> be me
> ex-tech support wagie living in the frozen wastes of Canada
> watch news, see surveillance state literally killing people
> get radicalized.mkv
> decide to write a passionate call to arms for the self-hosted community
> "guys, it's not a hobby anymore, it's resistance infrastructure"
> type it out with proper grammar and formatting because I'm not a savage
> post to Lemmy, expect maybe 12 upvotes from fellow nerds

> wake up next day
> 1000+ score
> notifications.exe has crashed
> open comments to see the revolution beginning
> half the thread: "WE RIDE AT DAWN"
> other half: "OP IS A FED TRYING TO HONEYPOT US"
> apparently using bullet points and spellcheck makes you a CIA psyop in 2026
> if it's anyone's psyop it's MY psyop god damnit
> mfw my "evil honeypot" is literally just telling people to use end-to-end encryption that I can't access
> logic 100

> meanwhile, the "privacy absolutists" screech about purity
> I don't have time to argue about command lines vs GUIs
> just want to give normal people parallel tools that actually work for THEM
> realize this is my life now
> the revolution isn't guy fawkes masks and hacking mainframes
> the revolution is breaking down "infrastructure" into tools grandma can actually use

> is this resistance?
> refresh page
> guess I've got my work cut out for me
> maybe.jpeg
  • E_coli42@lemmy.world
    58·
    2 days ago

    There needs to be more FOSS that isn’t geared towards nerds. I want to be able to recommend apps to people and it JustWorks™ without having them even know.

    This is why I love the Signal Foundation

    • wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org
      27·
      2 days ago

      I’ve been saying that for years. So many fantastic FOSS applications are obviously made by engineers for engineers.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 day ago

        IANADeveloper…but now I gotta wonder what the OS of choice for UX/frontend devs is. I want to guess macOS.

          • E_coli42@lemmy.world
            11·
            1 day ago

            I literally just use Claude for UX. It makes my apps so pretty and intuitive and I don’t have to worry about boring UX design.

      • E_coli42@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 day ago

        I tried it and YouTube videos didn’t work for some reason. Said I needed to sign in. Never had that issue with NewPipe.

        I love FUTO’s products like their keyboard (what I’m typing this reponse on lol) and Immich, but slightly dislike their license for discrimination against commercial use and not copylefting.

        • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
          1·
          1 day ago

          You need to enable the setting in sources for the bypass. Youtube started putting in soft bans for VPN IPs and age restricted videos by forcing users to sign in (even in a web browser). Grayjay does have a bypass, which sometimes can counter the issue (you also can disable the login fallback so you don’t get asked to sign in anymore).

          This is largely something that’s happened recently - probably wasn’t in effect when you were using Newpipe.