Late to the party, but worth resounding all the same. This exactly. My community’s corner of the internet, is very much seen as a cyber-fort of sorts, not just due to the sovereignty aspect, but as a safe space where the right to privacy is upheld. We started with on-boarding friends and friends of friends. But now? We’re on-boarding families. We’re exploring on-boarding smaller communities that cannot host their own infra.

Even if you’re in your 30’s or 40’s or potentially older, we take technology and the internet for granted - But so many seem to not realize how we have all the tools we need to take power back, to ensure, in a verifiable way, governments work for the people and not the other way around. We just need to take action. And that begins with us. The practitioners of technomancy. The Homelabbers. The Infra gurus. Heck, all the rebels. We need to build censorship-resistant, resilient infra that shows every person has the right to, and is able to, hold their own data and solely share it as, when and if they see fit.

When it comes to decentralization and sovereignty it’s easy to think every**one **should host their own data, and while this would be the ideal scenario, this is also much harder to achieve, and at that thought we arrive and face a brick-wall - In which case, it’s important to accept TRUST through COMMUNITY and VERIFIABLE software. Communities CAN build a trust-model to host others’ data as long as the individual is not willing. And this is ok, it’s a stepping stone towards the ideal.

In the end, the only real option is to opt-out of a system we can no longer in good conscious adhere to.

Same can be achieved with Proton, which accept Bitcoin. Bitcoin is pseudonymous, so just buy on a DEX/P2P, and transact, there will be no link to your PII. Buying on a CEX links to PII.

Jellyfin + Arr* Suite == chillin’ and singing shanties in the high seas.

Nice to see Matrix’s Element client on there. Has definitely become my go-to and even managed to get friends, family, and my gaming community on there, replacing Discord entirely

Don’t get the EU flag though, we should be pushing for global sovereign alternatives. Thos could indicate the inverse in that these applications/platforms are not useable outside EU which is incorrect, and unfortunate.

Odysee did/does something interesting where if one uses the desktop client, the video gets streamed and cached, and then seeded back over a configurable amount of time. I could see creator’s communities being self-sustainable this way.

Thanks for the response, this makes sense I suppose. I personally like being explicit and knowing-at-a-glance what is currently configured, but I can see some defaults being useful for many beginners for instance, and keeping config cleaner.

This sounds interesting. But in that case, how are headers set? From a security and even privacy standpoint the correct headers can be quite important. How do you enable/disable http2 and http3?

Lightning is indeed NOT a fork of a Bitcoin, it’s essentially a Layer 2 for Bitcoin (if you think in terms of the Internet’s TCP/IP model). It solves pretty much every use case created by any Altcoin when competing with Bitcoin, as Bitcoin chose security and decentralization over scalibility in its base layer (on-chain).

As for buying Monero, I only deal with Bitcoin, but I’m pretty sure you can easily buy Monero still as long as you don’t use centralised exchanges (permissioned), and instead use Decentralised ones (permissionless). That’ll be the case for any altcoin that still has decent popularity for the foreseeable.

Not exactly. Lightning makes it super cheap and instant.

Bitcoin is pseudonymous - Transactions are transparent, yes, but the addresses are not linked to any PII - The exception comes in when the user uses a Centralised Exchange that does exactly this, it bridges anonymous addresses with PII via KYC.

Bitcoin can be sold anonymously using P2P DEXs (decentralised exchanges), where the fiat transaction has no link to Bitcoin.

That’s assuming they even would want to sell.

All in all, it comes down to how the user uses the tool. Bitcoin can be as privacy preserving as anyone wants. But if they KYC, they can kiss any privacy goodbye, and really, that’s the misunderstanding that has reached most non-Bitcoin users these days. Experiences based on a lack of understanding.