I just use RSS feeds of the YouTube channels I want to follow. I am sure that will be taken away from us soon to force us to do things the way they want. Until then ... go RSS!
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I am more interested in following topics than following individuals, so I use Lemmy way more than Mastodon.
Let say there is a news story of a horrible event. I will up vote it so people see it and read it to learn. I am not up voting it because I am promoting the horrible event.
"Think harder." You are already thinking, trying to come up with an answer and aren't able to. What does "think harder" even mean?
I want a stable OS, but I want the latest versions of applications (programs) without messing up anything. For me flatpak and snap meet that need, but I prefer flatpak.
The majority of my information comes from RSS feeds. However, I depend on Lemmy (formerly I depended on Reddit) for the things that pop up in an area of interest that I might other wise have missed.
Feedbro is a very good RSS reader. It installs as an extension to Firefox.
Will it be available on F-droid?
They could if starting out it was easier. Once you hit people with "sign up for any instance ..." you will loose the majority of non-technical people.
Make student loan rates fair, and the cost of education fair, and I bet people would be willing and able to pay off their loans like so many of us did back in the day. I feel bad for people that have been taken advantage by this system.
Fixed in version 5.3
Use Linux, a VPN, Firefox with containers and multiple privacy add-ons. I use Veracrypt volumes to store "private" information in the cloud.