After some thinking I have decided to block librem.one on my server. After a long discussion yesterday I was able to convince them to re-enable reports, but in that discussion I ran into red flags that made me believe their moderation decisions would not be sound - like wanting to be absolved from responsibility for white supremacist content posted on user profiles. That is a huge indicator of what kind of member of the fediverse they will be, and I am not for it. I also cannot recommend their librem.one service for any marginalized group.
@Purism, suddenly I feel u are thinking "what after giving the phone". It is like, they will buy the phone and then not turn back towards us. Well, I for one exactly know why I am buying it. I will learn my way around. Just stay calm and focus on the lbrem 5. People who have supported now will support later also. We want a floss phone. Please recognise the floss devs on whose shoulders u are building ur phone.
https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-works-upstream-and-gives-back/. What kind of explanation is this. I don't know whether they were explaining to the user or the devs of the projects they forked. They have forked many of the applications without contacting the Dev. Now, you want users to pay for services already existing. How about sharing revenue and code with, for eg, the @tusky Dev. @Purism
bsd.network has blocked the librem.one instance, because they removed all abilities for us to report abuse to them. They also removed the ability for their users to report abuse from our users, which is also pretty troublesome.
While we normally do not announce instance blocks, this is a fairly serious action on their part and needs to be pointed out publicly.
The safety of our users in the Fediverse is very important to us.
😃@purism getting so much negative publicity for your store, that too on the fediverse, is real bad. Yes, as users we want things to just work, but at sometimes we are ready to go the extra mile. I have ordered the 5. Please don't spoil the fun with 1.
So... It looks like Purism has rebranded a whole bunch bunch of existing open source apps for their new librem.one service.
On the one hand, this 100% makes sense from a development/branding perspective. Non-technical people will find this approach much less confusing.
One the other hand... I can't find ANY reference to the original projects or developers on Purism's blog or the librem.one website. SERIOUS side-eye for @purism not ACKNOWLEDGING the projects thye're building off of.
Firefox admits they will eventually be sending all of your DNS to Cloudflare. Cloudflare will monetize your internet browsing, no matter how much their PR people say they are.
If you want to disable that, go to "about:config", and set "network.trr.mode" to 5.
The values are: 0 - default off, 1 - race, 2 TRR first, 3 TRR only, 4 shadow, 5 off by choice
"Chrome on iOS is such a pain. A surprising number of people seem to use it and no one realizes it's not actually Chrome but just a crippled webkit webview missing major features:
1. No Service Worker 2. Can't print or save as PDF 3. No support for GetUserMedia
Why is this OK?!"
It's not. It's Apple blatantly crippling competitors to cement their hold on the platform and prevent any alternative. But everybody always gives Apple an pass.