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Discussion Ethically Online
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I'm in the process of creating email on my domain, I'm trying to create one email for each use case.
Like I want something that is tied to funding like Patreon and such, business, social media and even a fully private one. I dont just want to make a "business@lepertti.com" since that would be little boring.
But I have no idea what to actually call them lol, I keep making emails and deleting them since they dont feel right.
Like I want something that is tied to funding like Patreon and such, business, social media and even a fully private one. I dont just want to make a "business@lepertti.com" since that would be little boring.
But I have no idea what to actually call them lol, I keep making emails and deleting them since they dont feel right.
I think most of them can be boring, especially if you're only using them to register for things and not sharing them with the public. You could even just make them a random string so you're not attached to the address if they sell your data to someone and the email is forever tainted by spam bots.
Public-facing ones can be a bit more exciting, like letstalk@lepertti.com
Public-facing ones can be a bit more exciting, like letstalk@lepertti.com
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Yeah something like that is what I was thinking about, at some point I tried out moshimoshi@lepertti.com looool
All of them are essentially going to be public facing. Thats why I am brainstorming in overdrive to find good ones.XD
Late to the party as I've not been visiting these parts regularly but what a fantastic thread and so much useful info 
Definitely worrying news about Switzerland as I've been slowly migrating my stuff from Googoo to Proton.
Installed Zen to check it out because it's so pretty lashman
Still wondering what search engine to use, DuckDuckGo used to be pretty bad for me last time, Kagi is paid so I installed the free version to check it out but I already see they also have a bunch of ai stuff included ("use AI to filter out AI images" XD). Has anyone tried Brave Search? I know Brave come with their own baggage but maybe it's at least good.
Definitely worrying news about Switzerland as I've been slowly migrating my stuff from Googoo to Proton.
Installed Zen to check it out because it's so pretty lashman
Still wondering what search engine to use, DuckDuckGo used to be pretty bad for me last time, Kagi is paid so I installed the free version to check it out but I already see they also have a bunch of ai stuff included ("use AI to filter out AI images" XD). Has anyone tried Brave Search? I know Brave come with their own baggage but maybe it's at least good.
Yeah coming up with anything public facing is tough, I still haven't picked a domain.
Hell, my username I just randomly picked from a huge physical dictionary. Just flipped to a random page and pointed at a word. Actually technically I picked two words at the time (Major Parsnip) but eventually dropped the Major part partially because people kept shortening it to Major instead of Parsnip, and I didn't like that.
For most of my current emails that are not really public facing I've actually been using bitwarden passphrase generator, it just gives me 5 words and I keep generating until I see a "good" word pair that's not annoying to write.
Hell, my username I just randomly picked from a huge physical dictionary. Just flipped to a random page and pointed at a word. Actually technically I picked two words at the time (Major Parsnip) but eventually dropped the Major part partially because people kept shortening it to Major instead of Parsnip, and I didn't like that.
For most of my current emails that are not really public facing I've actually been using bitwarden passphrase generator, it just gives me 5 words and I keep generating until I see a "good" word pair that's not annoying to write.
Late to the party as I've not been visiting these parts regularly but what a fantastic thread and so much useful info
Definitely worrying news about Switzerland as I've been slowly migrating my stuff from Googoo to Proton.
Installed Zen to check it out because it's so pretty lashman
Still wondering what search engine to use, DuckDuckGo used to be pretty bad for me last time, Kagi is paid so I installed the free version to check it out but I already see they also have a bunch of ai stuff included ("use AI to filter out AI images" XD). Has anyone tried Brave Search? I know Brave come with their own baggage but maybe it's at least good.
I use Startpage for search.
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Finally created Matrix/Elements account, since Discord is in full enshittification mode
So I installed Bazzite yesterday in my continued attempt to move away from corporations owning me. It's definitely gonna take some getting used to and there's apparently a scroll wheel bug that annoys me but overall it's been a surprisingly smooth transition.
I've also gotten closer to moving away from Windows, yesterday I uninstalled a bunch of games and shrunk my main partition so that I can fit it in an older secondary 500gb sata ssd and migrated the Win10 install there. So now I have a 2tb primary boot nvme drive just waiting for me to plop a linux on it. Still hemming and hawing between couple distros, but I'm mostly leaning towards CachyOS at the moment.
