenario. The famous people want everyone to already be on the platform waiting for them.

I use Pixelfed to look at nice art and photography and don’t feel much need for the people I know to be using it. Mastodon could be quite cool though

Ok, so am I understanding correctly that for example the .py can be anywhere, as long as it is run from a suitable venv folder and the path to it is defined in the command?

Good question. I’m quite familiar with the terminal, but I still get confused by things in it that I’m not familiar with, if that makes sense!

Thanks for the help! For some reason tab autocompletion doesn’t work for me but that’s an issue for another day…

put the .py file in the right place to run inside the venv

This could be where I’ve been getting lost. How do I figure out what the right place is?

Great choice. And if you do ever find yourself in a hurry for the latest version of something, there is flatpak and appimage.

It is a wonderful time to be a Linux user.