misaloun

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[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Signal actually has a rule on not using third party clients on its servers. These clients existing do not prove the point you intend.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Doesn't take away the fact that not being on F-droid is a huge issue and says a lot about how much they care about privacy and security.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago

Is it time stamp of last usage, or time stamp of all messages?

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

I suppose lack of RTL support would be show stopping, so I'd have to wait for that first. Thanks for the hard work!

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I was familiar with that one and spoke with the creator. Unfortunately they had trouble with adoption because r/Arabs refused to let them advertise. They also were not federated.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

No, not at all.

What I think is lacking is an Arabic-speaking space and Arab-related discussions.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

It's not. I think you misread what I said, and I already explained to you that it isn't. It's to have an Internet space for Arabs. My mention of the Palestinian cause is using it to motivate people to move over to Lemmy, in light of the censorship against Arabs.

This is not meant to be an anti Israel lemmy. It is an Arab lemmy.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think it is harmful to give people the option to spaces primarily speaking about local matters and concerns, and primarily occupied by local people. It does not take away the other spaces.

We are already in an age where it is almost impossible to undo globalization, and nothing I do will prevent those who frequent mixed and international spaces (or more accurately Western dominated spaces) from doing this. It is only giving them a place that didn't exist before for content they couldn't post or read elsewhere.

Most of the world already has this. I don't think Arabs having it will be harmful.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

I think you misunderstand my intentions. An Arabic lemmy instance is not aimed at isolation. People will be able to ineract with us without issue, and we will interact with them (federation will be open). The only purpose is to have a space where we are free of corporate censorship, and a space where you (whether an Arab or not) will find many other arabs, rather than most of the internet that is English-speaking, and most of the remainder speaking a west european language.

If anything, this would de-isolate Arabs. The primary Arabic speaking spaces on the internet are networks of friends on Facebook, isolated from the rest of the world. At least this way you can find us, and see that we are normal human beings (as unfortunately some racists in the western world are surprised to find that out) and you can talk with us.

The small existing Arab spaces that are accessible to the outside world is cringy, unserious, terminally online memers that ruin our image and do not represent us. Probably many of them are 4chan-ers

 

Every major social media is censoring anti-israel or pro-Palestine content. This may be a good opportunity to convince Arabs to move over to lemmy, where only we control the content moderation.

For the record, the lemmy won't be Palestine only. I just think it'll be the reason people will move over.

The reason I ask for others to help me is:

  • help advertise to other Arabs to bring them over
  • someone to register the stuff in their name. Unfortunately, I am an immigrant in a country and have been interrogated by them before (on bogus grounds). While what I'm doing is not illegal, they have their eyes on me and I am paranoid they'll give me trouble again regardless. I can take care of the technology side of the hosting and the initial costs (hopefully donations cover the rest). Since it will be on your name, moderation and the like will be your decision, but I will just want to make sure initially that we are on a similar page.
[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

Which is exactly what this UN resolution is about.

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

It's a post about Reddit attitudes in c/Reddit. What other kind of content would you expect here?

[–] misaloun@reddthat.com 0 points 1 year ago

It's acquire bad reason imo. If anything, the resolution is very forgiving. It could literally pass and nothing absolutely change, yet they still chose to vote against it.

 

Bro have you considered that starving to death is actually okay?

 
 

Hello friends, I am considering self hosting on my desktop computer, which already has gentoo Linux installed. But my concern is that my regular desktop use could compromise the security of self hosted applications, which tend to handle private user data.

What can I do to secure myself against this threat?

For example, browsers on their own are a security nightmare. You are running arbitrary remote scripts, and there's no telling the extent of damage they do (most websites out there doing extensive tracking).

What can I do to secure my self hosted applications while running them on the same machine? Is there something I can do to somehow isolate browsers and other sketchy applications from the damage they could possibly do?

 

There's already gentoo communities, but a lot of them seem abandoned or dead. I found one on a smaller instance that seems to have a bit of recent activity, so thought to advertise it here.

P.S. I do not manage this community or instance

gentoo@reddthat.com

reddthat.com/c/gentoo

!gentoo@reddthat.com

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