My particular instance (sdf.org) is a pretty old-school nerdy place. So I like our local discussions. But I do like having the addition of what you propose too.
My particular instance (sdf.org) is a pretty old-school nerdy place. So I like our local discussions. But I do like having the addition of what you propose too.
This was the original premise of app.net - a social service from years back. They built a “social backbone”. They offered you a single place where your identity and friends were housed. Other people could build apps on top of the backbone.
So you would join say a clone of Instagram and all your friends were still there. And your account still worked. Or they had a Twitter clone. Same deal. It was a single sign-on social account/identity/social graph that was separate from the apps. So things could just plug in.
Worked great. But it was a paid service. And came out right at peak Facebook so it died off.
I’m using the ivory app on iOS to interact with Mastodon so I can’t say for sure. But performance has been great for me. I even pay for extra SDF services.
something tech-centric.
Might I suggest SDF? They are a long running tech community that started as public UNIX access.
Anything involving crypto needs to be nuked from orbit, just to be sure.
Knowing what a jerk Jack Dorsey is though, I’m steering clear.
Agreed, I use it on my mac!
PiHole blocks by preventing certain domains from loading (the ones you specify on your blocklist). It’s not examining any content. It simply sees a request for say examplespamdomain.com and blocks it when something on your network requests it. Youtube serves ads and videos from the same domain, so this approach doesn’t work.
I’m using https://browse.feddit.de to find them. The search box has been getting a workout from me. Copy the link of the community, paste it in the search box, and then you can join it even if it lives somewhere else.
I’ve found https://browse.feddit.de to be super helpful in finding communities to join, even cross server, which is cool.
On iOS at least, you can just tap the translate button.
The article is basically just a long unsubstantiated rant though.