I have it. I would use it if I had contacts there. Compared to Signal, it doesn’t force you to provide your phone number, which is great.

Another big reason to switch to GNU/Linux.

Yes, phone number should be optional for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. As Threema. You have to provide your ID when buying a sim card.

I wanted to switch from a proprietary centralized platform to a free federated one. The only inconvenience is that I find a group with same name on multiple instances, each with its own content. Instead of one containing them all.

I have it and used it in the past. It’s better in privacy than Signal since it’s decentralized and doesn’t use any identifiers. Signal forces you to use the worst identifier ever: your phone number. It should be optional (as Threema) for easy contact discovery, not mandatory. Back to SimpleX, I stopped using it because every time you have to connect the computer to phone if you want to use it from computer (it’s for maximum security, but inconvenient for me). But it’s a great app.

Some financial rewards would be better than nothing, of course. But governments have no interest in doing that. Because they want new work-slaves to bring them money each month from working 8-9 hours a day.

1. Using software; 2. Telling my friends about it; 3. Helping others in forums; 4. Donating money, or bitcoin when available; 5. Running software that helps the network (Full Bitcoin Node, Tor Relay, SheepIT Render Farm - for Blender); 6. Translating.

Yes, sim calls and sms are not private, both on dumb and smart phones. They also connect to cell towers so your location might be found. Anyway, I think the hardware and software of a smartphone is more capable of surveillance you than a dumbphone. The only realistic way is to leave the phone home and keep a paper list of your contacts at you. And call them from a stranger if you need to. I did this and the biggest inconvenience is that I can’t take pictures or videos (I might buy a camera, I don’t know if they have location system incorporated).

Great decision to move to GNU/Linux. I used Mint and recommend it as first distro for a Windows begginer. I always use a USB stick for back-up. Enjoy the journey!

Until last child is adopted, people shouldn’t make any more children. And even if that happens, it’s better to help existing children with your spare time and money, instead of creating new ones.

Google wants to control everything. So bad operating systems can’t be installed on phones as easy as on computers.

Try to fix the mistakes. If you can’t, just let them go. No need to live in the past.

Great news. Public institutions should never buy or use proprietary software.

There is a great cheat sheet made by Ubuntu.

Hello guys! Congratulations for your work on so many services! I have a question about Mobilizon: if I want to see events from Bucharest, is there a way to see events from all the instances, or do I have to search on each instance? Thank you!

I use Trisquel because it is recommended by FSF, is based on Ubuntu and I like Mate environment.

Reddit has a big community. It’s about networking effect. That’s why so hard to leave big platforms, because you can migrate to FOSS alternatives, but maybe most of things/people you follow don’t have accounts there.

Ubuntu (because I have seen it on laptops in shops), Debian (because I found out that Ubuntu is based on Debian, is a community distro instead of a company distro), OpenSuse (I wanted to try something different to apt, it looked different), Zorin (because I loved the custom desktop environments), Mint (because a software I needed didn’t work on Zorin, and because Cinnamon DE was very friendly), Trisquel (because it’s 100%, recommended by FSF). I also tested other distros in VM’s (Steam, Guix System, Pure OS, Dragora, Dynebolic, Alpine, Slackware and that’s all I remember). A really beautiful journey!

There must be foss alternatives to every proprietary software. Big thanks to GNU and Linus Torvalds that joined their forces and created GNU/Linux!

Trisquel, Pure OS, Mint.