jacktherippah

I think it usually just involves look around the comment sections. People are like "I'm on this instance, it's good blah blah blah."

In my case though I chose lemdro.id because it's an instance that centers around a topic I'm interested in.

Replying with a sarcastic comment.

You know, on the one hand, I really want to support the Fediverse. But on the other hand, too much social media is bad. So it's kind of a delicate balancing act.

Use small instances. I've never had trouble on lemdro.id.

GBoard is the one Google app I put in my owner profile. I've tried every recommendation I've seen and nothing else comes close to how good Gboard is.

GrapheneOS has a built in firewall but yeah anything that creates a firewall should work.

I'd use Firefox for Android if it had working per - site process isolation.

No it's not just an American thing. On my carrier I can have unlimited data all I want but hotspot is limited to 5GB/month and I have to pay for more or it goes down to 512Kbps basically unusable.

Try adding some blocklists, maybe the Hagezi ones. I remember NextDNS being quite good at that test.

But....why?

The most used communication app in my country is a homegrown, bloated, tracker - ridden privacy invading nightmare that the government keeps pushing by making people use it for actual OFFICIAL GOVERNMENT BUSINESS. I bet they're scanning everything in that app alright.