I never block anyone or any instance. I simply ignore them. I also use the subscribed feed, so what most of the people say about hexbear, lemmygrad, etc. content filling their feed also does not affect me.

That’s what uBlock Origin planned to do if YouTube ever decided to etch ads into the video stream itself.

I was just given a computer with unrestricted internet access and learnt it that way. Of course, the internet being unrestricted made me visit some questionable and illegal websites. Including CP and some hardcore NSFL using the tor browser. But I don’t regret it (other than the last points).

Looks like a fun community, I’ll join.

I don’t know. I primarily use Mull on android because it is a hardened version of Firefox. No issues with it so far.

Long brainstorming sessions on how to implement my next Lemmy bot.

Firefox’s sandboxing sucks ass (especially on Linux). Mozilla has still not implemented a better sandbox, despite the open discussion since years. GrapheneOS (a security and privacy focused aosp rom) uses Chromium for its browser Vanadium because it ultimately is undoubtedly more secure. Google pumps millions into their chrome security team.

So while not that good for privacy, chrome/chromium is better for security.

what the fuck

Mull is not made by Mullvad. Mull is made by the dev of DivestOS.

Mull is a hardened fork of Firefox. I use it but some rare websites’ functionality does not work with it. Mull is not more secure than Chromium though, even if it is hardened. Chromium is undoubtedly more secure but not privacy-friendly. I also don’t want to support the chromium monopoly, so I don’t use them. Brave as a browser also sucks. Shields suck. Nothing to this day has been better than uBlock Origin yet.

GNU Taler

FlorisBoard Beta for keyboard

Grayjay for Youtube/Peertube/Twitch, etc.

K-9 Mail for mail

QUIK SMS for SMS

Mull for browser

Self hosted ente photos for cloud image/video storage

InnerTune for downloading/listening music

Taler Wallet for payments in the future

Keyguard for bitwarden password manager

Translate You for translator

Check my profile banner and you’ll see.

I use FlorisBoard Beta with the Material You theme. It looks amazing.

FUTO Keyboard also looks very pretty, but it’s a bit bloated.

If it means my code won’t panic out of nowhere and cause a disaster for me, I am willing to “take a vacation” for my program to finish compiling.

Wdym not discoverable. Lemmy instances have been indexed for years

Assuming most people use Google, when searching for “lemmy”, it is the third search before some guy named lemmy and when searching for “join lemmy” (logically) it’s the first. So we can conclude that people don’t use it because most of the people link to lemmy.world and not to join-lemmy.org. Most likely not everyone searches for “join lemmy” anyways since most people come from Reddit.

I use rust btw.

I mean, all cmake does is run some commands for you. You not understanding cmake errors (mostly) means you don’t understand the errors given to you by the C/C++ compiler.

That’s extra work to be done when we already have a join-lemmy.org website by the official devs that does what you want. People changing the link in their comments from lemmy.world to join-lemmy.org is not hard, is it?