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A few days ago I moved over to codeberg for version control. Feels like the more ethical choice over GitHub.
Think I have most bases covered now, I have my emails, discord alternative, version control, YouTube backups, mastodon, my own blog engine.
Next step is settling on search engine and browser. I use duck duck go now and for browser Im leaning towards vivendi
Think I have most bases covered now, I have my emails, discord alternative, version control, YouTube backups, mastodon, my own blog engine.
Next step is settling on search engine and browser. I use duck duck go now and for browser Im leaning towards vivendi
I may switch back to Safari while I am in the Apple ecosystem.
There are features and apps that hook into Safari features that will be far more beneficial to me privacy-wise than a third party browser will be.
Password and bookmark sync won't be used, however. I'll stick to Proton and my own self-hosted bookmarking app for that.
As for search engines though, I am 100% Kagi all the way. Yes, I pay monthly for it, but the results are also better than Google.
There are features and apps that hook into Safari features that will be far more beneficial to me privacy-wise than a third party browser will be.
Password and bookmark sync won't be used, however. I'll stick to Proton and my own self-hosted bookmarking app for that.
As for search engines though, I am 100% Kagi all the way. Yes, I pay monthly for it, but the results are also better than Google.
Having tried the free Kagi trial it was easily the best search engine I've used.
I'm fairly sure I've finally decided on a domain name. Was brainstorming earlier in the week and came up with some options that are available and put them on a txt file so I don't forget and to also sit on them and stew them a bit and see if I still like them in a few days. So we might have a winner.
Porkbun seems like a well liked registrar these days. I used namecheap last time I had a domain and they were totally fine but I have no loyalty or anything to them. So I guess I'll probably go with porkbun. It's also a pretty solid name, porkbun I mean. They clearly need to teach lessons on how to come up with good domain names.
It does occur to me that since I'm not really planning to have a homepage, just a domain for emails, not sure how that actually works in practice. In the past I've always done the opposite, no emails, just a webpage.
Is the webpage just going to be like a placeholder thing, or maybe I should redirect it to my social media or something. I guess I could make it a simple static page or something too if I really feel like it. I could probably get hosting for cheap (and by cheap I mean free) from a friend if I wanted to.
Porkbun seems like a well liked registrar these days. I used namecheap last time I had a domain and they were totally fine but I have no loyalty or anything to them. So I guess I'll probably go with porkbun. It's also a pretty solid name, porkbun I mean. They clearly need to teach lessons on how to come up with good domain names.
It does occur to me that since I'm not really planning to have a homepage, just a domain for emails, not sure how that actually works in practice. In the past I've always done the opposite, no emails, just a webpage.
Is the webpage just going to be like a placeholder thing, or maybe I should redirect it to my social media or something. I guess I could make it a simple static page or something too if I really feel like it. I could probably get hosting for cheap (and by cheap I mean free) from a friend if I wanted to.
I'm fairly sure I've finally decided on a domain name. Was brainstorming earlier in the week and came up with some options that are available and put them on a txt file so I don't forget and to also sit on them and stew them a bit and see if I still like them in a few days. So we might have a winner.
Porkbun seems like a well liked registrar these days. I used namecheap last time I had a domain and they were totally fine but I have no loyalty or anything to them. So I guess I'll probably go with porkbun. It's also a pretty solid name, porkbun I mean. They clearly need to teach lessons on how to come up with good domain names.
It does occur to me that since I'm not really planning to have a homepage, just a domain for emails, not sure how that actually works in practice. In the past I've always done the opposite, no emails, just a webpage.
Is the webpage just going to be like a placeholder thing, or maybe I should redirect it to my social media or something. I guess I could make it a simple static page or something too if I really feel like it. I could probably get hosting for cheap (and by cheap I mean free) from a friend if I wanted to.
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what about VSCodium?
VSCodium - Open Source Binaries of VSCode
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hmh very interesting ! I want to distance myself from Microsoft so this would still be connected to them in a way, but enough that I might actually use that.what about VSCodium?
VSCodium - Open Source Binaries of VSCode
Free/Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VSCode
The only coding I do outside of godot is in notepad++.
On another note, yesterday I actually finally bought the domain I've been meaning to. Now I'm weighing my email options, whether to stick with mailbox.org or switch to fastmail, for example.
