Kevin C. @kcoram@librem.one

@switchingsocial@mastodon.at @wallabag@social.tcit.fr I found I like #Wallabag so much, that I was willing to subscribe to their official instance, even though I could fairly easily self-host it.

@HamDancer @canteen @switchingsocial@mastodon.at Alas, as much as I love my Yubikey, not every sight I want to use 2FA with can work with it, yet.

@chris At the moment, I think I'm more concerned with the risks of a smaller service being hacked than I am with the risks of the data I have in Google platforms.

While Google likely treats me as the product, it is in their best interests to hold tightly onto the data they have gathered about me. I don't particularly fear that they will share out that data to anyone short of a government subpoena.

@freedomboxfndn Good to know, thanks! I'll impatiently wait for the new features :)

@chris My current nebulous thoughts on it all is that we (the FOSS/Fediverse community sort of people) need to figure out how to basically make it all like appliances that Just Work.

Things like the #freedombox are in the right direction, but the self-hosted services I'm interested in aren't all on that (yet?).

A more-or-less turnkey #nextcloud + #mastodon + ___ would almost do it for me. I can roll my own, but it gets tiring.

I haven't a clue how I'd replace Google Maps, though. :/

@chris What is it about the FOSS/private solutions that make you feel like being trapped back in 2005?

I've been starting to think that I should spend more of my personal project time in contributing to one or more of the FOSS "de-google" projects. So I am very curious to know what need you are seeing, in case it might line up with my skills/interests as something to invest time in helping improve.

@gudenau@mastodon.technology @chris The short of it, as far as I understand the articles that I've read, is that the problem is based in a feature -- they didn't want people to troll others by being able to delete from the key server records. But it is biting them in the butt now that they have "poisoned" keys that they want to delete spammed signatures from . . . .

They pretty much need to go back to the drawing board for the key server federation protocols :/

@glynmoody That was a good read, thanks for linking it.

There was also a nice mention of https://freedombox.org/ ( @freedomboxfndn ) at the end of the article, too.

I suppose I should post an #introduction.

I am #new2mastodon and to microblogging in general. I'm not sure I actually understand the attraction, but the technologies of the #fediverse are fascinating.

I am a #christian #father, a #softwaredeveloper, and a long-time #linux fan.

I used to be big into #gaming, but life makes it harder to keep up with that habit. #reading is probably better for me anyway.

@christitus I've been following your videos for a bit, and was wondering when you would let us know what your librem.one handle was :)

Nice to finally find you here!

Keep up the good work on YouTube. Going all-in with content creation is pretty brave of you.