Nato Boram

Being connected online is advertising intrusion vectors to would-be nefarious actors

Firefox has built-in ads (that you can disable) on the home page.

Not as hot garbage as Brave cryptoscamming and replacing ads with their own and hijacking affiliate links, but it might be of interest if you want to try Firefox.

I’m really liking Pop OS! I’d still be using Ubuntu if it wasn’t for Pop tbh. I’ve also had some fun with Elementary OS, but their hostile stance on tray icons is killing my workflow.

Ideological design bullshit shouldn’t get in the way of making a good product tbh.

A government-sponsored instance could be interesting, but I’m not sure what value it would bring. Also it would probably turn instantly into worse than Facebook with toxicity.

Putting Tumblr on ActivityPub could be interesting and potentially save it, but there’s so much deleted content from when it was in its prime that I’m not sure if it’s even worth it. The platform is so dead.

That said, giving taxpayer money to private social media businesses is the worst idea ever. In the first place, public money should mean public code.

And this, ladies and gentlemen, is why having “leopards ate my face” in the title is banned in the subreddit :)

In case you’re curious about it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.instagram.barcelona

I find it weird that no one is linking it. I literally had to find it on APKMirror.