"Open source" would be good. That phrase is now widely understood by the layman. From my point of view, however, people are unable to keep a thought. The shorter, the better in the marketing world, I would say.
I very much like the simplicity of "A discussion platform for communities". If one wants to highlight the one feature that sets Lemmy apart from others, then adding "decentralised" would do the job for me. As others have already said, I am not using "federated" because that can only be used when "federation" is a known word, which it absolutely is not. If you understand "federation", then you probably already know about Lemmy. So,
"Lemmy, a decentralised discussion platform for communities".
I have been following the development from the beginning and the TL;DR is that the original maintainer deleted his repository, and a new maintainer appeared out of thin air, with the original maintainer's signing keys. As of now, I would refrain from updating (the last presumed safe version to be found in the post linked below). In the future, there is a new fork from a trusted packager of the GPlay version of Syncthing-fork which might be the way forward, or one might use another client altogether.
More story: The new maintainer says they got the keys from the original maintainer after agreeing to maintain the application instead of the original maintainer so that the original maintainer can retire. However, the alleged "transition" was done so poorly (more like sketchy as all ...) that the community has mostly decided to, at least for now, not blindly trust the new maintainer as there is no indication from the original maintainer that such a transition was indeed done, and that nothing malicious is going on. Nothing malicious has been found for now, but everything is sketchy as ... Time might help mend the broken trust, but I would say that at this point and with the behaviour of the new maintainer so far, that is somewhat unlikely.
Read more on this in the official Syncthing forum post.
DivestOS and its apps will not receive any further updates.
Sadly, that means that there is basically no privacy-respecting Firefox-based Android web browser as of now which works out-of-the-box.
There is IronFox, a Mull fork, but it remains to be seen whether they are trustworthy and can keep up with the updates. In the meantime, a hardened Fennec is probably the best we can do.
I just recently gave Jujutsu a go, and I must say, it is a pleasure to work with VCS now. As opposed to Git, jj just makes sense and does exactly what I want it to do. No issues whatsoever. And if there is a need (which it is not most of the time), one can just fall back to Git and its ecosystem.
It is definitely worth looking at. I am working with mostly blog posts RSS feeds, but this might come useful one of these days, too. Thank you for the suggestion.
My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?
Never thought about it, but yes, this is exactly what I need. I like to experiment with extensions, so I have a plethora of extensions, which I often turn on and off. Therefore, most of them are just in the dropdown menu and scrolling through the menu is taking way too long for my taste.
As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
Brave Search currently, but I am still in the experimenting and search engine-hopping phase. Henceforth, Brave Search is not my final search engine, either.
I had used it for a while in the past. The results were surprisingly good. I have moved to other search engines to experiment since then, but I have nothing bad to say about my time with Qwant.
Syncthing encrypts the data, so it will be encrypted when being transferred. However, Aegis can export the vault into an encrypted file, too. So the vault file you will be transferring over an encrypted channel is encrypted itself as well. That means that the vault is secure even when at rest on some device.
"Open source" would be good. That phrase is now widely understood by the layman. From my point of view, however, people are unable to keep a thought. The shorter, the better in the marketing world, I would say.
I very much like the simplicity of "A discussion platform for communities". If one wants to highlight the one feature that sets Lemmy apart from others, then adding "decentralised" would do the job for me. As others have already said, I am not using "federated" because that can only be used when "federation" is a known word, which it absolutely is not. If you understand "federation", then you probably already know about Lemmy. So,
"Lemmy, a decentralised discussion platform for communities".
I have been following the development from the beginning and the TL;DR is that the original maintainer deleted his repository, and a new maintainer appeared out of thin air, with the original maintainer's signing keys. As of now, I would refrain from updating (the last presumed safe version to be found in the post linked below). In the future, there is a new fork from a trusted packager of the GPlay version of Syncthing-fork which might be the way forward, or one might use another client altogether.
More story: The new maintainer says they got the keys from the original maintainer after agreeing to maintain the application instead of the original maintainer so that the original maintainer can retire. However, the alleged "transition" was done so poorly (more like sketchy as all ...) that the community has mostly decided to, at least for now, not blindly trust the new maintainer as there is no indication from the original maintainer that such a transition was indeed done, and that nothing malicious is going on. Nothing malicious has been found for now, but everything is sketchy as ... Time might help mend the broken trust, but I would say that at this point and with the behaviour of the new maintainer so far, that is somewhat unlikely.
Read more on this in the official Syncthing forum post.
Looks good so far. But it remains to be seen whether the maintainers prove to be trustworthy and can keep up with the updates.
There is. As per the latest announcement from DivestOS:
Sadly, that means that there is basically no privacy-respecting Firefox-based Android web browser as of now which works out-of-the-box.
There is IronFox, a Mull fork, but it remains to be seen whether they are trustworthy and can keep up with the updates. In the meantime, a hardened Fennec is probably the best we can do.
I just recently gave Jujutsu a go, and I must say, it is a pleasure to work with VCS now. As opposed to Git,
jjjust makes sense and does exactly what I want it to do. No issues whatsoever. And if there is a need (which it is not most of the time), one can just fall back to Git and its ecosystem.It is definitely worth looking at. I am working with mostly blog posts RSS feeds, but this might come useful one of these days, too. Thank you for the suggestion.
Exactly. Otherwise, DecSync would be perfect (and I even used DecSync in the past).
Aha, I haven't thought about using the same Linux application. This approach might be worth investigating. Thank you for the idea.
My only gripe with RSS is the usual dependency on a synchronization server (whether it is a 3rd party server or self-hosted). I have been searching for way too long for a local-first RSS application for both Linux and Android which would store the RSS feeds (as in, the downloaded posts) in a local folder that could be then synchronized between Linux and Android applications using Syncthing or similar. Sadly, still no results. Anyone know about something?
Never thought about it, but yes, this is exactly what I need. I like to experiment with extensions, so I have a plethora of extensions, which I often turn on and off. Therefore, most of them are just in the dropdown menu and scrolling through the menu is taking way too long for my taste.
I have been using the previous version since before it was pulled down. I still think Raccoon is the best Lemmy client I came up across.
While I disagree with you, this made me chuckle. A great joke. Wish you all the best.
As a researcher, I am very happy that recently all the conferences and journals we usually publish to champion open access publishing. Due to this, all my work is currently FOSS and all the papers open access. That is a great change to the papers of the past where you have to have an affiliation to a university to get access to a paper and sometimes even that is not enough.
"Happy to help." or "Hope it helps."
I especially appreciate that the graph is designed as "Linux" and "Other" instead of "Windows", maybe "MacOS" and "Other".
You are mistaking KMail (desktop client by KDE) and K-9 Mail (Android client that is being rebranded into Thunderbird for Android).
Brave Search currently, but I am still in the experimenting and search engine-hopping phase. Henceforth, Brave Search is not my final search engine, either.
I had used it for a while in the past. The results were surprisingly good. I have moved to other search engines to experiment since then, but I have nothing bad to say about my time with Qwant.
Syncthing encrypts the data, so it will be encrypted when being transferred. However, Aegis can export the vault into an encrypted file, too. So the vault file you will be transferring over an encrypted channel is encrypted itself as well. That means that the vault is secure even when at rest on some device.