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Emergency medicine. I’ve heard various medical fields/disciplines described that way

I have pretty good experience with Tutanota an bitwarden as the most direct alternatives

Tutanota apps lack a bit of polish but the UI looks reasonably nice and gets the job done. Bitwarden has treated me pretty well.

That… seems like such an obvious solution lol, I just spend so much time on my phone I forget extensions are a thing unless I’m actively tinkering with my browser

Thank you so much for sharing! I’ll go take a look at firefox extensions when I next look for RSS feeds ☺️

After spending lots of time trying to find feeds, learning this was super helpful

Take care, I hope you find places that better fit what you’re looking for :)

I think it’s pretty fair to describe ‘wishing for the death of things other people are enjoying’ as spreading bitterness 😅

I’m sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience in your time here. I hope you find somewhere you feel more at home, best of luck to you too

In my experience it’s been less hive-mindy than reddit was, but to be completely honest I think you kinda get out what you put in

If you approach things combatively, you’ll get combativeness. If you approach things with curiosity, I find you get openness and a willingness to engage with folks sincerly.

Not sure why you’d wish the death of a platform people are enjoying and that serves as a small escape from the broader corporate web, just because you personally didn’t like it.

I rather like it here, I’d be really sad to see this space cease to exist. It sounds like you’d be better served by going somewhere you like more instead of staying here and just spouting bitterness :(

I know everyone downvoted you a ton but I’d be kinda curious to hear why you have such a strong preference for avoiding gecko, and what mozilla policies you take issues with

I kinda wonder if there’s a similar extension or functionality available for Chromium based browsers…

You might benefit from firefoxes Facebook containers extension that prevents cross site Facebook tracking :)

Man, I completely forgot about that. That’s honestly wild to think about in retrospect…

Meant to reply to this but it got burried in my inbox-

Im glad you got value out of it, it’s a subject I care a lot about as someone who’s fairly mentally ill and tries to hold myself to a high standard in how I engage with people.

Hope you have a good one :)

Thats pretty sick!

Thank you :)

As cool as federation is, I think in the case of a single source of information seeking to be as reputable and neutral as possible, it kinda just seems like federation and allowing bunches of different versions of the same articles would undermine the project’s ability to organize effectively and present itself in a useful way to the public…

I do like the idea of multiple separate community wikis existing with their own different culture, but I expect it’d be difficult for multiple to really exist at scale simultaneously, just cause there isn’t that big a pool of people dedicated to editing community articles and splitting them seems like a challenge. But the Wikipedia article on bias on Wikipedia suggests that articles with more contributors of differing viewpoints reduce the bias, so like there’s also an argument to be made for more conservative folks just contributing to Wikipedia

And unfortunately in the case of infogalactic specifically, I think explicitly stating that you aim your resource to align with certain ideology, or avoid a specific bias on one of the spectrum means I’ll never really see it as a reputable source. They went in the the intention of creating something with a bias or ideological slant; I respect Wikipedia because of how hard they work to minimize bias, even though it’s ultimately impossible to remove

Theodore Robert Beale (born August 21, 1968), commonly known as Vox Day, is an American activist and writer. He has been described as a far-right white supremacist,[2][3] a misogynist,[4] and part of the alt-right.[5][6][7] The Wall Street Journal described him as “the most despised man in science fiction”.[8]

Infogalactic:
In 2017, Beale launched Infogalactic, an English-language wiki encyclopedia.[30] The site was a fork of the contents of English Wikipedia which could be gradually edited to remove the influence of what Beale described as “the left-wing thought police who administer [Wikipedia]”.[6][31] It has been described by Wired and The Washington Post as a version of Wikipedia targeted to alt-right readers.[6][32]

Uhhhh, not sure this is the kind of resource I’m looking for 😅 though it might sometimes be helpful to cross reference to compare things. But my impression from online discussion is that infogalactic is generally much less updated than Wikipedia, which makes sense, it feels kinda hard for another similar platform to compete, especially given the volunteer nature of things and infogalactics more specific political bent that will limit its appeal

Thouh this isn’t the fist time I’ve come across suggesions that Wikipedia has bias issues; perhaps that’d be a good thing for me to look into at some point as well, and see if it feels like there’s substance behind that claim

Edit: entirely expectdly there’s a Wikipedia page about it that actually seems pretty helpful. I’ve not read much yet and I’ll need to take a look at other sources, but I figured I’d share for others :) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ideological_bias_on_Wikipedia?wprov=sfla1

I didn’t actually know that. I’m happy to donate anyway when I’m able to, but thank you for making me a little more informed!

I found this article on the subject that did a really good job of exploring the nuances of Wikipedia’s funding, community critisims, and whether it’s much different from other non-profits. Highly reccomend for anyone else interested in the subject
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-intersect/wp/2015/12/02/wikipedia-has-a-ton-of-money-so-why-is-it-begging-you-to-donate-yours/

What I learned is that Wikipedia is not financially in dire straights, as sometimes might be inferred from their donation requests, that their funding approach is very similar to other comparable non-profits, but that because of their nature people have very different expectations of them, which one might reasonably see as either reasonable or unreasonable depending on perspective. I think I fall somewhere in the middle

Man, Wikipedia is fucking cool.

Thank you for linking! (And if anyone else finds this list super useful, maybe think about donating; Wikipedia is massive and run exclusively off donations :)

Thank you, that’s helpful to know!

Yep, there’s one called syncthing-fork that’s been around quite a while I think, lemme go grab a link

Edit: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.catfriend1.syncthingandroid/ :)

I haven’t followed whether the project has made any comment on the upstream being discontinued, because right now I’m not using it. But if you reading this depend on syncthing, it might be worthwhile to go check, and maybe donate to help them keep it going :)

I don’t presently have one, and when I do it’ll probably be like waiter at waffle-house or something 😅

Why do you ask?