I feel like even for those of us going over there… It’s such a scattered ecosystem…

I’m trying, but it’s a struggle to follow conversations over there.

“to” or “too” ?

I feel like this is especially important in that statement…

Yea, but what they want to avoid is someone else taking over and becoming an evil dictator. Also costs.

Just lemm.ee. I dislike having many accounts.

Use a laptop? At least then it’s more comfortable.

I’m using nostr but… Yea. I’d rather just stay here. Infact, I even decided to join lemm.ee. Seems nice enough over there.

Hexbear: “A leftist social platform centered around community building through discussion, shitposting memes, and sharing content.”

Read through their rules, they seem reasonable enough. Though, they have no qlams about wielding a ban hammer.

Note: I’m used to leftists being very unreasonable, so maybe I’m giving them too much credit.

I like lemm.ee. They are in favor of users blocking as needed rather than power tripping and defederating.

hexbear.net seems like a nice place from what I’ve seen. Far far left, but in a lulzy way. Haven’t looked into their policies.

They are constantly flipping out on their own.

I joined up with lemm.ee and accidently wander into their shit. It’s a not stop shit-show.

Though, when the hexbear folks drop in, it goes to another level.

Serously though, the hexbear folks I’ve seen so far, being extreme leftists, they sure are lulzies. Droping reason and atacking anyone who shows the slightest weakness.

Good to see there’s some leftards I can respect. Otoh, my sample has been pretty small so far.

Yea, but how do I know you control that anymore either? Back to trusting central authorities, but that’s certainly a way around the problem. Not a perfect way, but I can be reasonablly sure that Linus owns Linus Tech Tips, and if he says from there that his key leaked, it’s probably true. But then again, his site has been hacked before. Heck, even then he has to convince everyone to follow his new key. That’s no small task.

Keeping your shit secure is hard. I’m mostly using Android for this stuff at the moment and I have no trust that anything I do here is secure. Copying it to the clipboard, as these apps do, may be enough to have the key compromised.

And, maybe, I’d like to keep a copy of my key on my person via flash drive. Flash drives get lost sometimes. People get mugged. Even if my key is encrypted on the drive, I have to treat it as if it’s compromised.

Or perhaps I have a print out in my files. Files get stolen sometimes. And for big time content creators, all threats increase as the keys are more valuable than some rando’s.

So we have many software threat vectors and some physical ones. Mehbe my app gets compromised, they push an update, everyone’s keys start getting yanked. It happens. We need disaster recovery options. Until we do, everyone’s reputation on the system is at risk.