I got started with [email protected], just 3 posts so far. I’d like to see askhistorians & askscience communities gaining more traction.

Perhaps, but pixelfed.social is said to be fine with the traffic as mentioned here. Did you try after some time? Were you able to get past it?

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The apps are listed on the official website. The official app is in public beta, but I hope it gets a public release soon. You can follow @[email protected] on mastodon for updates. There are also 3rd party apps, but I haven’t tried any.

Yes, but things can change. Stories of Mastodon and Lemmy are inspiring. When Reddit backslash happened, Lemmy was already there as a good alternative for people to switch to. So was the case of Mastodon with the Twitter exodus. It’s good that we’ve Pixelfed, it may be just a matter of time.

Stories feature is there. But I haven’t used it myself, so I can’t tell more about it.

India recently introduced Digital Personal Data Protection Act. But, unlike what it sounds, it does more harm than good to the privacy of citizens.

Some of the most contentious issues include the wide-ranging exemptions to the government and its agencies, the dilution of powers of the data protection board, and amendment of the Right to Information Act, that rights groups say will significantly weaken the law.

https://www.reuters.com/article/india-tech-lawmaking-idUKL8N38W0JR

I’ve heard that in such situations one can drop such docs, with address, in any postbox nearby and the postal worker will deliver them. I’ve never tried this myself & I don’t know if people actually do that, but sounded like a good idea to me.

Anyway, I understand that the underlying issue is more important and finding any immediate solution alone won’t help. It’s much more important to spread awareness about the importance of privacy.

• https://www.privacytools.io
• https://www.socialcooling.com

There are many, but right now it’s definitely “Infinity for Lemmy” ❤ (Available from IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo).

Exactly. The questions section on their homepage says this: “Peer-to-peer broadcasting - It reduces server bandwidth overload if a video becomes viral;”.

Compared to other fediverse platforms like mastodon and lemmy, peertube will obviously have more storage requirements though. And as usual, having many small instances is always better than a small number of large instances.

Mastodon supports account migration. You can export the list of your followers and the accounts you follow as CSV and import them from another instance. But there’s no option to import posts yet.

Also, note that when you migrate all followers in the old account will get automatically unfollowed.

For more details, see https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moving

There is also joshuto, another ranger clone, written in rust.

https://github.com/kamiyaa/joshuto

I use ranger with zoxide plugin, very handy. I even use it inside neovim as well, using rnvimr plugin.