Ouch, that’s definitely way out of date and has several critical bugs in it that are unpatched.

I brought the spam issue from that instance to the attention of the admins for LW, they’re going to take a look into it. Will keep an eye out for more spamming today.

I’m not actually sure how that works. If LW defederates does it block all users from that instance from posting? I would guess “yes” in that I believe the instance the community is hosted on plays a role in tracking posts to that community. If you’re curious, I would definitely ask one of the dev communities.

Will leave up for a little since I’m sure a lot of other people saw the barrage of spam from last night. Should be all cleaned up now.

Also, I do believe that is a legit instance, so it’s not likely it’ll be defederated, they’re likely a victim of the spammers as much as we are here… they just need to delete those accounts and block those IPs.

Really like this one! Plus it’s a fantastic legend in and of itself. 100% agree that the icon options for it would awesome and you could have several Atlantis / ocean feeling themes to go with it.

There also doesn’t appear to be an app in the App Store with the “Atlantis” as a single word.

Both rumble and vimeo will work as alternatives. Rumble has been easier to use for me, but I’d check them both out for sure.

Couldn’t agree more with this. I just use a Roku set top box with all my TVs and never even connect the TVs to the internet.

Almost every part of the article was as entertaining as it was interesting, haha! Not only did they spend months tickling rats, but they actually turned up some new information on how the brain works in the process.

Same, would have definitely checked them out. Sounds like they did a really bad job at getting the word out there that they even existed.

I’ve been using duckduckgo instead of Google for a few years now and love it. I’ve gotten used to the shortcuts in it now and probably couldn’t go back if I wanted to haha

Wow, just a terrifying level of surveillance! I was imagining that it was an AI powered red light camera system,some way to watch for speeders / lane weavers, or for people blowing past school busses with their stop signs out. This is just constantly watching you day-to-day to see if you’re commuting “suspiciously” and then somehow calling that probable cause. That’s absolutely over the top, glad it’s not near me… yet.

I use Apple Maps. In theory, it’s not tracking me. I guess I have no way to prove that, but at least they’re on the record saying they anonymize the data from it and don’t correlate routes to people.

Edit: here is some more info, took a second to find the link.

Proton Mail is a good alternative. A good thing to watch for a either a lack of or a very limited free account. This means they’re not making money off harvesting your data. If it’s free, you’re the product.