Fonzie!

Buying from, and supporting the artist directly, IMO.

Many European metal bands host their own webshop selling their merchandise, records, cassettes and CDs; many small and independent musicians sell their songs on Bandcamp (US based website that does take a cut from each payment, 15% I believe goes to Bandcamp, so that is something to keep in mind)

I snorted when this was the only comment. They know what they’re doing with that name.

Going by their phone number they’re Italian, although I can’t find the address they’re registered to, on their webpage.

What metadata does XMPP leak? AFAIK only when a message was sent, roughly (in large increments) how large the message was, the server of the sender knows from who to which server, the server of the recipient knows from which server to who.
I find it strange that Signal somehow doesn’t know when a message was sent, and from who to who; how would they ever make this possible?

Also, you say you have yet to find any other free service that collects as little data… How about most e-mail providers? Not Google and Microsoft of course, but most e-mail providers only need a name which can be made up as well. You hm also host your own email server, then you are in control. All of this is true for XMPP and Matrix, as well.

Agreed, I’ve noticed the same thing with even hardcover orders from them.

T- The coding bugs?

After checking a few more times I see the blue text “Bilbo” under the blue line, just right from the red one.

I need to sleep, but thank you internet stranger.

Wait, I’m dumb, what’s the blue line?

I think it’s more stock prices / shareholders drive enshittification

If this is real, then that’s some North Korea shit right there.

Wait hold up, in Dutch we have glimwormen (“shimmer worms” ) but those don’t fly! They’re actual bioluminecent worms.

Aren’t German Glühwürmchen the same thing?

This XKCD?

I thought money to Lemmy (not your instance but the founders) went to a US organisation?

It’s still federated so I guess it doesn’t really matter much, but still…

hot sauce Netherlands

I’m having a hard time believing they’ll be hot, speaking from experience with my fellow Dutch.

Somehow taxis in Arnhem cost €40 for a 15 minute drive, I’ll use a deelfiets (it’s better for the environment, too)

Someone is writing in English how the French are talking about the Scandinavians?

It can’t get much more European than this!

FYI Firefox (Mobile) and derivatives (LibreWolf, Femnec) have offline, on-device, FOSS machine translation available:

It supports many European languages, sadly not many non-European ones but it still fits the use-case for many people on this sub!

It’s the 21st century, don’t let language be a barrier!

Unironically, Lidl’s “own brand” Freeway cola is p alright, I’ve never felt much for buying, and paying extra, for name brands.

Oh that is a great explanation, thanks a bunch!

XMPP is more comparable to Signal, yes.

Signal does need (yes, need) a phone number, and most people only have one so that is identifiable info.

This puts it at mostly the same level as some competitors, including WhatsApp which is often advised against.

This? https://https/://simplex.chat/

FWIW Matrix and XMPP are also decentralised, much like e-mail is, which is why I recommended it. I’m immediately skeptic about SimpleX’s premise of having no user IDs; they’ll likely need some unique field for each user, this might as well be a UUID or something like that… So what’s the benefit?