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Is the community this one? [email protected]

2fa, qr codes, talking with family, and emergency services

I might add maps to that list. Paper maps work for larger distances, but tend to be out of date for anything local

A solid list, thank you!

This one sounds the closest to my experience. Maybe I'll make a list now so I don't forget the important items

This is all well thought out, I'm sure your local community appreciates you :)

The power outage I remember from over a decade ago was in the nintendo DS era, and I was at a friend's place at the time

It's not like the device could be used for much else during a power outage so might as well play on it.

This is a cool one I'll have to try sometime!

Trying to think of the last time I had a long outage here, it might have been 5-10 years ago.

Apparently a bunch of trees fell over power lines / infrastructure last night, and so there were outages all over the place

I know at least one friend that wants to adopt/foster once they're ready, instead of having biological children.

The justification was similar to what you said, where they want to pass on their values / legacy, but don't care about the genetic side

Dark mode problems

install an app and make an account

Mastodon is pretty much the same now

There is an option to pick another server, but non-technical users are probably going to glance over it entirely

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2022/04/official-apps-now-available-for-ios-and-android/

I wouldn't call it fake, but the concern is about who created, maintains, and/or controls the protocol

ActivityPub was developed by W3C, and it's properly decentralized. For Atproto, the concern is that Bluesky will exert control over the protocol once shareholders and profit get in the way of making a good product.

Last I heard they were discussing potentially moving the necessary registry/directory to a separate non-profit "like ICANN", but even with that they seemed noncommittal about it.

I'd love to see more diversity in the federated space. Competition and iterative development is how we make things better. But I need Bluesky to take those necessary steps before I feel comfortable endorsing it over ActivityPub

The analogy the other day works well, aside from the LaTeX one which still feels like a stretch

• Firefox : Chrome
• Linux : Windows
• LaTex : MS Word
• actual Fediverse : Bluesky's Fediverseᵀᴹ

However I'm happy to be here. Mastodon is getting a boost right now too. Even if they didn't, and everyone on Twitter moved to bluesky, I don't expect those instances to close up shop