Our Peertube instance (videos.trom.tf) got blasted with over 100 user registrations for the past hour or less. At times more than one registration per minute. This is abnormal and for sure these are bots. We've seen some "qanon" conspiracy crap videos being posted immediately after these registrations on our instance. Until we investigate further we've closed the registrations and restricted user uploads. So yah.....there we go....the internet friends...youtube's and facebook's garbage is trying to find a new place to post their nonsense.

It is very unfortunate but we will come up with a solution. Our Peertube instance will never die. #tromlive

We have some great news about our social.trom.tf! Our Facebook/Twitter trade-free alternative is now up to date and it works with native mobile and desktop apps. Which means you now have no excuse not to move from Facebook or Twitter, to social.trom.tf :).

On desktop Whalebird works fine. On Android: AndStatus, Tusky, Fedilab and Husky work great.

We will add more info about this on our trom.tf soonish.

We've also updated all of our Dark themes for the web version and they look much better now. Easy to use, clean. We default now to TROM Red Dark until we fix the light themes.

So yeah, our social network is now up and running, updated, and available on all platforms.

#tromlive

A quick tip for the current TROMjaro users that got the latest updates. if your left side menu doesn't work properly - like when you right click a favorite app the menu displays in the up left corner and you cannot click any menu options, or if you can't right click the apps icon (bottom left) to then go to the menu (Dash to Dock) settings, do these two commands:

1. Open the terminal.
2. Paste "cd /usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/dash-to-dock@micxgx.gmail.com/ " and hit enter. Now paste this "sudo mv schemas schemas-bak" and hit enter.
3. Restart your desktop by pressing ALT+F2 then write "r" and enter.

Done! Now works. #tromlive

You ever wondered why Elon Musk has not yet changed the world for the better, like he gave us the impression that he will? It is because he was busy making himself the richest man on Earth. But hey, you know maybe he will do good things with all of that money...right? right!? right...?!?!?

In the meantime you can pretend to be Musk and spend all of his fortune here spend-elon-fortune.netlify.app… and even get a receipt for it. Go ahead, see how many houses you can buy, how many cars, or digital collections or yachts. Try to spend it all.

Cheers #tromlive

Trade-Free alternatives to:

- Facebook/Twitter social.trom.tf/
- Dropbox/Google Drive/iCloud files.trom.tf/
- Youtube/Vimeo videos.trom.tf/
- Google Search/Bing search.trom.tf/
- Google Docs/Microsoft Office office.trom.tf/
- Wetransfer send.trom.tf/
- Pocket bag.trom.tf/
- Google Maps maps.trom.tf/
- Spotify (desktop) musik.trom.tf/
- Windows/MacOS tromjaro.com/ plus most of the apps found on these operating systems tromjaro.com/apps/

Plus more such services here trom.tf/

Help us keep them trade-free and add a lot more. Donate if you can tromsite.com/donate/

#tromlive

We have added two more trade-free services to our trom.tf/ (they are in testing mode for now) :

1. MAPS: an almost complete alternative to Google Maps. You can create your own maps and save them, edit them collaboratively, import routes, add points of interests and a lot more. All without an account and without limitations. maps.trom.tf/

2. PASS: a trade-free alternative to LastPass and the like. Mind you: Storing your passwords on a server is always a dangerous idea. We try to protect our server from attacks and data leaks, and we keep everything in check and updated, but we are a small team and we can't guarantee it. Keep that in mind before you use this service. pass.trom.tf/

These are meant for testing for now, so please let us know if you experience any bugs and such with them. Contact us here tromsite.com/contact/

#tromlive

A new service added to our trom.tf - check.trom.tf/ :

SPF Toolbox was created to be an easy, free open source way for people to get information about any domain. #tromlive

The boats that do not sail - videos.trom.tf/videos/watch/d8…

This is another video about our society. We live in an abundance of stuff, yet many people don't have access to that, because of this trade system, where you have to trade something in order to get something. #tromlive

Our Invidious instance ytb.trom.tf now has an anti-captcha integration which should make it pretty resilient from being blocked. Youtube is the largest video platform out there, so we need a way to access it trade-free. ytb.trom.tf lets you do that. You can even create an account in seconds and subscribe to any youtube channel. No ads, no bs, no trackers. Pure video watching! That's the beauty of trade-free! ;)

And as a reminder, for those who do not use TROMjaro (why aren't you!? :) ), you should install this awesome browser extension github.com/SimonBrazell/privac… which will replace youtube, google maps, google search, twitter, instagram, reddit, google translate, with trade-free alternatives automatically. And our instances are already added to the list. Take care of your brain because it is the one controlling you ;).

#tromlive