yes, things like age/gender/location/etc are the things that aren’t private on reddit but mostly are on fediverse. your instance admin could see your IP and use GeoIP for location but that’s it, a simple VPN can solve that. and unlike reddit where they do targeted ads and resell data, fedi instance operators are mostly hobbyists and I doubt that really happens… if you’re really worried you could just use throwaway accounts with a vpn and remain private.

you’re on a public forum and writing posts/comments in public which is pretty obvious, so i don’t see how that’s ‘no better’ than reddit. your votes are also public but that’s just how the fediverse works. unlike reddit everything’s (literally) transparent here, modlogs and everything.

yeah i occasionally do this with epubs from shadow libraries. it’s not foss but i use Lithium (com.faultexception.reader) for it. only works for epub, but it’s very lightweight/fast and not privacy invading. there’s a pro version but the free one seems to work fine, and i couldn’t find any cracked versions. having my volup btn for next page is very useful for one hand reading in mass transit.

unfortunately i can’t get new batteries, the battery life isn’t good but it’s usable as i don’t really use my phone much. also have 6 replacable batteries that i carry sometimes.

for now my group will migrate to zulip and their app works on my phone, i was just trying to attempt xmpp too since it’s always great to have more options (and possibly setup xmpp as a backup to the zulip room with matterbridge on physically distant server)

it runs like crap on my phone since it’s 12 years old. conversations.im works but it’s features can’t completely replace discord, at least for my friends.

thanks. i guess it’s as good as the other electron/web based clients on desktop, but on mobile is PWA okay to use? my phone is too old and suffers with everything but well optimized native apps, so my experience doesn’t match others’.

weird, try changing archive.is to archive.md or archive.today. /latest/{url} redirects to the latest for that url, and /{url} redirects to the list of captures for that url

fyi you can just do something like https://archive.is/latest/https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2026-02-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/your-car-is-spying-on-you-and-israeli-firms-are-leading-the-surveillance-race/0000019c-6651-d2f0-a19c-7fdd81920000

KeePassXC ftw

the clients still feel extremely buggy to use and has poor ux, there are too many frictions overall. surely it works for some people, but it feels not optimal for me. i even tried it with a quite techie friend once and they had extremely bad experience with it that they’re now skeptical of any alternative chat systems i ask them to try out with…

my solution is Zulip/XMPP/IRC/Jitsi, none of them can replace every functions of discord but they partially can and it seems like they’ll work for my use case.