Supernova1051

Stephanie Lovins is a piece of shit racist

Just a reminder for anyone not in the know:

While Bluesky is better than Xitter right now, don't forget that it's still a centralized service that has censored - and will continue to censor - content they disagree with. Bluesky Relay servers costs so much to run that it's only financially feasible for big corporations to run them. This forces centralization, although technically can be decentralized, and puts it's end users onto the same path of enshittification that Xitter and other social networks have gone through.

Mastodon, while imperfect, is actually decentralized (including DM's - all Bluesky DMs are centralized amd can be viewed by its admins) and cannot suffer this type of censorship.

While Signal's home base is the US, they are a non profit org that doesn't operate in the same way as for-profit corporations. Also, Signal collects basically zero data so there's no incentive to sell out, and who would want to buy them anyway when they have no data and the server and client are open source.

Matrix is great, but I wouldn't compare it to Signal. I use both for very different purposes.

I've been giving them the benefit of the doubt, but I'm kinda done with them. Anyone have any suggestions for a mail provider? I'm not yet willing to self-host that.

Check out Wealthfront's "Individual Cash Account" it's a HYSA that makes it really easy to move money in/out of it (including a debit card) and gives you 4.5% APY for a "boostable" amount of time (DM me for a "friend" link that will boost yours and mine). Base APY is 4%. Zero account fees and no minimum balance to earn. They also do free ATM reimbursement, free wire transfers and send/deposit checks. Plus the app has pretty good ratings. I've been really happy with it.

just tell people to join mastodon.social. problem solved

Which is a great workaround but then all your private notes are on Google's servers, accessible to anyone with enough admin rights on their end. All apps should be end-to-end encrypted going into 2025. There's no reason security AND privacy shouldn't be included.

I've never seen constant login reminders, but I've only used it in a browser, and the Android/Window/Linux apps are you seeing it on iOS? Maybe its a bug? If you go to settings in the app and then click "Help and support" > "Report an issue" you can open a github issue. I've had really good success in getting issues resolved.

Anyone able to download & seed this? I'd like to download & help seed when I'm able to get to my PC.

in a first, but not the last 🚩

technically yes. they just recently made the sync server open source - https://github.com/streetwriters/notesnook-sync-server - but their documentation for it is still pending.

I've been following their progress for a while and can say that they appear to be following through on all their goals. and are very responsive to issues on GitHub. but don't take my word for it, check out their roadmap to see when they release the self hosting documentation- https://notesnook.com/roadmap/

but I thought apple were the good guys /s