Matrix has spaces, which are collections of rooms.

There's also XMPP. It's not quite the same as discord, but it's another federated chat protocol.

It's not federated, but revolt.chat is probably the closest open source discord alternative.

The're not meaningless. There's plenty of stronger strategies if you can coordinate them, but protests are still useful, and easier to get people started on.

Even if it doesn't have an immediate effect, protests help get people connected and organized. They find others in their area they can work with, and groups learn to coordinate with each other better. It can inspire people seeing how many others agree with them, and get them more active and engaged.

@[email protected] made a browser addon for this.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/lemmy-language-memorizer/

Pixelfed has more than 100,000 active users, about 5 times what it was 6 months ago, so I wouldn't really call it dead. And with the fediverse, pixelfed and mastodon can talk to each other, so even on less active platforms you can connect with millions of other people. Most of the accounts I follow on pixelfed are from mastodon.

There's also [email protected]

They separated pretty far back, so they're about equally related to jackals, dogs, wild dogs, various wolf species, and coyotes.

Ancient DNA is pretty degraded, so it's hard to get an exact number. It's estimated they diverged more than 5 million years ago, so it's probably hundreds or thousands of different genes.

wikipedia article

Scientists rewrote 14 key genes in gray wolf EPC cells to express 20 dire wolf traits meaning that "no ancient dire wolf DNA was actually spliced into the gray wolf's genome."

It's still impressive, but they only changed 14 genes. These are much more wolf than dire wolf.

It reminded me of Iji.

There's pinetta that's inspired by pinterest, but the repo hasn't been updated in a couple years.

There's this playlist from donoteat01 explaining city planning using Cities Skylines.

They're not browsers, but if you want lemmy in the terminal there's Neon Modem Overdrive, which also handles Discourse forums and some other sites. For emacs there's lem.el.

Fascist ideas don't spread because they make good points. They spread because they get repeated so much. People who don't know any better believe it because they've heard it so many times, or from someone they trust. Federating with fascists gives them more people to spread their ideas to.

Talking to conservatives can definitely help, but it really depends on the context. Just having people who they disagree with in their lives can can be helpful. If you're someone they trust you might get them to work through some things. Or if you know a topic really well and know what talking points they're likely to bring up. But it's nearly impossible to get though to people who already hate you.

Everyone is at a different place with what they want to handle. Some people just want a small friendly community where they have a chance to relax. Others want a more open communities that only keep out the worst. And some are okay with putting up with harassment to reach more people. But generally we shouldn't force others to put up with that harassment along with us.

I generally prefer to federate with as many communities as possible, but federating with fascists is a terrible idea. You're just making people in your community vulnerable to harassment.

People are self organizing onto these instances, and if they don't like their current one it's not hard to move. Most people won't move to one that allows nazis in.

There's also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.

I'm pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I'd generally recommend against doing this.

I just want to add that it's not just the idea of gender being immutable, it's identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don't match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.

I haven't seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there's bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There's a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn't suprise me if there's something out there.

Sorted them into a few categories

Social

• Cheogram - xmpp chat, can also handle phone and sms gateways
• Fedilab - my preferred fediverse app for mastodon
• Jerboa - preferred lemmy app
• K-9 Mail - email
• Pixelix - pixelfed app. not sure if I like this or PixelDroid better yet

Media

• AntennaPod - podcasts
• Kiwix - offline copies of useful wikis, q&as, archives, etc.
• Librera FD - books
• NewPipe - watch youtube videos, although google keeps trying to break it
• Voice - audiobooks

Security

• Aegis - two factor authentication
• KeePassDX - password management
• WG Tunnel - VPN connection, still not sure if this is the best option

Notes and Documents

• Orgzly Revised - note taking. for people not familiar with emacs something like logseq or safe notes might be better
• Pinkt - bookmarks
• Syncthing-Fork - synchronize files between devices

System

• F-Droid - technically it can install itself
• Lawnchair - alternative home screen / app launcher
• ntfy - runs in the background, handles push notifications for some other apps
• Unexpected Keyboard - has the fancy keys that most android keyboards leave out

Other Tools

• Fennec - basically firefox
• Organic Maps - sometimes missing info and it doesn't have traffic data. simpler than OsmAnd
• PocketPaint - make art on your phone
• QuickDict - offline multi-language dictionary

I've got hundreds more installed, but those are some of my favorites.