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  • In my experience I find niche community are very well “centralized”, like there is only one gnome community.

    However larger community are speard between servers like tech etc. That really is not a problem for me, as any of these larger community can give me the news I need. Also sub to all 3 of them is not a big deal either.

    Like everyone on reddit sub to at least 3 art communities, 5 dank meme communities, and 10 music communities.



  • Huffman said 97% of Reddit users do not use any third-party apps to browse the site.

    “And the opportunity cost of not having those users on our platform, on our advertising platform, is really significant,”

    By “significant”, he means 3%??? That is not factoring how much profit these 3% of people’s content can provide.

    So all of these fuzz just to have a one time increase of less than 3% of the profit, even at the cost of more than a million (57 million * 3%) user’s privacy, that is freaking ridiculous.




  • Besides /e/ os, I would also recommend graphene and calyxos.

    Calyxos works similar to /e/os in that it uses microg to get things working, but calyxos is more up-to-date and secure.

    Graphene os uses sandboxed Google play, which sounds bad, but the play services is confined to its sandbox, basically graphene os will simply feed it garbage telemetry unless it is absolutely necessary for the system to function.

    /e/ os supports more devices (not just pixel like the other two), have their own SSO cloud service based on Nextcloud, and they support device that is outside of the support period of manufacturer (this also hurts security, as firmware cannot be updated without the OEM supporting the phone). But there is always a trade-off between security and longevity, given that most OEM only support a phone for couple of years now.



  • If you want to switch anyway, why not graphene/calyxos with Ubuntu/mint/pop/fedora? They work on your current device, and much more private than iOS + macOS

    I think graphene should be relatively painless, especially with sandboxed Google play. The only thing don’t work is probably auto and pay. Calyxos is kind of the same story.

    Linux distro has been working really well for me (I switched to windows from Linux at the end of college, and switch back to Linux again last year). The only thing that doesn’t work is office and other industrial software. If you don’t use Microsoft office extensively, then liberal office is a okay replacement. Only office is also very solid, but it is Russian software with few outside developers, so many people don’t really trust it.


  • I think colored eink is a great idea, unfortunately I will never buy a boox device at this point. Their business model is similar to phone model, pushing out new model is much more important than maintaining old model.

    IMO this practice is very wasteful, extremely bad for the environment (electronics are in general very toxic), and ultimately just anti consumer.

    That being said, different people have different needs, and have to face different trade-offs. Absolutely no judgement if anyone decided to get one. I am just saying personally I would much prefer the supernote’s business model than boox.