I personally like baresearch.org and SearXNG.site and switch hqcobajd forth if either gets temporarily suspended for making too many requests. I also saw a tutorial on YT on how to set up your own instance if you’re not on mobile. I do highly recommend still using ublacklist alongside SearXNG, since that helps block all the SEO spam and listicles.

Have you tried uBlacklist and SearXNG?

(Sure, I don’t mind long replies.)

In that case, what is the line between “simply” hate speech and actual radicalization to terroristic acts and/or conspiracy to terroristic acts and/or incitement to terroristic acts? At what point does it stop being “someone should [violent act] the [slur]s” and become “I bought a gun and several mags and have been practicing for the [dogwhistle mass violence event], let’s [violent act] the [slur]s”? At what point does it stop being 4chan trolling and become all but admitting intention to commit the Christchurch shooting? A Stormfront discussion forum becoming outright planning for and incitement to a Jan 6th riot?

I have Linux Mint installed with the Windows theme and Windows style cursor. It looks almost identical to Windows.

Even Linux Mint?

How about incitements to violence and outright explicit disinformation/misinformation, like:

• [group] should be [violent act]
• [group] are [dehumanizing pejorative] that deserve [violent act]
• [dogwhistle for the actual Nazis, like the 14 words, terminology specifically referencing the Final Solution, etc]
• [hard r] are [extreme dehumanizing pejorative] and don’t deserve [human rights]
• [violent or repulsive act] the [slur]
• “Despite only making up 13%…”
• “Whites create and forget, [slur]s copy and remember…”

How about incitements to violence and outright explicit disinformation/misinformation, like:

• [group] should be [violent act]
• [group] are [dehumanizing pejorative] that deserve [violent act]
• [dogwhistle for the actual Nazis, like the 14 words, terminology specifically referencing the Final Solution, etc]
• [hard r] are [extreme dehumanizing pejorative] and don’t deserve [human rights]
• [violent or repulsive act] the [slur]
• “Despite only making up 13%…”
• “Whites create and forget, [slur]s copy and remember…”

Thing is, human nature has been shaped to make alternatives feel impossible to achieve and any effort in that direction pointless to engage in. This was and is an ongoing project of generations of trauma, imposed norms and rules, hierarchies and conditioning; even if they are later educated to understand the predicament they are in, the conditioning is strong enough to dissuade all but the rare few not to do anything. Remember, feudalism lasted for over a thousand years.

Looks like you needed to actually @ the bot, but here’s your late reminder. Unfortunately Loops got postponed about a week due to Meta being a-holes and naming a different thing Loops, but they should hopefully be up next Sunday.

It stands for “embrace, extend, extinguish”, a strategy used by Microsoft in the past to take over formerly open source projects.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

Many people speculated that the creation of Threads and one-way federation was a similar tactic, and now with the Loops thing.

Have you tried Linux Mint Cinnamon? It’s about as beginner-friendly as it gets, has help forums, a dedicated chat built-in for getting help, a welcome screen that walks you through how to do updates/backups/firewall/etc, and works out of the box. I’m an ex-Windows user and I’ve been using Mint for almost a year now with practically no issue.

Very possible. It’s not like Loops was a secret, and it would be a direct competitor to Instagram Reels. Plus, E/E/E and all that.

Postponed 11 days unfortunately due to Meta shenanigans

Loops got postponed unfortunately

Thanks!

Unfortunately they postponed it 11 days because Meta, of course, also announced an unrelated program named “Loops”, and now the FOSS project manager doesn’t want to release something that would seem like an afterthought in comparison. 11 days is apparently enough time to do last-minute ultra-polishing to get it ready to tell Threads to go f itself. We’ll see what happens.

@remindme@mstdn.social 4 days

Just ping @remindme@mstdn.social

I’m also in California at the moment and it was toggled on. Is it based on current location or the location when you made the account?