Smithereen
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Smithereen
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Why is no one making a new version of old Facebook?
They do, or rather not old Facebook, but old VK: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
As a bonus it's an ActivityPub enabled application, so any specific instance of it requires less work to get the network effect going. :)
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Ask HN: Show me your half baked project
https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
A Facebook-style ActivityPub server. Has wall posts, groups, and events.
Not yet "ready" — 1.0 would need much better moderation tools, photo albums (with tagging), discussion boards (in groups), and a client API. Direct messages are a work in progress right now.
I myself use it daily for my participation in the fediverse.
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VSCode config to disable annoyances – telemetry, notifications, welcome pages
Unfortunately I don't think it fits any of the projects I work on (and I don't use VSCode to begin with, never had it installed, bit I do see an IntelliJ plugin as well).
I have one project that's a server application (https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen), but since it uses lots of custom stuff on top of the Spark micro-framework, your plugin would probably not work on it. I imagine it does expect projects to be structured idiomatically for the framework they use, at least to some degree. Spark also doesn't know anything about databases, so that is all custom as well. Oh and I also hacked it a bit with reflection to allow streaming responses.
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Meta selling new “Meta Verified” blue badge for $12-15/month
I'm building a fediverse project that aims to fill this exact niche. It's basically a recreation of an early-ish version of VKontakte (Russian Facebook) but federated. It's not really ready yet, and there are lots of important features missing, but I do use it daily for my primary fediverse account.
I, too, am sick of all the existing social media companies trying their damnest to cater to the entertainment use case no one ever asked for.
https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
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Misskey: An Interplanetary Microblogging Platform
I'm building an ActivityPub thing of my own: https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
It's not quite ready for mainstream use just yet, but I'm getting there. The next update will improve moderation tools by a lot. One after that will, at last, add private messages.
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Limewire the golden age of the 90er
Well, for one, fediverse is a thing, and I'm doing my part
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Ask HN: Who is working on fully decentralized social networking?
I know of Smithereen[1] that is an attempt at a full fledged social network similar to VK on top of the ActivityPub vocabulary.
[1] https://github.com/grishka/Smithereen
privacytools.io
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Ash HN: My country is undergoing a coup, which encryption software should I use?
FYI, Privacy Guides is a shitshow. It was formerly privacytools.io[1], and in 2019, the creator[2] of privacytools.io stopped contributing[3] and a new contributor[4] immediately focused on donations[5], became the admin[6] and took control[7] of most assets, including donations but excluding the domain and Twitter account[8]. In 2021, the creator of privacytools.io launched a new privacytools.io[9] and added affiliate links[10], and the Privacy Guides team shut down r/privacytoolsIO rather than return it[11] to the creator. Like I said, a shitshow.
[1] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io
[2] https://www.reddit.com/user/BurungHantu
[3] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commits?auth...
[4] https://github.com/jonaharagon
[5] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commits?afte...
[6] https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commit/4b60a...
[7] https://redd.it/tuo7mm
[8] https://twitter.com/privacytoolsIO
[9] https://redd.it/pxtw2y
[10] https://www.reddit.com/r/VPNTorrents/comments/raftz6/i_made_...
[11] https://redd.it/qk7vn0
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Top Android Phones From China Are Packed With Spyware, Research Finds
Yes, we know you're still mad we won't add Threema. It was thoroughly discussed in our old organization.
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L'Europe se dirige vers une fermeture de Facebook après que l'Irlande a déclaré qu'elle envisage d'empêcher Meta d'envoyer les données des utilisateurs européens vers les États-Unis
en 2019: Signal has copious privacy issues making it unfit for privacytools.io endorsement.
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Is Signal %100 open source?
Signal is just another walled garden and has a lot of other problems too: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/779
- Why is it a good idea to stay updated and avoid unsupported releases
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Lukol – A “Privacy” Search Engine
Or the fork which is much more active these days https://docs.searxng.org/
In the past it Lukol served Google Ads: https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/issues/1557#...
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Will mu4e+mbsync not work for Gmail after this month?
Never heard of it. Fastmail apparently never made it on to the privacytools.io list for its geographical location. See here for some other recommendations. There are also malifence and posteo. I use posteo and mailbox.org. The main two weird things about posteo is that there is no spam folder (detected spam is rejected with no option to change this), and you can't use a custom domain (because they don't want to have any information on you/your name). Mailbox.org can optionally reject spam and lets you use your custom domain. I like it a lot so far.
- How Signal keep his independency
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Brave is rolling out a new feature called De-AMP, which allows Brave users to bypass Google-hosted AMP pages, and instead visit the content’s publisher directly
The correct link is https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/pull/657
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All privacy tools we recommend on a single page
Worth noting the "admins" of that site wrote the content for it, check for yourself https://github.com/privacytools/privacytools.io/commits/master BurungHantu hadn't written anything really since 2016.
What are some alternatives?
GuideToMastodon - An increasingly less-brief guide to Mastodon
privacyguides.org - Protect your data against global mass surveillance programs.
react-gamin - A rockin' React library for makin' games!
brave-browser - Brave browser for Android, iOS, Linux, macOS, Windows.
shellrunner - Write safe shell scripts in Python.
nitter - Alternative Twitter front-end
seleneCMSBundle - Add CMS functionality to your Symfony Apps
BlockTheSpot - Video, audio & banner adblock/skip for Spotify
nature - 🍀 The Nature Programming Language, may you be able to experience the joy of programming.
libreddit - Private front-end for Reddit
knob - Knowledge graph builder
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements