@CandaceRobbAuthor@patrickleavy@beastoftraal Specifically it’s a forwarding service, so you can generate unique addresses each time, and they all get forwarded to your existing inbox. Not only are trackers removed but if you should ever start receiving spam you’ll know exactly who sold/leaked the email address. Lastly you can disable/enable any address at any time.
Canadian friends, I applaud this push for a boycott of Facebook and Instagram August 23rd and 24th. I understand it's to encourage those companies to let Canadians share news again.
But don''t stop there. OPT OUT FOR GOOD. Canadians don't need the "social" giants--for news or anything else. We need an independent media sharing infrastructure away from those toxic tools. Get off for good, invest in independence, resilience and community connection, and don't look back.
@cyberlyra A two-day boycott will in the long term mean nothing for a giant like Meta. Learn from reddit users protesting the fiasco there in June. The two-day #redditblackout came and went and now it’s like nothing ever happened.
Blackouts need to be indefinite or until real, positive change comes. No union would strike for two days and then go back to work under the same conditions.
As an aside, any reason to ditch Zuck’s empires is a good one.
@shajith@danhon There are bots that people have set up that monitor the original twitter feed and post to Mastodon. You just can’t see what people have replied and your replies won’t be seen by the OP (which is a plus in my mind)
@jace Hello, do you know where I can go for help with posting on Mastodon? Specifically I’m having an issue with link previews not showing up in my posts when I use a URL.
@jace I’ve seen on some pages/forums that I might need to favourite and unfavourite the post or wait a minute to get it to work. Here is a post I made last week. The issue occurs with YouTube as well as news articles, and I’ve tried posting on mobile (via Ice Cubes) and on a desktop browser.