bastyon.com is great, it is a decentralized twitter, they have an open source app as well

Definitely Mullvad, the whole point of VPN is to stay private and Proton does not accept crypto while Mullvad does.

If the VPN has your payment details then any privacy just goes out the window.

This is delusional. The real solution is money that cannot be corrupted by some politician’s or banker’s decree.

Open source technology and cryptography gives us this ability. Now the playing field is leveled, ordinary people can hold and transact real value without some crook reaching into their pocket.

You think that current government is not controlled by dollar signs? The state is just a tool of the banks and the military industrial complex, all they do is lie in order to conduct mass murder.

Crypto is our opportunity to put power and control back into the people’s hands by ripping control over currency from banking and corporate interests.

Private governance cannot be any worse than current governance, maybe we will get less mass murder known as war.

Let’s not call for imprisoning people based on some arbitrary demographic. It borders on bigotry.

Like it or not crypto is the future of finance. Learn it or be left behind.

This is great news. Brave is a great browser, block all the trash ads by default plus has many enhanced privacy features. 👍

Switched to the f-droid version, one less app that I need to pull from Aurora 😃

Looks like it’s time for us to step up and fund what we like and use.

Just visit congress.gov and you have your list.

https://retoswap.com/ is the functioning instance of Haveno DEX. The main project does not run a live network.

Would be awesome if Freetube could automatically check if the video exists on Odysee and play it from there if YT copy is unavailable or blocked.

Really glad I do not have a google account and avoid all of their services. 🙂

Yes, Odysee is much better than YT, they will not block you for using a VPN and you can use burner a email to sign up. They also do not have annoying ads every 3 minutes, they have zero ads. Sad that so many creators refuse to post their content on other platforms and continue to support YT’s tyrannical monopoly. Still there is a pretty good selection on there.

I think you may be a bit off the mark on that prediction. Bastyon already has an order of magnitude more users than Lemmy.

https://bastyon.com/bastyon_team?s=be343ea63fce804e1aad0047d3eb3a9135f9d1afa317a44cad034d58483f1bc0

This is only the website, there are also ~100k app users.

what advantages does it have over hosting your own fedi server

Specifically in the context of this post you cannot be forced to collect any data on users or be prosecuted for not collecting because you are not hosting accounts, they are on-schain. Fedi is a very different type of platform and not really a direct alternative. Bastyon is trying to compete with twitter mainly IMO.

You do not get any special access or control by hosting a server because it is just a node that relays data. This makes the network more robust and faster as a user’s app will connect to the fastest nodes for a better experience.

Here is an in-depth article about the platform

https://www.publish0x.com/at-scottcbusiness/the-guide-to-bastyon-and-pkoin-xznxqdk

How does Bastyon work? - https://bastyon.com/help?page=faq

You do not understand the platform and are speaking out of ignorance. You do not need to run a node to use the platform and no one can stop you from joining.

If you run a node you participate in the network, your user does not reside or originate from your node it is distributed as all metadata is stored on chain.

Maybe it’s not for you, no one is forcing you to use it, it is not all about you.

A woman protesting an oppressive regime with her posts may find it is the only safe place without getting her identity reported back to the oppressive state as all corporate owned platforms would do.

Good job looking into it a bit instead of freaking out like most others on here. It is running and working and has been for over 6 years if I am not mistaken, it was named pocketnet previously.

Users do not have to pay to publish. Advertisers can pay to boost content and get visibility. There are many people dedicated to free speech and anti-censorship so they will continue to run nodes even if they are not turning a profit. At this point nodes stake coins and earn rewards, not sure of the long term tokenomics, have not gone super deep on it.

If they pass a law that social media platforms need to collect ID the instance you run will have to collect ID or shut down. No single entity runs Bastyon and no ID laws can be enforced.