mathimagical @jenn@social.privacytools.io

@dallin that is another option! Maybe it will be less frustrating this time now that you’ve had experience with it before. Have your looked at /e/ phones? I think you can buy them preloaded with their OS.

@dallin shucks, I hadn’t looked into it that far yet. I guess in that case I would buy a used smartphone from kijiji.

@dallin one thing I’ve considered doing is carrying a dumb phone (with wifi hotspot ting available) all the time, and then having an iPod or smartphone I can use just for maps or what have you on the days I need it.

@GwenfarsGarden@sunbeam.city that looks lovely!

@resist1984 I agree that it’s not great that the internet is concentrated on the servers of a few corporations but I don’t see the an effort like this: https://gizmodo.com/i-tried-to-block-amazon-from-my-life-it-was-impossible-1830565336 being worth it. I need the Internet for far too many things for work and day to day functioning.

@resist1984 that would be an excellent feature!

@resist1984 I’m pretty decent at regulating my phone use, but I am conscious of the possible reddit time waste. As for AWS, I don’t get as far as avoiding sites served by AWS or google. Props to those who find a way to do that, but I just take the trade off because SO many things are on those servers.

Anyone here use reddit as well? What’s your favourite Reddit app? Been trying to find a nice open source iOS app (I know - apple - but I don’t want to throw out something that still works).

@hummingrain any chance there’s a Universalist/Unitarian church in your area? They might be worth a try, if there is one.

Perhaps a silly question, but what do y’all with privacy-indifferent friends do for chatting? I have signal for a few friends, and telegram for my spammy computer science friend group chat, but the great majority of my friends are iMessage/SMS/Facebook contactable only (and I deleted Facebook).

How do you either convince them to switch or limit your privacy risk in chatting with them?