How do you even exist without a phone number. How do you get cellular data? Does the government not require you to have one? Your employer? What about all the services that require one?

Yes it does

That’s not anything to do with Jellyfin, that’s something to do with your hardware.

Signal requires a phone number on setup.

It is dumb and annoying and inconvenient but doesn’t affect its use or privacy.

I do agree that SimpleX seems like the best chat option.

Uhhhh yeah, no literally none of that is true

If I go to the TILvids channels, the last 6 months of videos are missing.

The biggest issue with Matrix is that the server collects ALL the metadata. If that’s your server, that’s fine. If thats the default matrix.org server that almost everyone uses, you might as well be using WhatsApp. Same thing goes if any of those people are conversing with people on your server, as they will store all redundant metadata on their server as well.

Signal is easier to use, more private, and faster.

I like it a lot. If you’re looking to get started there is a groups directory bot. The biggest problem is notifications are very slow. Sometimes hours behind.

Ah yeah. It’s kinda complicated and hard to sum up in a short comment. You can message me on SimpleX if you need help. I’m not a genius but I do run about a dozen of my own services.

No, you definitely don’t need a WiFi card.

Privacy is not the same as security

I sincerely doubt they’re bad at it.

Try the app, it’s a little better

It’s both horrible discovery and a limited number of creators.

100%. I created my own instance and set it to auto-follow other instances. There’s like 975 or something and still not really much interesting. Can confirm TILVids also denied my federation request.

I’m doing my part by uploading my own videos 🙂

If I set it the discovery to “trending” the top video is 2 years old 🤷

Also, I’d need it to have a USB-type connection for a USB SSD drive to pop-out & connect to my Smart TV for viewing.

Let me introduce you to my friend Jellyfin.

I’m always a little hesitant when the thing involves crypto

There is no crypto.

Brother payment transfers have been enshittified for decades.

Link to extension

I bounced when they asked for my phone number. I think they should be working to implement Monero instead but this is still a good alternative to PayPal or Stripe.

DEI has been in the news the past few days as being some controversial concept. So I looked it up, and find out it means “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion”.

You realize that’s just a name, right? They can name things whatever they want.

The argument against it is that people are disadvantaged based on the color of their skin or their race. In other words, racism. That’s why some people are upset. People will deny this over and over but they’re simply being irrational and disingenuous because they don’t want to be associated with the word.

Now I’m gonna tell you something about this that no one else will: This type of racism is good. It’s meant to combat other types of much more prevalent racism.

Society just needs to acknowledge that racism isn’t an inherently bad word and then we’re all just better off.