Dear mods, watch what you remove from these chats, our freedoms are getting fucked, people should be allowed to be indignant.

That being said i hope the legislators sit on cacti all day every day, those fucking assholes are exempt from this bullshit.

They will take my data out of my cold dead hands. It was a matter of time, sure, but I was actually holding on to hope for this one. I am pissed, dismayed even.

Session, signal, simplex are your friends. If those give up the ghost and bend the knee then we are going back to irc and aliases. Fucking shit!

I have moments when I think “I might get banned for this”, this is one of those moments.

You may try to ban vpns but you can not really, people usually find ways around censorship. We are notorious for this stuff, as a species.

Its infuriating to me when people just roll over for the powers that be. They may ban some nodes, others will pop up, those will get banned too and so the cycle of cat and mouse begins.

You can host your own vpn with wireguard. It takes a bit of figuring out, sure, but you can literally do so with a raspberry pi. Stick it in a network of choice and voila.

Oh they may control stuff, but this is not a game that can be won, human repression is a futile effort, it may work for a while, but there is a reason why regimes fall. See the wall of Berlin and so many other examples.

Fret not friend, for hope dies last.

I loathe this approach. But for me its more of a hobby and even then, I too am alergic to overt complexity, but saying no maintenance is asking for a security hole to open, sure it can be automated away, but it still takes at least SOME work.

The main reason I dislike this approach is by doing things as simply as possible you delegate the control to the developer of your solution. Its not a one size fits all thing. Some solutions can for sure be turnkey, but most should require some work, because we do this to regain control, not delegate more of it away.

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Yeah, my fist step was tuta as well, I ditched them after a month for malbox.org. never looked back

If you want to use clients other than a webmail tuta wont fit your needs. But, to that end, try both, they are both excellent in their own ways, see what suits you.

Yes. But its my outlet, its keeping me sane. Looking at the worlds nowadays, this is my happy place. More therapy than anything.

Oh god, where do I start?

3 node proxmox setup:

Net node:

• opnsense (dns, dhcp, edge firewall, wireguard)
• caddy
• ssh hub

Compute node:

• a few game servers
• wiki (kiwix), full copy of wikipedia
• searxng
• docker host (portainer plus 10ish containers)
• forgejo
• testing vms
• a separate zfs mirror

Storage node:

• all drives, zfs + mirror
• proxmox backup server
• home assistant
• immich
• ARR stack
• jellyfin

Oh and a monitoring node made out of a rpi 4b with an nvme hat,running dietpi, prometheus, grafana and homepage (gethomepage.dev)

Thats about it plus automations and stuff, wireguard so I can access it from anywhere. Not separated properly, no network zones, just a few vlans for now, work in progress.

Indeed, but it preserves the ethos of being open, while the other does not.

Seafile

You can set up a wireguard tunnel for yourself relatively easily, there are a ton of guides out there. Its basically a way for you to pop out elsewhere, same principle as a vpn. Most vpn providers use wireguard as a protocol.

I think you are the one thst does not get what it does.

I have my network using it, no issues as of yet.

Who do you think is lobying for this? We dont have companies in the EU that would benefit from it.

I disagree. You are normal if you have social media and not if you don’t?

Dunno man, if people need IG to interact with you and you are not comfortable with it, maybe they are not your people, you know?

Why should one go into uncomfortable territory for others, people should interact from positions of comfort, otherwise its a stretch for one side and just a bad time all round.

One thing is for sure @[email protected] , you will have a harder time, make less connections, but I’m pretty sure the ones you will make, will be solid.

One word of advice as a fellow non-socialmedia-person. If you want to meet new people, make sure you are in the same place at a certain time on certain days. That way people know where you might be during certain hours and that is also a way to make connections. Just be sure you like said place.

Mullvad dns.

• Windows vm within linux
• Wine/bottles

Because the grifting is more tolerated nowadays. Its like the slow boil of the frog, they kept doing it for years and years, until people got more and more used to it, because we didnt push back enough at the right time.

So now we deal with this enshittification.

Personally I think its like a pendulum effect, it will swing back in the other direction, but it will take a long time.

Choose what you use carefully.

Assumption on your end. I dont trust the ground I walk on.

As good as tailscale is, I do so loathe it. It does make things easy, but I have to trust a 3rd party with my traffic and for me thats just no bueno.