Saki

I’ve found two possible solutions:

• If you use some kind of Lemmy reader instead of using a browser, it may have a filtering function, like “hide post including this word” like using regex.
• “After complaining yesterday about seeing too much Linux content in the Fediverse” — this Lemmy user seemed to have experienced a similar problem, and finally found a fundamental (albeit rather unexpected) solution. Read more: https://lemmy.world/post/8107430

Thunderbird doesn’t passphrase-protect your PGP key. Though you can set a general password… For something less important, its OpenPGP may be convenient, given that if you send/receive email normally, there is metadata problem anyway. But if you need to play it safe, you may want to use gpg offline and paste ascii.

Increasingly more and more “phoning home” is not exactly comfortable, either: thunderbird-settings.thunderbird(.)net location.services.mozilla(.)com addons.thunderbird(.)net versioncheck.addons.thunderbird(.)net services.addons.thunderbird(.)net, etc. Perhaps people today, both users and developers, feel something like this is normal, because things were already more or less like this when they were born.

Re: Micro$oft - It might be that after raped by Google, the society has been desensitized and stopped feeling anything about “minor details.” Why worrying now? You use a Windows 10 passport account (what is it called?) just to log on to “your own” computer and also a Gmail account anyway, right? So bad news is, your privacy is almost zero already.

Thanks for posting the pic! So this is the source of the quotes about the kidnapping incident.

The key point is, you have the choice.

This could mean two different things. 1) You have the choice to use XMR; draw your own conclusions. [positive implications] -OR- 2) Monero is not good; there is no option to freeze it. [negative implications]

PS: Happened to find a still-working privacy instance (Tor-friendly) https://nitter.oksocial.net/cz_binance/status/1723032911278960959#m and I’ll quote:

CZ 🔶 Binance The key point is, you have the choice.

Crypto Eagles I have no choice coz I am afraid of BANKS 😅 so i am all in $BTC

CZ 🔶 Binance It's a good choice. We are lucky to have it.

That might be a good point :)

Crypto’s reputation is just that bad.

That’s what I was vaguely assuming too. So those rather favorable (pro-privacy) vibes there were unexpected.

I don’t think BTC is all bad, nor XMR is all good, but I think you have a beautiful dream.

Someone once said something like: “A dream without a plan is just a dream.” Then I was like, “A dream with a plan is just a business plan. If you think your dream may well come true, your dream is not big enough.”

Admittedly it may sound weird, as if trying to protect a kidnapper or thief. But that’s not the point. If they can freeze “bad guy’s” funds, they can freeze anyone’s funds. The problem is, “they” can define something or someone arbitrarily as “bad”.

On the other hand, of course any Monero supporter thinks it would be nice if we could catch the attacker(s) and the stolen funds would be returned. Is this self-contradictory?

Never seriously checked these stats. As of writing this, !monero@monero.town = 1.05K subscribers and only 8 users / day, that’s the largest community here if I’m not mistaken; whereas !technology@lemmy.world = 47.1K subscribers, 974 users / day—roughly 100 times bigger, they’re a whale compared with monero.town. It seems our 2nd largest community is !privacy@monero.town: only 260 subscribers, 1 user / day. I (Saki) seem to be one of “privacy” mods, whatever it means. Is this a status automatically given after you created a certain number of new posts?

Anyway, I was assuming that most general people were seeing crypto negatively (because crypto-related posts tend to be automatically downvoted, even if it’s just an innocent joke as in memes, or a normal post like “Use p2pool, it’s zero-fee”), and was surprised to see those positive comments from “outsiders” (?). Apparently there are quite a few people who know Bitcoin was originally not like a “get rich quick” scheme, but it was experimental with some deep philosophy; and that Monero is in a way its spiritual successor.

Then again, many people in !technology@lemmy.world are probably Linux-using geeks. As such they’re tech-savvy, not representing “general people“.

You’re right. I’m new to social media in general, and was misunderstanding that Monero.town is where Monro-related discussions take place on Lemmy. A better interpretation seems to be: Monero.town is for Monero users, while !Technology@lemmy.world is where people talk about (computer) technology in general.

One is for Monero users, so it’s relatively small, quiet and cozy. The other is about technology, including but not limited to cryptocurrencies, so it’s large and busy. Since Monro is a technology, they may talk about it too. Makes sense.

https://monero.town/post/894750 So you did f2f… Glad it works, though. But how to buy it is irrelevant to the OP and is off-topic, so we shouldn’t be talking about that here.

Basically I’d never recommend anyone to buy a significant amount of crypto hoping that you can get rich quick with that. Yes, it might go up, but it may go down. Encouraging such sketchy gambling would be crazy and irresponsible, and more importantly that’s not the original purpose of this technology. Yet you already even know localmonero, so yeah, you’re simply one of us. If you’d like to you can join monero.town or subscribe it from your instance :)

It doesn’t need to be today. You don’t need to ditch it completely, but if you’d like to, you can use two machines side by side. It’s about freedom. No one should force you to do anything. Good luck!

Originally Bitcoin had nothing to do with “get rich quick”. It felt vaguely like Freenet. It was experimental, philosophical, mathematical, cypherpunk… Almost no one had imagined that investors were going to be interested in it and something like that fad would happen.

Unfortunately it’s not easy to get Monero. In several countries, CEXes don’t support it (delisted). Besides, getting Monero from CEX is not ideal privacy-wise. So, a typical Monero user gets it no-KYC, without using CEX. Which is legal, but rather complicated. That’s why I wouldn’t recommend Monero to regular people.

As you said, Monero is such a great way for payment in a practical sense. Very low fees (~1 cent, no matter how much you send), private (only you can authorize transaction, no need to get a permission from someone else). The community is relatively small (monero.town on Lemmy), but generally nice and cozy. We seldom, if ever, talk about investment… It’s so different from what people think when they hear “crypto”. It’s understandable that some people assume it’s just one of those alt sh*tcoins.