I think I’m probably slowly transitioning to “the ghost” but more as a matter of digital minimalism than for privacy lmao

I think people should really read books like digital minimalism by cal Newport, stolen focus, surveillance capitalism, your brain on porn ecc to understand how social medias (but the internet in general) IS DESIGNED to be addictive, and what are the addictive traits.

Lemmy is definitely better but still holds some concepts from addictive social medias (not because of developers fault, I think they just tried mimicking popular socials, since these are born as “alternatives”). Infinite scrolling and upvotes are just two examples.

Some frontends do a great job leaving power to the user in that, like eternity, but I think a lot more consciousness should be raised on the topic and, at least in the open source / federated community there should be some guidelines on how to design social medias just as useful tools while minimizing distractions/useless/addictive parts.

It’s great to be decentralized, it’s great to avoid ads, profilation and targetization, but we can do better in designing really new and useful tools starting from certain principles.

No I actually prefer GNOME, but have to use KDE because I need specific features (kiosk mode), but yes I feel like Gnome is so much better integrated with its defaults apps!

Glad to know xfce has a kiosk mode, I wonder if it’s easier to set up than KDE or GNOME…

UFW definitely and maybe also selinux or apparmor to give internet access only to applications that need access!

How is the user experience compared to matrix? Is it easy to gateway towards matrix or other services? Can I easily join matrix or other communities servers?

I see a lot of people are now using matrix but not so many xmpp, but yeah it hoggs resources on my server too. Also I feel like it’s still pretty buggy…

Didn’t know about CENO, it looks super cool! Might have to dig more into TOR as well

Maybe search engines idk, something like Yucy?

Exactly! I don’t see why we have to rely on the old internet infrastructure for a completely differently conceived type of distributing content!

There’s stuff like ipfs, and I’m sure there are many ways to make self hosting easier…

We normalize everyone has a modem/router/access point at home: we should normalize everyone having his own server hosted, bitcoin node, ipfs node etc etc…

And your right, these services have to be super easy to deploy… I think containerization might be helping with this… Think about docker or Nixos… Make a nice GUI and simplify docker even more and you get packages that can run on any distro in any OS, that even a complete noob could spin up! Maybe paired with repos that host most of the self hostable stuff.

But yeah I think the whole structure might be have to be rethought, from the way we host to the way we can connect to each other… We got to give everyone the possibility to decide which web they want to be part of, and federation definitely allows this!

Yes please

Any suggestions on the how?

It looks really complicated, very different from Linux! I cannot understand properly all the sandboxing thing… But I guess it’s years of development and policies enforcement… Now I can see why Android it’s much more closed compared to a normal Linux distro, I guess this provides a lot of security but less customization. I also have to understand the role of the device manager in all of this. Is there any Linux distro that behaves similarly?

Why so much effort into securing it? Isn’t the Linux behaviour with users etc enough?

No it’s more a user management thing, I would need users to access a certain list of whitelisted websites only…

Maybe proxy or dns? I’ve been looking in squid proxy but it looks fairly complicated, especially if I wanna be able to access it from wan… But Idk if with DNS I could block ips as well. Setting up an hosts file seems like a lot of continuous work since I would have to specify entries for each ip address associated with domain… Maybe firewall?

This is a lovely story