oldfart

Keep downvoting that shit, let them know they are not welcome

The main Mastodon instance with their official app has discoverability. The difference is so much different from what I normally use - a 3rd party app and a 3rd party instance

Back then the CEOs were babbling about information superhighways while tech rolled their eyes

Haha I learned the habit of properly lifting and not breaking your back this way. Looks like school taught me something practical after all.

Facebook has shut down my pseudonymous account because i did not provide a photo of my ID. Try it, you should meet more like-minded people there than on Lemmy

I got some answers to a similar question here https://lemm.ee/post/45993313

Which reminds me that rss-bridge has a Facebook backend that sometimes works and sometimes doesn't

https://rss-bridge.github.io/rss-bridge/

I used to have a burner account and a program that logged in to FB with Selenium and converted certain "pages" into RSS feeds. It worked great when it did, but Facebook has a lot of measures against scraping, and I burned out trying to maintain this.

I don't know a way to read their content without an account, which excludes me from a lot of local events.

Okay i remembered it wrong, not PGP keys but close

All sellers had pgp keys published, everyone just used these and feds could not see shit.

Not like the later honeypots where the market published fake pgp keys on sellers' profiles and MITMed the communications.

The one with whiskey

I mean. I remember an article about an Amiga program that everyone used cracked, that only sold 1 copy. Sucks to be a small author in such a scenario.