There’s also text-based tools - not sure if they fit your needs. beancount (with ‘fava’ has a nice web UI), ledger, hledger. Good thing about text based is: you can easily use git.

Not sure if they go as ‘budgeting’ software. ‘Accounting’ might be more accurate.

It might not be ready for everything but more than a dream it is: https://postmarketos.org/

Can’t wait for PostmarketOS to be mature enough everyday use.

Propaganda seems still a business case for me.

Taara is Google, just saying.

Maybe they should also ban lobbying by Google, Microsoft etc.

Let’s poke the bubble.

In thie fesiverse graphic each person has exactly 1 connection to a fediverse thing. But in reality, there can be more. I guess in practice there are often more than one.

That’s me most of the time. Does it mean I’m ADHD?

Always have some chewing gum ready. (I would advise for cyanoacrylate but that’s illegal in some places because you could use it to stick yourself to the road as a form of protest)

Please panic. There’s Librewolf. A deshittified Firefox fork. Would be great to support that project.

Windows also used to show me the ugly face of Trump in the start menu even if I didn’t ask for it. That was more than 4 years ago. Recently was accidentally hovering over some ‘copilot’ button in Edge of a friend. And again - pop-up with Trump. So yes: fuck Windows, fuck Microsoft

How about another type of control: by default your profile is not federated. Then you manually select the instances you trust. And your data getcs shared only with those. Dating usually is kind of local anyway. If i live in australiay I’m likely not interested in matches from the UK. So instances could already serve as some pre-selection based on your region and possibly community type.

My last impression was that alovoa would need a lot of work still. It’s also the best thing I’ve seen so far but it’s very buggy unfortunately.

How about doing some fine-grained control mechanism: you share little data publicly, then once somebody likes you, you can decide to share more with them. With some cryptography tricks should be possible to share this information only with the other person and not with their home servers.

We need such statements now more than ever. Thank you Codeberg <3

Green flags:

• copyleft license (GPL or better AGPL) + they accept contributions without contributor license agreement
• code written by many people who personally own the copyright
• active community

Yellow flags:

• permissive license
• business model which can’t be really be sustainable with a shit-free product

Red flags:

• VC funding (implies enshittification in future because of profit maximization)
• proprietary license
• project does not take contribution from the outside or asks to transfer copyright or sign some document (CLA)

Like it was not a risk before. People just didn’t want to see the obvious.

Maybe now would be the right time to lobby this organization. The impact of Twitter may have brought us Trump and all the destruction which will follow. We can’t affort this once more.

A pity they go again for the same type of platform. It’s just a matter of time until the profit maximization monster strikes there too :/