Thank you for your informative reply :)

They are able to regulate the interest rate. We don’t perceive a change of value of our fiat on a regular basis. What yesterday was $1, today is $1.0000001. Good luck maintaining the same purchasing power with Bitcoin (in terms of stability)

Cryptocurrencies don’t rely on a central entity and is the Lemmy equivalent to Reddit compared to the fiat currency. I like it and I like the technology but

• Good luck at having a proper stable economy using only crypto. Cryptobros hate central banks but their policies ensure that a loaf of bread doesn’t cost 3 times as much the next day. I’d rather have a central trusted authority than not having one
• Bitcoin by itself sucks. It was the first crypto so it’s the most common but it’s slow, heavy and costly to operate and to transact on

But without federation questions and answers reside only on one server

May I ask you how? Or if you have more info? No criticism here, honest question. Afaik the only way to do that would be to fingerprint a behavioural pattern, which albeit possible is surely more secure than cell communication.

But we’re talking about a protest where bad actors (the police) just want the names of its attendants. Our phones scream to everyone “I am [name surname] and I am here!”. Bluetooth instead says the same but with a lower tone of voice, so less people can listen. Also, with little configuration you can instruct it not to broadcast its identifier.

What is unsafe about cell communication is that there is virtually no way to prevent being tracked. Bluetooth is not necessarily more secure but has several advantages:

1. Its Mac address can be easily changed. With a fake Mac address it’s more difficult to track someone down, albeit it needs some “technical skills” (going in the developer settings)
2. With these apps communication is encrypted by default unlike cell tower communication
3. The range is limited. If police listens over Bluetooth they’ll be able to track less people down

At protests you should not bring your smartphone but instead rely on anonymous drvices such as Meshtastic.

If you want to bring your smartphone to a protest, set Airplane mode and communicate with others through Bluetooth or WiFi networks using Briar or Bitchat

Downsides of being a vice Admiral of a country starting a war of aggression.

Lovely idea!

I appreciate CoMaps but for now they don’t differ in functionalities at all. Will consider switching in case Organic really enshittifies

Understandable. Yeah, it’s a matter of preference.

I personally do not like the

People who get downvoted a lot end up with a ‘low reputation’ indicator next to their name

I think this creates a prejudice on the person before you even read what they have to say and overall increases the echo camber effect.

and the

Upvotes in meme communities do not add to reputation.

to me seems quite an arbitrary rule.

I think he’ll get punched in the face, as customary for nazis attending Metalfests

My internal monologue is always in my native language but if I need to talk to somebody my brain switches to the language I need so I need no ‘translation’

Sarcasm…

Tried Jami, unfortunately it’s still Alpha/Beta quality software in my opinion. Frequent glitches made me go crazy

Add some sugar for better results

Insane number of Artillery, MLRS and AA systems.

Didn’t think of this, that’s nice! Burn baby