Facebook was blocking Distrowatch
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The paranoia in me wants to think that this an effort to make people forget that there are, in fact, a whole lot of people capable and willing to audit any kind of open source project at any scale. Like a new AI or similar...
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First time I heard of Ferdium. How's your experience using it? How is it compared to, say, Beeper?
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Always has been.
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As someone who originally fell for that trick, bless them. I've since learned how to do it right and became a dirty distrohopper.
Either that or some Linux wizard cast the "every time you get your distro perfectly set up and stable you get bored and install another one" curse on me.
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I take the approach of settling into a distro then getting bored and messing with stuff I shouldn't (at least on a daily driver) and reinstalling out of necessity, sometimes changing distros as well.
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I used ferdium and it used up alot of ram, beeper started breaking for me when doing simple things like refreshing chats.
If only there was a non electron based whatsapp or all in one messaging client which is RAM efficient and snappy
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Smashing something with a club and and sifting through the pieces to find out why it broke is the best way to learn. Its literally primal human instinct.
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Sounds like a cool app but idk about it's missing features.
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Like pidgin?
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I've never used beeper, but I've been using Ferdium for years I have all in one app:
- Hangouts
- Discord
- Element (Matrix)
- Nextcloud Chat
- Lemmy
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Cue people spouting:
"But muh marketplace!"
"But muh friend from highschool I haven't spoken to in a decade!"
"But muh extended family I barely even know exist!"Any excuse to keep hitting that crack pipe.
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Wait pidgin still works?
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Many people get their news and information from these platforms. This let's them truly control what people see and think. They can block information about atrocities and feed people misinformation. They're just doing it more now that they definitely won't face any repercussions.
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Yeah, I use it daily. There is discord and teams plugins for it.
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How to install whatsapp and telegram plugins?
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https://www.pidgin.im/plugins/?publisher=all&query=&type= There is a list of them here.
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The only distro I haven't had that happen on was gentoo because the thought of reinstalling it makes me go "actually this is fine"
