Your freedom is in the (theoretical) ability run your own instance and communities on it if you disagree with or have been banned from other instances. And your instance can federate with whomever will allow it.
Communities also want freedom -- to be organized and run the way they want to be, and to be free from being hijacked or shit on uncontrollably by randos, bad actors, or even (defined by themselves) undesirables.
It's not perfect. But you sometimes have to consider a bigger picture than just your personal freedom, to make things a free as practically possible.
NextCloud has end-to-end encrypted voice and video chat, and of course a whole bunch else, since people are mentioning self-hosting. The corresponding Android app "nextcloud talk".
There is a general perception now with many in the US and even more among the US's partners that the US government is now actively regressive, making life more difficult for most of its citizens and partners, and indeed the world. China, despite its shortcomings, is mostly seen as making progress at raising living standards, moving more towards being environmentally responsible, and as a stable and predictable partner.
Whatever the complicated on the ground realities, these are some of the ways that make China currently seem to look better too many. Since you ask.
I also can't find releases on mobile. I see a bunch of f-froid publishing stuff at bottom or readme. Doesn't seem to be on f-froid now, but maybe will show up there eventually.
Use Caddy for reverse proxy. It's magic. Just put in config the subdomain/domain and localhost port to point to, it will fetch and configure and keep certificates up to date with zero effort. You'll forget certificates exist. It just works.
I'm stuck with boxed falafel mixes here. And sadly most of them are not very good. I've tried a several. The only one I found acceptable enough to buy again my area is a brand called Tamam from Jordan. It's not great, but it's the best of the worst for me. I sometimes supliment it with fresh parsley (finely chopped) if I happen to have any. This is from a regular Canadian grocery store, so may be fairly common?
Anyhow, sorry I'm not much help. Good luck with your more ambitious falafel plans! Sounds great.
Glad you found a happy cozy home. Appreciative that I can reply to you from heart of the old beast!
Relative to all the well known commercial social media platforms though aren't we all into something here hardly anyone else knows about, whether 10 users or a few thousand?
Company I worked for a dozen years ago, who had many significant clients, already had most of their logos created by randos on Fiverr for pocket change.
This blog post hyperbolically has "do-or-die moment" in title, and then concludes with with the final breathless line, "we must act now, before it is too late" (which it claims is "every scientist's most familiar motto", whatever that means). Yet nowhere at all in the blog post or the paper is any suggestion of what "act" could or should be done to avoid this "die" condition.
The "limitations" section of the article is a bit telling (and at least seemingly honest).
relies "on the instances of scientific fraud that have been reported" (i.e. someone else has already detected fraud and "acted" on it)
speculates that there's a lot more fraud, but has no way to quantify or measure, so it is just speculation
"temporal changes in detection effort or in the attention paid to different fields may produce spurious trends" (um, okay, so we don't even know if the data they do have is comprehensive enough)
"systematic fraudulent activity has always been large but that only now has been detected" (ah, an alternate hypothesis just thrown out there that could invalidate the entire conclusion, but is not explored)
not actually in the limitations section, but elsewhere it is also noted
I like also how the blog post admits, 'there is still no standard definition of what a “paper mill” actually is.' In fact no definition is offered by the blog post or the article, though the term is used constantly. (As though the problems of "paper mills" hasn't been a known concern for dozens of years already.)
The blog post concludes with "If the model public goods game offers any prognostication". But the "game" model is one that the author just made up earlier in the post, and arbitrarily setting the rules, boundaries and parameters for. So basically this is saying, "if my [extremely simplistic] made up analogy is true..."
I sympathize with the authors' concerns, but this article seem to me to have a lot of problems, and not offer much of what was promised. Can't help but wonder if PNAS picked it up just for flame-bait... which would be ironic.
Depends how you read it. There are a few usages of the word. It's pretty awfull either way.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/starve