That’s weird. The bluesky links in the article work fine for me, and I don’t have a bluesky account.
Ahh hang on, this one doesn’t work but all the rest do
https://bsky.app/profile/megzavala.bsky.social/post/3lmdz2tu6xk2x
Ahh here we go: it’s a user made setting not a bluesky one
“Sign-in Required This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. This label was applied by the author.”
In addition to fdroid (your other reply) you can uae aurora as an anonymous front end to play store.
You’ll need to download it off fdroid or the git page
Can’t or don’t ?
It’s hard to compete against the mega buck providers, however if there is suddenly political willingness to buy locally then there are vendors that can build the capability. They’ll only do so if it is likely to be profitable though. Chicken / egg conundrum that the EU and national govts can help solve
I think you have comprehensively missed the point of this post.
This post: “people under threat here’s some things you can do to lower your profile, mitigate risk a little” (positive actions)
Your comment (initial & reply): " how did the US let this happen & why didn’t you fight it, why aren’t you fighting it now"
That assumes a) the people most under threat are the same people who should be/can be fighting it b) that they didnt before the election and c) that the actions you prescribe will be effective.
So. Are your assumptions valid and do they actually add anything by voicing them ?
I know many in the US queer community worked tirelessly to prevent Trump being elected (assumption b) but now they really do need to get as low profile as possible, because there is a pogrom coming. Straight white people can afford to protest, the numbers are there. Minorities in small numbers not so much. Easy pickings.
Agreed, also the assertion that most are Latin derived seems questionable. I count Portugal, Spain France Belgium (part), Italy, Romania, Luxembourg (French partial) Switzerland (part & not EU) . Ireland (part & saying English is Latin derived is really stretching it)
Non Latin (Germanic / Slavic) is Belgium, Lux (Lux lang), Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Norway (not EU) Finland, Estonia, Latvia Lithuania, Poland, Czechia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland (part), Croatia, Montenegro, N.Macedonia, Greece, Malta, Cyprus, Ireland (part)
Did I forget anyone ?
That gives 9 Latin derived, 24 not Latin (noting double count of partial and including 2 large technically non EU)
Left out the 3 non EU micro nations of Andorra, Monaco & Lichtenstein but even if included it’s 1/3 latin, 2/3rds non Latin by count. Probably the same by population but I can’t be arsed to look it up
(Also ignored the UK for obvious reasons)
I’m increasingly annoyed at all these posts going "here’s how to lock down your comms from all the people coming after you for all the protesting you’re not doing.
People aren’t going to be coming after LGBTQ+ people “for the protesting” they are or are not doing.
They’ll be coming for them because they’re queer.
If you’ve even been paying a little bit of attention the magats have made it clear the two main minorities in their sights for the first round are immigrants and trans ppl.
They’ve already sent a US citizen to an El Salvadorian camp and shrugged and said sorry, can’t reverse that now.
If you think the rest of the queer minority are not in their sights you’re kidding yourself (and us)
Check your privilege.
It’s demographics. Linux contributors & maintainers skew heavily to the older end of the spectrum (and, although not relevant to this point, also skew heavily male).
People who can contribute time to a project for free tend to be older because they are financially and career settled by the time they hit 50s. Raising a family tends not to leave a lot of spare time.
Oh lord, what now ?