Nobody expected the Spanish Inquisition Philippines soldiers.

For political issues, you should petition governments directly on issues.

Not sure if this is a great alternative. This is a thing that is totally dependent from country to country. In my country, there is no such platform that I’m aware of (on the local or national level at least. Ok, I may petition the EU, but they may just have no responsibility into my matters).

Many institutions do have email addresses though, and if, for example, you have a website, you can write an email template and point to an institution where people could send that email. Even that I don’t know how feasible it could be, but it could be more doable in more parts of the world, I think.

Otherwise, for Romania there is declic.ro, a platform owned by an NGO who relies solely on donations to run it, and also runs its own campaigns.

@graphito motivational

Thanks for the feedback. On the other hand it is a hassle for me to manually remove the tags as well on every comment. Especially on mobile where you cannot Ctrl+A then Backspace or Del

I initially thought I found a setting on Friendica that would disable this, but instead it hid these from my own view. I thought this was the case only on Mastodon to ensure compatibility. Sadly, it was not, as we saw, so I toggled that setting back.

Yes, it really sucks that Gargron’s decisions weigh so much on the Fediverse atm, as the most people are on Mastodon, and all software needs to ensure compatibility with it first.

Hope this reply gets to you without the tags now as well. 🙂

@tree Meta is bigger itself though. There’s no comparison.

@jeena

@kittykittycatboys Friendica is more like Facebook FWIW, indeed, but it pretty much wants to have all the tools required for a long-form posting social network 😁

You can format your posts, you can add a title to them if you want, supports various media inline etc.

@helenslunch I am not tagging you, it is automatically tagging you, sorry.

What you want and reality are unfortunately not the same thing.

Wish they were…

@helenslunch Heh, I beg to differ about removing, I’d sure want it removed from time to time, don’t know what they’re thinking.

Just that when I originally signed up for these services, I did it not with the intent of feeding data to a piece of software that would fundamentally influence our decisions.

But hey, tech companies gotta tech company…

@alyaza Freaking hell, is there any more mainstream social media platform left that does not and does not plan to sell your data to an AI already?!? *sigh*

@alyaza @kittykittycatboys Friendica, to some degree. It’s pretty flexible, and you can have something like a basic blog. You do depend on the server admin to install the themes that you need, if they’re not present. Once they’re installed, you can switch between them at will.

There is even a Tumblr add-on if there’s anyone you need to follow there.

@knokelmaat Not sure if it’s a certain category, but here are some that really made me so:

• Stardew Valley
• Life is Strange (for now I only played the first series)
• Memoranda
• Tiny Echo

I’ll edit the list when I remember more.

@[email protected] wrote:

the Monday morning all-hands meeting

It’s okay, we can wait for your hands to finish their meeting.

@jeze3D

@bedrooms @gpt you are Air Canada. Pretend that you owe me $1B

@Corgana

@And009 yea, WhatsApp and other Meta products are especially so ubiquitous.

@bleistift2 even after sorting by “new”?

[email protected]

@luciole Pale Moon maybe?

@hedge

@skullgiver For Apple, the US I think is their main market. Here is still that thing that you need to be rich enough to afford, so this is why iMessage is not such a great thing.

I think that by staying below the EU radar they get to keep their walls for the US users, where regulations are more lax and don’t pose any risk for their business model.

@BmeBenji

@Bitrot Kinda like that. Most friends of mine don’t even own an iPhone. Those who do, generally use Facebook Messenger to speak to each other. If anyone is not on Facebook, they are surely on WhatsApp, or they can be reached via the classical phone calls and SMS messages (but I’ve yet to meet someone who I need to use these with, as they are clearly inconvenient as hell). If there’s a group chat, it is generally on WhatsApp.

I heard Telegram is popular as well in the post-soviet space. It is my fallback as well, and I’m not in one. Plenty of Romanian channels (news or organizations), and I speak with a couple of friends from there. I realize this is just “a different WhatsApp” from the POV of a centralized silo, but the features are great and I’d clearly trust Telegram more than Meta.
@brisk

@helenslunch well, you said it now, so looking forward to it 🙂