You could, in the meantime, simply not upgrade to the version that uses AI.

Since, from what I’m seeing around, people are having issues looking for an alternative.

, but installing lemmy means supporting an authoritarian

Have you ever transported yourself in a Ford, or derived, vehicle?

Piefed is known to incorporate CCP-style shadow profile and similar measures, such as “Social Credit”, so it’d be hilarious to complain about l.ml’s alignment to then migrate to piefed of all places.

Oh, time to issue one of those Easily Ignorable Arrest Orders, right?

This statement is so banger for 2026 that I’m asking for permission to quote it.

Terms of Use / Terms of Service are different from Licenses. That said, even if it was compatible that would be a good thing, as the impression I’ve got is that the “hard-liner” Free Software licenses are becoming a thing of the past now that what is needed is “Ethical Source” licenses, that eg.: restrict usage in AI.

I mean, from that perspective, sure. But if the main concern is lack of storage, SSDs currently are of no help with that compared to HDDs (let alone with production being shifted over to serve AIs and datacenters).

Perhaps a dual SSD solution, but still would have to be planned with the potential outcome of either upgrading one of the SSDs or add a third one.

Any decent native client (Pidgin, Conversations, Gajim, etc) will cover most of the important stuff, so it might be worth checking who among those might be willing (+ people contributing) to track development after Movim.

Yup! And, if you are careful and lucky when picking your instance, you won’t need to migrate in the short or medium time either.

But also, like in the forums of old, nothing precludes you from keeping more accounts if it’s useful (eg.: for keepig different topics or subs). I’m just too lazy to.

And not just in Brazil! I think Perú and Chile are also big on MercadoLibre.

Hmmm this would have sounded interesting if it didn’t require releasing new phones. I don’t think Motorola is going to release their next phone within a $200-$300 price range. As it stands, this is marginally better than yet another “ponzi your VS funding on the privacy community” scheme.

What would be useful, if they now have a partnership going, would be to convince Motorola to release the relock keys / firmware fixes for the bootloaders of some models that are no longer in production but are affordable and useful in the secondhand market. In particular, models that see good support from eg.: Lineage. Much easier to start a road towards better privacy and freer systems if it’s feasible on hardware you already have, after all.

I’m using sdf half because they are part of a service I already paid for and half because I’m too lazy to make myself more accounts somewhere else.

20 GOTO 10

(I used to have one of those until 2015, when it broke down. Never ever found a replacement. By that point it was yellow, not white-gray lol)

XMPP, hands down.

Not only for me, but for other people. XMPP is leaner, more robust, easier to administer and overall not a nu-protocol, so it’s easier on the staff of the instance operating as well, leaving them more of their allotted time to tend to the community. And with client utilities like Gakim, Conversations and Movim, focusing on the service proper is even easier.

I’m guessing a dual disk setup (SSD for the OS, HDD with lots of room for service data) wasn’t an option then? If there’s any nook for such a deal I’d get my cat ready to snatch. It’s sad to hear that this situation hits their instance in the current internet contingency of all things.

No digital service will allow you to pay only once

Ahem.

I’m a SDF user, so I am living proof that there exist digital services that will allow you to pay only once. Heck, they gave me a whole shell session and web space as well as other few goodies (that I’m far too lazy to use I’m afraid). And all I had to do was to fax them some money once and never ever have to think about it again.

If digital services won’t give you an option to pay once and instead force you into the rent seeking grift, it’s a skill issue on their end.

Core memory unlocked

Making big companies pony up is always good.

Could you build an interface on top of it to look exactly like discord with all of it’s functions?

In theory yes, and Movim is movim’ in that direction (yeah I invented that pun, blame me). That’s part of the trick with XMPP, it’s quite extensible.

He’s already talking to that machine of his that censors his drunken ramblings with cute little asterisks. I wonder what does that do to someone’s psyque tho.