I have no real complaints about the service mind you, but their web interface could use some work. I only really use it to set aliases, but the way its set up just feels poorly thought out as soon as you have more than couple aliases.
On another note, yesterday I actually finally bought the domain I've been meaning to. Now I'm weighing my email options, whether to stick with mailbox.org or switch to fastmail, for example.
I have no real complaints about the service mind you, but their web interface could use some work. I only really use it to set aliases, but the way its set up just feels poorly thought out as soon as you have more than couple aliases.
I am also currently thinking about ditching VS Code.
As an alternative I am currently eying Helix.
It is also an modal editor like (Neo)VIM.
Helix tries to use a modern set defaults and changes some of the VIM standards.
E.g. it uses the selection -> action model (instead of the VIM action -> selection).
Overall it seems to be somewhat easier to get into compared to VIM.
Especially the configuration should be much smaller.
But there are also tradeoffs:
(Neo)VIM does have more functionality and a plugin system.
And if someone is already used VIM style editors there is probably no use for switching to Helix.
Thank You for listening to my ramblings
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Attached: 1 image Bluesky has decided to block its service in Mississippi, rather than comply with the state's age verification law. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-service-in-mississippi-over-age-assurance-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
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I really don't think they should comply with these gov't orders though. I definitely don't think age verification should be happening anywhere under any circumstances.TechCrunch (@TechCrunch@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Bluesky has decided to block its service in Mississippi, rather than comply with the state's age verification law. https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/22/bluesky-blocks-service-in-mississippi-over-age-assurance-law/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
I don't know what they can do. Actually fully p2p encrypted network maybe?
but but but - they've been saying since the very beginning it's decentralized
decentralized my ass, more like
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it's not, what are they gonna do - block thousands of instances?
sure, they can block a few, and a few of them can comply, but that doesn't really change anything also - mastodon doesn't even have any tech to comply, and they don't have to do shit since they're in Germany
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Age checks are definitely going to be a EU wide thing. Cant they block the protocol?it's not, what are they gonna do - block thousands of instances?
they can't, it's like torrent - pretty much unkillable, because it actually IS decentralized
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But an ISP can block torrent traffic though, maybe they will force the same with mastodon. Only thing going for mastodon right now is that it has zero political threat to anyone lol, so no one cares enough to block it, but they could if they wanted to.
they can't - it communicates via html, they can only block a specific web address or an ip
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Sure but activitypub has a specific header but the easiest would be to just block, not an instance but the whole host, like masto host. Or easier yet, any instance not implementing age check would be at risk of being fined.
just like they're blocking torrents?
nah, not gonna happen, i can guarantee it
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Well by law they are going to implement that ISPs have to block torrent sites. So yeah it IS happening.just like they're blocking torrents?
ActivityPub can't easily be blocked by governments because there isn't a single central server or domain to target - no one switch you can flip, no headquarters to raid, no app store to delist - because it's a protocol, not a platform, and anyone can implement it on their own server, from a Raspberry Pi in a bedroom to a cluster of hardened machines in a data center, or even something ephemeral and encrypted bouncing across the Tor network. Each instance is sovereign, interconnected, but not dependent - so even if you force one host offline, the rest keep talking, routing around. The protocol itself is just a set of open instructions for how to deliver messages and updates, using basic, well-established web standards - HTTPS, JSON, public/private key signatures - so blocking ActivityPub means blocking the open web, and governments rarely want that kind of backlash or technical blowback. You can't meaningfully block it without crippling all kinds of unrelated infrastructure, and even then, people will spin up mirrors, tunnels, proxies, or fork the damn thing into something new the next day. You can maybe criminalize it, discourage it, shame it, but you can't unmake it, because it's not a service, it's a behavior, a way of speaking, and once people learn that language, they pass it on.
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I mean that is obviously what they want, they wouldnt be age gating fucking wikipedia otherwise. Remember the backlash against chat control? where is it now? they will keep trying to implement stuff as many times it takes to get it passed.
yes, but my point is that bsky or wikipedia are SINGULAR websites, fediverse isn't - they would literally have to either keep blocking every single new instance that pops up (which is basically impossible) or they'd have to block the ENTIRE internet in UK
Yeah, Fediverse would be whack-a-mole to block.
It is robust against censorship and blocks.
It is robust against censorship and blocks.
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