Ah, yeah. That’s why I’m wondering if I’m missing something… Like, cool. I know B sold my address… now what? I guess it’s a neat metric to know?

I’m assuming you mean United States when you say North America because WhatsApp is definitely heavily used in Mexico. (Not sure about Canada.)

In the US, most people use plain SMS, or if you break down after constant harassment from your friends and family, iMessage. I’ve definitely had people “joking” say, “Ew, you’re a green bubble!” to me more than once.

Aaaand it’s down.

One thing I would like to see is a way to distinguish which apps do Real™ Open Source vs fakie open source. For example, I see Joplin on there saying “Your secure, open-source note-taking companion”. I guess that’s technically true at this point in time, but they also force contributors to sign a CLA so they have the option to pull the rug later on. (Something which does happen.)

They even say so explicitly:

This is necessary so that if we ever want to change the license again we are able to do so

— https://joplinapp.org/news/20221221-agpl/#what-does-it-change-for-developers

And fine, if they want to do that it’s up to them. I’d just like a quick way to tell the difference between open source 😒 and Open Source 😄.

Hosted apps means you can use them on multiple devices. Otherwise, I have to wait until I get home, power up my laptop, wait for the OS to boot, wait for the app to load, then do the thing I wanted to do.

Any thoughts on how to solve the data sync problem without hosting? I guess I remember some apps doing a local network sync to get data to multiple devices. I kinda remember having problems with that not working all the time…

Yeah! I’ve had surprisingly good luck on soulseek! Didn’t even know what I was missing!

TIL about the Bitwarden integration! Thanks!

How do you use email aliases or what do you find them useful for? I’ve played around with generating unique aliases for different websites I use, but I’m not sure I did anything useful with that setup. Normally, if I get spam I usually just hit the unsubscribe link and that’s been sufficient. Currently, I just have 2 emails: one I use for businesses and such and one for random websites that I don’t care too much about. Is having more aliases better?

I’m currently using Migadu. It’s $20/year for their cheapest plan. They give you a lot of control over the email service, so it might not be the best if you’re a noob. In fact, they require you bring a domain name. But, they let you create unlimited users, aliases, have fancy routing, etc.

https://purelymail.com/ looks interesting too. And is cheaper at $10/year.

If you do decide to get a custom domain, just some tips:

• get something that ends in .net or even better .com because shitty companies with shitty IT departments will block other TLDs (I’ve had this happen with FedEx and my local garbage company). There is no spam folder for them, the email just explodes.
• probably don’t pick a domain with one of your names it in for better anonymity, unless I guess you have a popular last name? john@smith.com looks cool, but consider if you want random sites like lemmy to have that data.
• don’t pick a homophone or weird word because at some point you’ll have to speak your email to another human and it’s really awkward to tell your bank that your email is john@piggy.park or john@maill.com or was it john@male.com?

Also, the web interfaces of some of these other email services might not be as good as Gmail’s UI. It helps to use an email client instead. Thunderbird is fine or you could use something simpler like claws-mail or even something like mutt.