RE: The biggest problem about this is the API definition. Libraries have APIs. But in a completely different way, webservers have APIs. If I say “we are going to a conference on API’s” what do you hear? That we are going to talk about REST, GraphQL, or gRPC, or web server APIs of some type. This is common phraseology. However, one time I was invited to such a conference, and it ended up being about C# design philosophy.

In that way API is an adjective (REST API, C# API, …) AND a noun (webserver API). That’s a problem.

And as an adverb, there is some justification to replace it with Library and others (REST Endpoint, C# Library)

Because otherwise all public functions are API’s, which doesn’t seem necessary to me. Saying a Library has an API is somewhat redundant. Saying a server hosts an API is not, many servers run jobs or databases. Many websites don’t host APIs. Etc.

That’s just called political apathy and self defeatism.

Someday you will care because it will affect you. Best not to wait until that day comes.

Everything…

Why can’t you hang out with people who have different sexual orientations than you?

Why can’t you understand your shared self interest against homophobia/biphobia with other LGBT individuals?

I’d say it’s very self oriented, but it’s really not, you can’t even recognize your own group self interest.

That might be worth it. Is bitwarden self hosted FOSS?

They have given me errors when trying to register with a hidden iCloud email.

Weird

People have still blocked my iCloud.

If it’s an unknown or less popular service they are less likely to add it to a blacklist IME

That’s impossible, the email aliases are under their domain. You’d have to change all your accounts. I’m not doing that again. Hopefully they just change their tune.

Well since in proton the email alias feature is integrated into the password manager (which is really useful) I don’t see them as that unlinked. It would be like having a password manager without the ability to make random passwords, basically pointless. One compromised service and my email will be spammed across the internet until the end of time.

I know it’s difficult but just call a friend who is on facebook in the group for updates.

Enough people start doing that and the group will realize there’s a demand for off Facebook communication.

Even mastadon would be sufficient. But a signal group or even sms is enough.

Every account I have on the internet has a unique randomly generated email that forwards to my real email.

iCloud and Proton are the two big names that support this. It’s invaluable.

I think it’s a big overexageration that leaving meta is social suicide. Call your friends.

One thing we do need to replace though is meetup. I thrive there but organizing on meetup is terrible and expensive.

Yeah but without email aliases it would not be worth it

I did weeks of work migrating every password and email address to proton. Sucks the stances they are taking but now I’m kinda stuck, and it’s still better than Google.

It might be better for them but it’s not better for the internet strangers, now there is an unknown beggar in their space.

Mutual aide is mutual

I guess the TLDR is just that men are generally only jealous of other men.

That’s merely an anchoring effect. Mastadon was the first of those technologies, and activitypub itself was heavily inspired by replicating Twitter so it was also the most straightforward implementation. Lastly, a lot of the far more favorited social media platforms rely on either strong content creators or social network effects to succeed, whereas Twitter creates enough bubbles and is less focused on people you actually know IRL that it doesn’t suffer as much from this problem.

You don’t understand correlation and causation apparently, just pointing at stats and grunting without reasoning about them. The effective number of people using fediverse platforms being almost inverse of the number of people using non fediverse platform corollaries shows if anything that fediverse itself is facing an adoption problem, not that Twitter is the best platform for it to emulate.

I mean publicly available stats of 11million users somehow proves your point? Facebook has 3 billion users. X has 600 million but over half are bots. 1 in 5 of those accounts are American. So that’s about 1/5th of the people in America have a twitter account. How much they post would be much more complicated stat.

Here it is being ranked 12th most popular social media.

https://backlinko.com/twitter-users#most-popular-networking-service

So yeah, I’m glad we are now focusing on emulating actually popular social media like YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok. We can have an X clone but why did we start with one?