@cybette and thanks figured I'd go all in on the librem services as I have a librem 15 laptop and also have a librem 5 phone pre-ordered https://librem.one

@cybette and also my server I was on the person was going to shut it down so this new home works out for me hey tell me what u think of this https://librem.one https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-works-upstream-and-gives-back/ https://puri.sm/posts/opt-in-no-ads-and-no-tracking-solve-a-lot-of-problems-in-society/ and that last one specially most aren't sure how they feel about the no timelines but read all 3 in that order and tell me what u think!!

@jameshjacksonjr I didn't have time to read through things in detail until now. I don't always check the local/federated timelines but I like the option of having them and checking them occasionally. By disabling them completely, isn't Purism dictating what we *shouldn't* see? How is that giving us the control over content?

@cybette like I am @jameshjacksonjr:librem.one on matrix aka librem chat and @jameshjacksonjr on mastodon and jameshjacksonjr@librem.one is my email address so it's the same user name across all services so it's super easy to go from chatting on matrix with some one to following them on mastodon to emailing them some private PDFs with out having to ask them a thing just by knowing one of those 3 u know them all so as your chatting on matrix ur adding them to mastodon

@cybette so I'm only seeing content from people I follow vs a huge vast amount of content I didn't ask to have there

@jameshjacksonjr I don't know what clients you use, but I'm also only seeing content from people I follow. the other timelines are separate and I only see them if I *choose* to. However they are available, not completely removed which feels like censorship.

@cybette no matter what client u use its this way purism is doing it at the server level so u can't even log into another mastodon client and get timlines

@jameshjacksonjr so they decided for you what you cannot see, instead of it being your choice?

how is that better? I don't get it 🤔

@cybette it's not better for some but some like the more simplicity of it this way

@jameshjacksonjr

yeah perhaps. well like I always say it's good to have options and this librem one option isn't for me :)

@cybette how about a librem 5 phone with removable battery

@cybette maybe as more of the services light up it will be appealing to you

@cybette it's something I wish sailfish had a services bundle buy sailfish log in and all services light up type of deal easy and simple

@cybette but I do see the flip side of it I feel there should be a toggle in settings to either see timelines oe not see em that would have solved it just a on and off toggle leaving out up to the user