Lucia [she/her]

I think the problem in this case isn’t freedom of speech, but the ability to scream so loud that other voices can’t reach the audience. Corpos and governments use their already established influence to control narrative.

Can you please provide a link to a post with a blocked image?

Did you reload the page?

You probably need to enable “I’m an advanced user” in the settings.

There’s a box to the right of domain names (the box with + and -), you can click on a left side of it to allow and on a right side to forbid it.

Its human nature to be very us vs them.

It doesn’t mean it’s good and that we shall just embrace it and kill each other for minor differences.

What I’m saying is your “us and them” is the most Neurotypical thing to do.

It seems you misunderstood me - I don’t mean “autistic people are more into this mentality”, but rather “surprisingly, despite suffering from exclusions out of neurotypical society, many autistic people support this kind of thing when the roles reverted”. Hope it makes sense!

Why is “Us and them” thinking so strong among autistic people?

Basically, you don’t want everything be dependant on a central authority - this is a single point of failure. If there’s a big security vulnerability in your web browser, but you use a standalone mail client, your mails are most probably safe.

This also adds up to built-in adblocker - who knows if Vivaldi devs will ever go evil and sneak in exceptions in their adblocker? Or if they will sell their web browser, just like their CEO done so with his previous browser, Opera.

You can add UBo filters to block instances

Also OP post is about privacy not bloat

OP is concerned about Pocket integration too, so I assumed they may not like it.

these features will only improve your privacy over using some webmail.

Does their built-in mail support any good encryption? The last time I used Vivaldi a mail feature wasn’t really that private. Also, using dedicated email client like claws or mutt is even better from privacy perspective.

All google stuff is either removed or toggleable from settings.

They can’t remove Manifest V3 though.

What’s wrong with that? It’s a good deal larger than mozilla’s

Yes, and it’s under Google’s control. And, again when I used it last time, you need to enable some google stuff to install extensions from the store.

I am thinking of moving to Epiphany (gnome-web) some day, but I may start missing the vim-like interaction with qutebrowser.

There’s a WebKitGTK-based web browser called Luakit. Pretty good from my experience, although webkit can be problematic at times.

Yep, also they don’t integrate Pocket in the browser, they just have a built-in email client, note-taking software, RSS reader, calendar bloat. Also, Vivaldi is based on chromium (as such subsribed to all Google’s bullshit), and uses Chrome extension store.

Honestly, OP, just stick to Librewolf, it’s privacy-respecting and actually open-source, pocket’s disabled, UBo’s preinstalled.

Fluxbox or IceWM as a more standard, familiar floating WMs (both are pretty customizable too).

WindowMaker is my goto for standalone window managers, it’s look based on NeXTSTeP OS from 90s, so it doesn’t look like yet another ripoff from windows or macos (both are ugly IMHO), so it’s pretty unique.

If you want minimal and keyboard-oriented, cwm is THE wm for you. The main problem is that default keyboard shortcuts are really bad (openbsd fanatics will say otherways, but when shortcuts are spread around ctrl+, alt+, and ctrl+alt+, it’s really far from good), so I recommend tweak them or to find someone’s config.

If you want a desktop-agnostic file manager for these wms, I’d recommend xfe - it’s somewhat obscure for some reason, but it’s really, really good. Can’t recommend more.

As to install, all of these should be in your distro’s repo. Fluxbox may come as two packages (fluxbox2 and fluxbox3), the first one is the last official version and the second is the “community edition” - a fork, basically.

At least on Void Window Maker package is called WindowMaker, with capitalisation. Since Void sticks to official naming, other distros may have the same name.

edit: Also, it’s worth to mention most of recommendation on this thread are tiling window managers (awesomewm, i3, hyprland, etc.)

Do you want a tiling or a stacking wm?

I’m not really into security-focused distros, but heard good things about QubesOS. Also, what about OpenBSD?

if there will be some exceptions.

lemmy.world and mastodon.social decided not to defederate threads.

It may speed up your boot time, at least it happened to me on Void (maybe the reason is how minimal this distro is though). I personally prefer runit over systemd in how it handles services, but honestly you most probably won’t notice a much difference - definetely not worth reinstalling whole system.

Ubuntu fonts works pretty good for me as a general UI font tbh. In text editors I prefer mononoki over monospace, it’s a bit prettier IMO, although in terminal I use terminus because pixel fonts are cool.

I’m not sure how this hypothetical issue that may happen in a far future relates to what issue I addressed in my comment, actually.

By ‘sane blocklists’ I meant small and auditable blocklists actually. There are instances like programming.dev, lemmy on sdf and the instance I’m on that don’t preemptively defederate from other instances. That’s what I meant.