Voip dot ms employs a ton of countermeasures versus skript kiddies as voip fraud is a severe problem. You are unlikely to have much luck with Tor Browser. I have to ask them to take my boring data center IP off their greylist every time I want to add cash to my balance.

try voip dot ms

Save yourself a lot of trouble and get a hardware SIP phone like the Grandstream WP826. I spent years struggling with software phones, most of them suck ass and the good ones aren’t very good.

quick unboxing video

Then make sure to enable voice transport encryption and set SIP transport to TLS (not UDP) and set keepalive timers to something below 3 minutes or so. The encryption settings are not just for security, using TLS for SIP transport has way fewer problems with incoming calls than UDP in 2025 network environments.

There are some firmware issues with the Grandstream WP826 but they are steadily releasing new firmware updates every month or two. If you need absolute bulletproof reliability go for something more expensive, otherwise the WP826 or similar model will likely be good enough (I say that as someone who is easily vexed by shitty software/electronics)

allowing Instagram is like rolling out the red carpet for the vampire as a method of inviting it in, and then maybe having the kids lie down so their bare necks are on a silver platter.

There have in fact been huge discussions of this in the past, which maybe you’d already know about if you didn’t come in hot mouthing off about how things need to be changed to fit your preferences immediately, chop chop!

Turns out the type of blocking you want requires a great deal more code than you (clearly) can imagine in order to be actually functional, as opposed to a fig leaf requiring the full cooperation of every server involved.

This was discussed ad nauseam maybe about 5 years ago, with long hellthreads in microblogging fedi, complex deep-dive technical blog posts, the whole nine yards. No I didn’t save links and I wish I had because this and related issues (Mastodon’s fig leaf “privacy” settings, E2EE DMs) keep coming up.

The answer is that what you are asking for can either be implemented as a porous fig leaf which falls apart the very first time some asshole spins up an instance which doesn’t respect it and vacuums up your posts en masse, or it can be implemented using cryptography which requires an enormous amount of work by extremely well-educated CompSci types to implement a standard, and then implement code libraries, and only then can the developers of platforms like Lemmy and Mastodon get started on implementing the actual feature. No one is paying anyone to do this, and it’s not clear that people with the necessary expertise are even available to develop the standard and the code, nor is it clear that everyone would adopt it if they did. So up til now, it hasn’t been done.

If I block someone on Mastodon or another Fediverse microblogging instance, they’re blocked. Because that part of the Fediverse was built by people who had been harassed and doxxed off other platforms.

Evidently you missed the many (many) discussions that took place maybe 5 years ago by some of those exact builders about how this is, and remains, only a fig leaf which requires every server to cooperate in maintaining the illusion.

I wish I’d saved links based on how often this comes up. There are fundamental issues with how federated systems in general and ActivityPub in particular work, and “real” blocking is one of them. People running other instances can modify the code however they want, and no technical measures have been implemented (because it turns out to be very difficult to do so) to prevent any node operator from removing the fig leaf.

Including Germany, which has draconian laws against criticizing Israel’s genocidal actions and fascist regime, as demonstrated by the recent drama over feddit.org?

Laws aren’t identical across the EU. If you are aggregating content from a bunch of instances, there will be content aggregated that’s illegal in one place and not another.

If you can stomach bitcoin bros, check out Nostr, it works more like this.

But I don’t like them and don’t want them in my feed.

Mass-market slop troughs exist for a reason.

I, and a lot of other fedizens, don’t want the type of people who use BlueSky and Facebook in my ActivityPub fediverse.

Fedi is cool because it’s small, weird, and highly enriched with people I’m actually interested in communicating with. I don’t need or want the pool to be diluted with an ocean of piss.

Currently in a holding pattern because, while I got RAM & SSD for a new-to-me “1-liter” server before tariffs hit, I don’t have the server itself nor any money to buy one, despite looking for 9th or 10th gen Intel which will cost me only $120 to $150 barebones.

Money to buy one is not coming in because the place where I live has nonstop noise & activity and I don’t have a separate room or any door I can close, which severely limits my ability to work as I have auditory hypersensitivity and an absolute need for solitude in order to recharge enough to think. 🤷🏻

everybody downvoting your comment has zero experience being the go-to family tech guy for relatives in their 80s and 90s who can’t reliably distinguish between windows, dialog boxes, menus, and buttons

Ah okay, this is what I was thinking of.

Sounds like Peertube admins can also proactively choose to mirror videos from other instances too?

Very nice. Would be cool to get some kind of massive user influx and see how well it does under load.

Thanks for doing this.

How does the p2p work? I thought there was a bittorrent-like aspect to it but what you’re describing sounds different.

As far as I know the p2p only potentially applies when >1 global users are watching a video simultaneously.

edit: am I wrong? I thought they had bittorrent-like swarming.

lol the downvote counter just ticked up a couple times as I was tapping around trying to figure out wtf

The text here is just copypasta about what Peertube is, not about the so-called v1 app.

More useful: https://joinpeertube.org/news/app-v1

Unfortunately, this reveals that one apparently still can’t upload or manage a channel from the mobile app 🤦🏻

one important aspect: it defrays the cost of hosting popular videos somewhat via a bittorrent-like mechanism. but as I understand it, they have to be popular enough that >1 person on the planet is watching them simultaneously for this to make a difference.

please tell me I can actually upload videos and, like, do anything at all with my channel now

edit: god dammit 🤦🏻