Sweden,Lituania,Denmark, Norway, Poland, that I know of, off the top of my head. And for the dystopian feeling you have, consider that its required for banking, tax filing and things where you would otherwise have to prove your identity with a government issued ID or passport. So no more dystopian than being required to show Id when taking out a house loan.

To quote Adam Savage; The one skill to focus on, is how easy you are to work with. People will always take the less skilled but easy to interact with person, before the “full of them self” savant.

I’m using the word quote here in the broadest of sense. Cause I know I’m butchering the quote. Only remember the gist of it.

App images, love the fact that they exist thou sometimes graphically jarring. Sure… ever only used them for two different applications. Both pretty niche. And not available in my distro repo or flathub. Not advocating for it to become something universal,or anything but they seem pretty distro agnostic. Which I’m guessing is easier to maintain? Or not? Not a developer.

You can use pgp encryption with mailbox, there is an option for it in the settings.

When I was looking for European alternatives to google I came a cross an insightfull comment regarding E2EE mail providers. Basically the person made the point that unless whom ever you are emailing is also using,E2EE then you aren’t really gaining anything from having it on your end.

In my case I felt I needed a provider, with CALdav and he ability to use an email client like Thunderbird. So I landed on mailbox.org

The law makes an exception for corporations, law and military, government officials and … Here is the kicker organisations. So we can just create a non profit organisation with the goal of free and secure communication for all it’s members and we would be exempt from it.

Douvets > blankets

Also just the douvet covers or bed sheets , and are perfect summer alternatives.

Indeed! But let’s be the change we want!

Do you have any good mastodon, pixelfed or peertube or other fediverse recommendations to follow ? I’m still new here so my feeds are pretty monocultural (to borrow an agricultural term).

Thanks you for letting me know that my interpretation wasn’t completely off base.

Well I have an idea and its a bit archaic but it just might work. Local homegrown news bulletins. Like how punk rock bands and other subcultures back in the day spread around. Registers and news, and compilations of cool sites you and your group of friends or “club” have found. The old internet had loads of sites or BBS’s that were link lists.

It doesn’t have to be janky paper magazine’s. But communities need to engage more in genuine material and sites. Remember happy tree friends? No algorythm spread that. Kids did! Same thing with meatspin and all those crazy sites and content. Word of mouth is crazy powerful. Like take peertube for example, finding content you like there ain’t as easy as on YouTube. But if you in a group / forum honestly recomend something or someone you found, chances are someone like minded that didn’t know of it, now finds it. But we can’t, on the other hand, go around and spam everything we find.

So monthly bulletins of content, sites etc in a forum would be my 2 cents.

I think Alk is referencing, the concept of perverse incentives. Without explicitly saying it. It’s a concept, or a way of refering to an incentive structure that gives un-desirable results, in economics.

Example: When clicks give you ad revenue. And hurt kittens nurtured back to health gives the most clicks. People start hurting kittens, so they have more to nurture back to health for clicks.

Edit: my example is unfortunately a very real thing. Multiple channels on YT have been found to do it. Someone else will have to find the articles about it. I don’t want to ruin my day reading about it again.

If the IBD folks don’t unite under this answer they are probably living with bidets.