I don’t think your logic is fucked frankly, it makes sense to me. The only thing I disagree with is that I think killing yourself is still giving the fascists a win. They don’t want you in their world anyway, you ending yourself just saves them the work of doing it themselves.

I fully empathize with the lack of hope, for me mainly about the climate. On the fascism side I can cling to the historical precedent that fascists are eventually bound to lose, even if they’ll cause untold damage in the meantime, but with the climate I don’t have the same hope. I simply don’t see the world having anything close to the level of collective resolve that would be needed to avert a complete catastrophe, and we’re already maybe beyond the point of no return. Every year from now on that we spend battling fascism is one more year of collective effort not spend on avoiding irreparable damage to the world’s ecosystems. We’re waist deep in the rising waters, but we can’t swim to safety because there’s a guy coming at us with a knife, and by the time we’re done fighting him the water will be at our neck anyway.

I don’t really have any words of comfort for you here. I generally oscillate between the selfish and defeatist idea of just enjoying the little privilege I have while it lasts, and the idealistic one of going out fighting even if it’s hopeless. The problem with the latter idea is that frankly I have no idea how to. It turns out that studying history a lot has prepared me well to recognize the rise of fascism, but not to know how to fight back. The material conditions we live in today are so much different than in past iterations of fascism that there’s not a lot of actionable lessons I can learn from looking at past resistance movements. The grassroots activism I do feels increasingly pointless, and I don’t see any serious organized resistance movement I could join anywhere.

It’s bleak out here. The only real argument I can make against you doing it is, frankly, spite. Don’t give them the win. Stay alive to spite them.

Yeah India is rough for solo-travelling fems. Most fems I’ve met who’ve been to India without issues traveled with masc companions (partners / friends / travel buddies met on the road).

I can confirm that continental South-East Asia is a lot safer.

Shitposting from the Rojava frontline really does give you bragging rights few in the world can claim

Brace makes me want to stop posting for good because I know I’ll never even get close to his level

Nah, Egypt has too close a relationship with Saudi Arabia to meaningfully change their stance towards Iran.

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Marx referring to himself in third person is a good bit

Nah it pretty much does mean “I don’t give a shit”, the level of rudeness is the same though

Echopraxia is still really good, maybe doesn’t hit as hard as Blindsight in comparison, but it’s still a great book IMO. The writing style is similar, it’s kind of a smoother read because the POV character isn’t as much of a “machine” as Siri. The plot is a bit messier than the first one though.

I NEED that image, badly

That’s very understandable, people shouldn’t need to have deep technical knowledge to pick a social media app…

Anyway if you do want to see that stuff this is where: https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Eternity

Yeah I’ve heard that, but I don’t really buy it. It would be a massive vulnerability that Google would have every interest in patching. They’re good at security when they want to be, and they definitely don’t want to give their direct competitor any data for free. The more likely option is that people simply give Facebook permission to use the mic, for stuff like voice messages, and Facebook abuses it. Plus we’re talking about open source hobbyist projects, not one of the biggest corpos in the world.

I had heard of it and not given it much thought, but looking at it now it might be the best looking one I’ve seen so far. Shame that it’s not open source though. Sync is closed source as well to be fair, but I’d rather not switch to another closed source one.

The problem is seemingly it’s been 5 months since anybody’s touched the code, not just 5 months since the last release. There are issues that have been open for weeks or months without any of the devs even replying to them. It’s not a great look, at least… The core Lemmy project is still in pretty active development, clients need to keep up with that. I know they’re hobby projects and the devs have no obligation to work on it, but I can’t really trust an app that might break for good at the next Lemmy release.

Newer versions of Android are fairly well locked down in terms of permissions and access to personal that, and that’s just because Google wants apps to use its own proprietary APIs to do it, like the Advertising ID. I don’t think there’s a whole lot of difference between the tracking a website can do through Firefox mobile and the tracking a native app can do. Also Firefox mobile AFAIK still hasn’t implemented full site containers, so potentially there’s the extra risk of cross-site tracking.

For images I was just being lazy, I checked the settings and there’s the “auto expand media” option which does show the full images. It still doesn’t look great to me compared to native apps though.

Yeah I don’t expect any app to support the emoji picker which is a custom Hexbear feature. I do like the look of Thunder actually, and it seems in active development. I might give it a try.

I just don’t like the default mobile UI tbh, it’s not nearly as pleasant to use as the most basic native app. Images not showing in the feed is already a big drawback by itself. I use it for posting sometimes because of the emoji picker, but otherwise I just don’t see the point of it. A native app is kinda sandboxed by definition, Hexbear doesn’t have ads (lmao, imagine), and any link opens in Fennec where I do have uBlock anyway…

Is there another web frontend I’m not aware of that’s significantly better for mobile?

Edit: also, jokes aside, I don’t get the point of this hostility towards native apps, at least for stuff I use regularly. The mobile UX is still shite for like half of all websites, including big corporate ones, why wouldn’t I use a better native UI instead?

I’m also a big fan of Infinity, I actually still use it by building it from source with a custom API token. My issue with Eternity though is that it seems abandoned, the repo hasn’t been updated in over 5 months. I’m trying to move away from Sync precisely because it is abandonware…

Oh wow ok so it’s locally banned in my country. Looks like the block is based on the phone number, a VPN doesn’t work. Thanks anyway…

Strangely enough the Quds News Network channel isn’t banned, even though it’s directly affiliated with Hamas.

I thought the RNN channel got banned, is this a new private one? Can you share an invite?