Negative thoughts flooded my mind. The EU is constantly trying to push Chat Control. They’re blocking bootloaders on phones, introducing ID and face scanning everywhere, in the US they’re trying to push system-level verification, corporations are spitting in our faces and don’t even hide it. I know we have to fight. My personal rebellion was joining Fediverse and Lemmy and quitting Reddit. But seriously, boss—I’m tired. Are our attempts to preserve internet freedom futile? Can we win against corporations and politicians who we pay but don’t listen to us?
Just do your part and don’t get discouraged. You don’t have to do everything. Walk the walk, talk the talk. If things don’t work out, at least you tried; that’s more than the majority did.
Do what you do no because of some expected local or global outcome, but because it’s right.
Time to help build a new type of network: https://reticulum.network/
I have experience in programming and building computer systems. 12 years of experience and self-education. The project you linked looks promising. I’m always the first to support and contribute to such projects but we lack infrastructure for this to become a thing
Great! Here’s the thing: power will not build this network, people must. Node by node. You alone can service an decent area with $100 LoRa node and an (for bootstrap) I2P backhaul. I fundamentally believe something like this is essential for a free future — be the change you want to see.
Agreed. And we can easily bridge existing net to alternative transmission mediums while the existing net allows. Providing an easier time for others to adopt. I run a reticulum node as well.
We can even start community VPN and use site to site VPN to build a new internet!
Running a node myself and it’s fun!
TL:DR: Yes. Long answer: It’s complicated.
Yes and honestly we better learn to enjoy the struggle because it’s never going away. We will always have to push back.
There’s always a way. It’ll just get maybe harder to do at most
The EU isnt trying to push chat control. If it was then the EU wouldn’t have shot it down multiple times like it has been.
Lobbyists are the ones trying to push chat control on the EU.
How do you even type an em-dash?
I use Heliboard – on Android — which has a lot of different dashes when you long·press the -regular- dash.
With Linux you can use the compose key or some key combinations, usually with a modifier like AltGr or Shift+Alt.
On my system, I can use the compose key to type a bunch of unicode chars, such as
—,…,≠,→and so on. Sadly, the pervasive use of em-dashes by LLMs ruined my use of them… It’s a pity, because I quite like them stylistically.Dunno, I think autocorrection on my phone placed it for me
Most word processors do it for you If you type space dash space then any letter, it will convert the dash to an emdash when the letter is typed.
Can someone 😇 please crash (DOS) more times this services so that people find other options (WhatsApp> signal, X>fediverse, etc)? It’s always been like that when there’s a blackout…
