12 apps for remote work that take privacy seriously
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@Catweazle I have accounts with both those, but barely use them... their UIs are chaotic & limiting. Of the two i have explored Diaspora more deeply, & it is quite primitive [my friends & i wanted usability features & functions akin to what Discourse-based fora provide, & in this D is a miserable shadow]. Possibly M* might afford more of the functions, but its UI is so horribly off-putting.
* To clarify, mine is actually Octodon, rather than vanilla Mastodon.
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@Steffie , certainly the UI of the two does not stand out precisely, well, it is an alternative for those who want a means of communication without flourishes, but without Big Brother.
I've been in both of them for a while, but I've been bored with this kind of social media with sequential communication, I prefer the format of a forum, I'm that weird.
In this there are also alternatives, such as Covenant Forum, ZeroNet, Vanilla Forum or MyBB, if you have a server. -
@Catweazle said in 12 apps for remote work that take privacy seriously:
I've been bored with this kind of social media with sequential communication
Agree. These things are universally ghastly IMO.
@Catweazle said in 12 apps for remote work that take privacy seriously:
prefer the format of a forum
Agree. Especially Discourse-based fora [sorry Vivaldi, but this forum s/w is horrible in comparison to Discourse]. Additionally in Discourse, once you gain sufficient privileges, you can create Group Private Messages, which are tremendous fun, with full threading & emojis + formatting, AND reaction-emojis [a brilliant initiative; i really miss it in V].
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@Steffie , emojis are not a problem for me, apart from the ones that this forum has, I have the Windows ones (Ctrl+.) and those of another forum, which I have in the web panel
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@Catweazle No you've partly missed my point.
reaction-emojis
...are NOT available to you external to the forum software. Lookee here:
Here's a post [well, the final three words] of mine, to which my friend later attached two reaction-emojis [as indicated]. The fab thing about this tool is that we can react to posts via one or multiple emojis without even needing necessarily to actually create a written reply-post. Your windoze & other forum emojis cannot help you here, unless the forum itself has this tool natively, as is true of Discourse fora with this plug-in enabled by the Admins.
Here's the temporary reaction-emoji pop-up from which we choose our response:
Obviously you'll recognise the individual emojis themselves; they're not what's special. The special part is simply being able to respond pictorially, quite separate to needing a formal post.
The emojis that you mentioned are only useful to you once you have begun drafting an actual post... not at all what i'm talking about here.
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@Steffie , ah, Ok, so I got you wrong. I was referring to the emojis available for the written response, of these there are quite a few, also in this forum in two menus in the edit bar.
In another forum we also have some emojis to put them as a rating apart from just the 'Like', but only 4 basic ones. It would be nice to have it here, true, but I don't see it as important either.
But to return to the topic, it should be added that in certain social networks the Like button is directly a spy that provides data about the user that is added to other metadata and it is therefore not recommended to use it on these sites.
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@Ayespy Thanks for the link. News to me.
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