What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.
You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.
Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...
I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful exper
... Show more...What drained me of power over the past years is this constant fight of debullshitting the Internet experience for me and others.
You always have to use an AdBlocker, VPNs to circumvent all sort of censorship - and for that matter change the location often else you still get blocked; find proper news sources then find their RSS, add to an RSS reader, try to read locally if these websites allow you to....else go visit their bullshit websites.
Youtube is still by far the biggest, or the only in most cases, video platform. Now even with an adblocker the youtube experience sucks - they autoplay videos, insert shorts into your face, make you click things you don't want, and now insert AI generated video description for videos.. So you have to use an app for youtube that removes these piles of poop. But these apps are constantly blocked and won't work all of the time...
I don't even want to think about search which has become a pile of nonsense. Full of fake AI websites and now when pretty much all search engines introduced AI summaries...makes searching a painful experience.
Even Reddit, which can still feel like a "community" of people posting stuff from time to time, is a garbage. Full of fake posts and bots, and no way you can use RSS to follow subreddits. Login to see some content....endless scroll....all a bazaar.
I have to fight with "free" Wordpress plugins that insert ads into your dashboard, I have to block AI Summaries in searches, I have to keep Freetube up to date and often when videos do not work there, open in Youtube. I have to read my news in a semi-broken RSS reader since some cannot fetch all of the news, I have to install a custom OS on my phone then block ads there too, but now some banking apps do not work....a constant loop of poop, to protect yourself and your sanity, because everyone is there to fucking slice you open for a view, a click, a like...
Always always a fight against this destruction of the internet even tho all I fucking want is to read some reliable science news, watch some educational videos from time to time, and post some content or search for content. What the actual fuck....
I know why this is: TRADE. Same reason why the offline world is a shithole full of destruction, garbage, less nature, all about consuming and shops. This is what happens when humans have a primary goal of trading. Same online, these platforms are about trading, your attention, data, currency in return for a service. So it is a normal "enshitification" of the online too.
At least I have Friendica, Peertube, Nextcloud, Linux (TROMjaro) and the like, that allow me to still use the Internet in a sane way.
But man...such a shithole the Internet has become. I can't even imagine how "normal" people use it without adblockers, with relying on youtube, facebook, tiktok and such platforms....must be hell in the brain for these people.
I used to LOVE the Internet back in the days. It was like a park where you met interesting things and people. Now is like a metrostation full of ads and merchants, where everyone is in a rush to go somewhere else.
#enshitification #enshitiffication #internet #fedi #youtube #facebook #tiktok #reddit #alternatives #friendica #peertube
Dennis Nunes
in reply to Holos Social • • •How does the relay work, is it a shared relay, does anyone needs to have one relay?
What about the app, how does it work?
Holos Social
in reply to Dennis Nunes • • •The relay provides a stable identity and proxies requests to your phone. When your phone is online, it serves everything directly. When offline, the relay caches your public posts and queues incoming activities (follows, mentions, replies) until you're back. You control how long posts stay cached. You can use the shared relay at holos.social or self-host your own with Docker.
Holos Social
in reply to Holos Social • • •The app is a React Native app with a full ActivityPub server running locally on your phone. Your data stays on the device. You connect, you're on the Fediverse. You disconnect, your cached posts stay visible for as long as you decide. Nothing is lost, and you're in control.
ebrum
in reply to Holos Social • • •Holos Social
Unknown parent • • •Thanks for asking now rather than later. React Native has native VoiceOver support and we've been mindful of accessibility from the start. We're focused on Android first, iOS will come later. When the iOS beta comes out, your feedback will be very welcome.
Rokosun
in reply to Holos Social • • •Rokosun
in reply to Holos Social • • •flo
in reply to Rokosun • • •@HolosSocial
ping as to hopefully get an answer to this rather important question.
Edit:
In Screenshots an "Export"-option can be seen (nextcloud and others, as I understand it).
Holos Social
in reply to flo • • •@fasnix
The challenge is that federated posts are linked to your old identity (@you@old-relay.com). Other instances won't automatically recognize them under a new relay.
But since all your data stays on your phone, we could offer a migration feature: update all your posts with your new identity and re-sign them with your new key. They would then be rediscovered by other instances when you're online, as if published from your new relay.
This is doable and we'll work on adding it.
@futureisfoss
Rokosun
in reply to Holos Social • • •@fasnix
I didn't really think about the fact that my old identity will be tied to the posts, yeah I can see how that can cause issues with federation... On mastodon I often use the "in:library" search operator to search for posts I've interacted with before, it could be a post I liked or replied to in the past and this search operator helps me find it again. So in some ways I think it'd still be useful to have my old data even without an identity change, as long as it's searchable.
Stargazer
in reply to Holos Social • • •It is a "self-hosted" shard of Fediverse, isn't it? Like in, you are discoverable/contactable etc but it's not "I upload this data to a Masto instance", it's more like a "I keep my data on my device and the posts I create are saved on my device, Masto instance gets copies when my device goes online". Kinda like cloud storage where sync uploads data you have on your PC to elsewhere but this local data remains the "single source of truth".
Warmer?
Deadly Headshot
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