Sab @sab@librem.one

@nemobis To be fair, social.librem.one is an unmaintained, unmoderated mess.

There are still some decent people around here, but only because they haven't realized how bad the situation is due to a lack of discoverability on the instance.

I wouldn't blame anyone for blocking it, and anyone left on the platform would be better off leaving.

I don't know about the other instances you mention.

@Anachron (I don't usually sound like an advertisement - I don't think there's any other company I would be this comfortable supporting. And there's always a risk they'll lose themselves as they grow, but so far my experience is nothing short of great.)

@Anachron Several times they have sent out surveys asking for feedback, and I feel that my response has been reflected in their actions as a company. Just a few months ago they rolled out a camera upgrade to the Fairphone 3, and as I'm on the mailing list I got an email where they asked if it was working well for me. Many times they have asked for feedback where you can write freely.

The company is, in my experience, outstanding. And my Fairphone 3 is great; the Fairphone 5 looks better.

@Anachron In that case I can report that I am extremely happy with my Fairphone 3. Not only do I love the phone, but the company itself is responsive to customers.

At some point I sent them an email about something, and they were not only responsive; their team even sent me follow-up emails to make sure things were working out well. And what I emailed them about was no fault of theirs.

@Anachron If you support their mission, it probably means you'd be willing to keep it for a while. In all likelihood it's going to last you longer than any other phone would, meaning that it will, at the end of its lifetime, have been quite a bit cheaper than the alternatives.

The camera looks good to me, but it is of course not the best available, and by the time the phone needs to be replaced it'll be even more outdated. I think, however, that it's more than good enough for 95% of people.

@thibaultamartin I just set the Obsidian vault to my Nextcloud notes folder, giving me easy access in the browser, on my phone, and on any laptop. Works like a charm.

@fredldotme I appreciate that the first screenshot is taken at 13:58, the second at 5:09. That's a serious all-nighter.

Looks like it paid off!

@mlundblad @flyingpimonster This is something I _really_ look forward to! Not only would it do wonders for GNOME Maps on my 4k display, but more importantly I really miss the map function in Shotwell showing where my pictures were taken.

Super happy to see the progress!

@PINE64 Said yes, but I guess really it depends. Sounds quality, of course, but equally important is that I do _not_ want a microphone. I don't want to have more microphones connected to the internet around me than absolutely necessary, no matter how much I trust the software.

@Nouscat For what it's worth, I feel like I learned something from the resulting discussion with @inthehands. I generally just shut up because I don't want to talk out of turn, but there's some (presumably) good advice in there about how to join the discussion without risking coming across as disrespectful. :)
https://mastodon.social/@Nouscat/110918189005456241

@purism I appreciate that Librem Social is half discontinued and I have migrated my primary #Mastodon account somewhere else. However, I still check in here now and then, and I notice that it is still used by #Purism.

So: I wonder if you have any plans at all to upgrade the instance, if nothing else to version 3.5.11? There have been major security fixes, and running anything lower than 3.5.8 is neither recommended nor a good look for a company concerned with #privacy.

@z3ntu I guess it makes sense that the Fairphone 5 will be announced soon, but I kind of wish they would release new phones more rarely and focus on modular upgrades instead. If an even better camera module was released for the Fairphone 3 I would buy it in a heartbeat. :)

@PINE64 The beta website is looking great!

While the YouTube preview works great and is appreciated, have you considered embedding videos uploaded to PeerTube instead? I'm sure I'm not the first to raise the point (sorry!), but it would be nice to be able to avoid YouTube altogether. https://tilvids.com might be a suitable host. :)

@omglinux Would be interesting to see how well this performs with the #pinenote! Seems like it could have a lot of potential.

@omglinux I just returned to Thunderbird for the first time in over a decade. The new design looks great, and I cannot believe how easy it was to set up with an Office365 account.

I wish it was equally easy to set up contacts and calendar to synchronize with Nextcloud.

@Ciaraioch I think some people just have a very strong belief that we'll build a better world on the ashes of the old, combined with a lack of comprehension of how it affects people when the old world burns.

I'm quite likely guilty of both, but I try not to be a jerk about it, so at least there's that.

@tartley If they manage to add features and trick people into joining their instances before locking them in, wouldn't it be easier to just launch services with said features and trick people into using their services right away? At which point it's just the status quo?

For me, email seems a better comparison (even though everybody's tired of it). Gmail might be monopolistic and awful, but nothing done by Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, or anyone else managed to destroy it.

@sab As far as I'm concerned I'm just happy they don't opt for Bluesky.