Jonah @jonah@social.privacytools.io

Hey-o! Just want to say if you're enjoying our Mastodon server, our Matrix chat, or anything else we're doing @ privacytools.io, I would really appreciate it if you'd consider donating any amount towards our costs 😄

We're currently spending around $60/month on servers and other infrastructure, and we'd like to be able to pay our team more in the future! We prefer https://liberapay.com/privacytools.io/ but there are many other contribution methods at https://www.privacytools.io/donate/ 😅 Thanks everyone!!

@Wetrix according to me (https://social.privacytools.io/@jonah/102213374526908692) Amaroq can show other timelines, but I don't remember where I got that information! 😅 I don't use Amaroq so I can't tell you, but take a look around.

I use "Toot!" on iOS which definitely can, but I think it's a paid app IIRC.

@Wetrix @supernova yeah your accounts stay on this instance forever unless you delete it or I suspend you :) I think that is the case for all Mastodon servers (i.e. that isn't even a configurable option) but YMMV because idk how Pleroma, PeerTube, Pixelfed et cetera work. Or some admins could conceivably create a script to delete old/unused accounts. Not the case here though.

@nikolal neither, DNS-over-TLS is where it’s at 👌

@hal9000 welcome to PTIO 🎉 let me know if you have any questions!

@Wetrix you can’t on the web interface, but some mobile clients can view timelines of other servers. I know I can on Toot! (on iOS), but not sure if Amaroq has that ability.

@OneSubtractOne @Wetrix it does matter somewhat, because when you move to another instance your followers don’t move with you automatically (even if you setup the account redirect).

You also are stuck with your instance’s rules, and if your instance is domain blocked somewhere that affects you. Which is why I suggest people run their own instance whenever possible. But then you miss out on good local timelines like PTIO’s 😅🤷‍♂️ (I guess you could be like @one / @one@mstdn.io and have a million alt accts)

@jj @greyor technically the Unix-like system is “Darwin”. It’s “OS 10” just like iPhone X/Xs is “iPhone 10” / “10s” but nobody says it that way, despite Apple’s wishes 😝

@supernova nothing ever really worked reliably for me besides Tor, but that isn’t decentralized.

Solve a debate:

@Wetrix there’s all sorts of information like that on
https://social.privacytools.io/about/more, highly recommend checking it out.

I don’t have any plans to limit anything at this time. Not sure what the best way to accomplish that would be anyhow. Disabling registrations seems somehow antithetical to our goals.

@one@fedi.absturztau.be @one@the.hedgehoghunter.club it’s becoming self-aware...

@one and it better stay that way 😤

@Paul weird, could’ve sworn it was called something else.

That setting doesn’t affect everybody, only you. However the new default for new users is to have the advanced interface disabled, so the single column view is the default for anyone that signed up since the instance was upgraded to 2.9.x

@Paul it’s definitely in your settings somewhere, labeled “single column layout” (not a theme). When I get on my laptop I’ll take a look.