I start to like Signal a lot more recently, just because it actually has ui/ux not worse than usual messengers while actually working and having proper end to end encryption

It is not anonymous, has some small issues like not having proper message editing feature, and does not support UnifiedPush yet (FOSS version of Molly still works with background connection better than Telegram with google firebase, and Google reliant versions have ability to hide massage sender and contents)

Small reddit migration related recommendations to newbies:

- There are a lot of servers, also called instances or even nodes. Their fundanental differences from subreddits is that they are actually owned by different people (not just created and moderated by them), they may use entirely different software, but people from them can interact with one another freely

Software like mastodon and pleroma are twitter alternatives with every post abd reply being post, kbin and lemmy are reddit alternative that have groups simmilar to subreddits, there instagram alternative pixelfed, and youtube alternative peertube - they all allow interacting with one another, though with several technical limitations.

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Since servers are open source, there is alway open to use API! Don’t be afraid to use third party apps from Play Store, App Store, or, ideally, F-Droid “store”. There are also “legal” bot accounts that do stuff from posting anime pics to posting AI-generated text based on dataset from people who made them.

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If you wish to get along with existing community, please follow local etiquette

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Do alt text for images you post, even nsfw :cirno_heh: ! It helps visually impaired, people that have trouble concentrating on visual content, and more.

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Read instance rules! There are less people per instance, so checks are through and moderators care, and if you don’t like rules on instance your on, migrate to another. (Instances can also block each other)

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Know that commercial accounts are not welcome here. This, of course, usually excludes small things like individual people that make something to sell, or small local businesses (though there is usually nothing to do for later here), but big companies usually receive backlash for just coming here

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Don’t believe everything said on the internet. There are servers like brands.town and gosuslugi.social (russian) that made entirely from parody accounts, there are people who are only here because they were banned for conspiracies on other platforms, etc.

Anti-bot idea for tf2:

You usually get webpage in "Movie" screen when you enter custom server. What if it would tell you that you need to pick a specific class (excluding sniper since it is a usual bot pick) upon entering or you will be kicked.

It could use slightly distorted images generated randomly, to make this kind of capcha like thing