Fuck google and the walled web. Time to help people join the fediverse.

Jitsi Meet, but be aware that unless you are running it on a desktop in a chromium based browser, or its desktop app then it will not have end-to-end encryption as an option.

Oh heck, thanks so much!

We’ll give it a looksee sometime soon 🙂

Awh, thanks for the offer of help, much appreciated!

Awesome, thanks so much!

Thanks so much! There’s so many things saying we should self host, but seemingly no tutorials on how to do so for those of us with no knowledge on how to start, so we really appreciate the link!

Okay, where’s a complete beginners guide on hosting, setting up a server etc, assuming no knowledge?

Not really, closest is Jitsi Meet or Element Call. Personally I think and have experienced video calling on federated services are/as abismal though, you’re better off sticking to centralised like Signal.

Yeah, that’s definitely one of the things they do. However, that’s not the only thing. They have a ‘better than you’ attitude in general and pretty much stick to the status quo.

Yes.

You can, I did and it was fine. It’s really not their job to do it, they really do not have to, as long as they don’t do anything themselves it’s not like an empolyer can prove they’re lying or would even bother wasting their time trying to, at least in our experience. Just keep their heads down and focus on the work they get paid for and nothing else.

The BBC are transphobic assholes that also like to pretend that being ‘unbiased’ is A: possible and B: a good thing. I can see the hatred and judgement dripping and seething through their writing though.

[sarcasm] The solution is obvious then, just don’t love others then. [/sarcasm]

No, but seriously, the best thing is to be stronger, move to platforms etc without control, spying and disgusting incentives and algorithms, and if you truly care for others show them how to use those too.

It’s not easy but it can be done. That’s truly love.

Wow, the checkout workers thinking they have to be cops when they don’t get paid enough anyway. You can just… not.

If you truly want shoplifting to stop more technology will not stop that. The only thing which will is making food free and/or giving people UBI etc.

That or just getting rid of capitalism.

Also, fuck the BBC.

No thanks.

Cowards.

It never hated it, it just hated that it was used against it. Never let up against them, it’s the only way.

and mastodon is still just a copy of twitter with no new features.

That’s what you said, so I was just going off of that.

Oh, when did twitter add CWs that required a clickthrough? The ability to set your own character limit? When did it remove its algorithms to show you posts it considered relevant? When did it become open source? When did it become decentralised and federated? When did it start working on end-to-end encryption for DMs? When did it allow for built in themes?

Thanks for asking!

Well, to give one example: It has a lot of work to do for blind/visually impaired people, at the very least. Most installers do not come with a screen reader or if it does then it often crashes (it also crashes a lot when installed I am told, at least Orca does). Pipewire, which is used primarily for sound, requires major messing with to be used between user sessions as it cares about security over accessibility, and thus is tied to user permissions, unless you modify it to be accessible, which is going to be difficult when things cannot be seen by the user.

There’s a lot of projects for which either patches or the technologies already exist to make things more accessible. However, sadly, a lot of devs prefer new features over fixing things to help make things more accessible. So a lot of people who need such fixes are left behind and thus cannot use linux.

I’m saying that a lot of people cannot switch because linux is not accessible enough, sadly.

Fair enough.

If only linux actually cared about accessibility.