I didn't realise this. I must have installed it via Aurora?
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Lemmy isn't praxis?! Damn. Well I'm off to fart on a cop car...
I don't use Reddit so this is lost on me...sounds like that might be a good thing haha!
For people wanting to hop off WhatsApp to a similar alternative, Telegram is ideal - it may not beat Signal on security, but it beats it in the aesthetics, UI, user-friendly areas. But aside from Telegram sadly being a haven for fascists and literal Nazis floating around its groups and channels, Signal is seen as a more secure app to use. But other posters here have made some great recommendations!
Thanks for this. I'd stick to the It's FOSS channels if I wanted to see loads of fascist crap 🤣 Love being on Lemmy!
I've noticed this too. I guess I'll live without them...
Great initiative - kudos!
I'd suggest something like Linux Mint for someone switching over - but rather than me make assumptions about what she's used before, I usually recommend librehunt.org as a nice starting point to help choose.
There are definitely pros and cons and I agree with many comments here that it's about threat models and personal preference while making informed choices and promoting the importance of privacy. On a related note, the most alarming thing for me about Telegram is probably the fact that almost every Linux channel on there is full of fascists (and I'm talking literal neo-Nazis with Nazi stuff in their profile photos)! Grotesque and utterly bizarre!
I guess it depends on your definition of anarchism - there are some bad takes out there. If we're talking about libertarian socialism, or even anarcho-communism, then they're more reflective of anarchism rather than fringe "anarcho-capitalism" and such who put the "individual" at the expense of the "collective" - neither anarcho-communism nor libertarian socialism do that; they're very much about collectivism and direct democracy of that collective rather than representative democracy (elected professional politicians such as members of parliament, senators, etc). Think of the workers cooperative: that's a great example that Noam Chomsky has used to describe anarchism - rather than having state powers or capitalists in control, the workers are in control of the means of production, yet there are, as Richard Wolff points out, still individuals who manage departments or have certain roles of different responsibilities. So in short, I'd say decentralized federated services are definitely a step in the right direction: in theory, with a collectively-agreed code of conduct, where admins are assigned etc, they're not a bad example of anarchism at all in my opinion!
Great points!