The article talk about a desktop version of Briar, but they only show an Android version:

https://briarproject.org/download-briar/

I think you could use a Tor proxy on your server to avoid sharing your IP. Or use a VPN.

Passwords should never go unencrypted, shouldn’t they? For example, my mail password doesn’t travel unencrypted using using tls, etc. Nor my passwords travelling using https, do they?

So, are Lemmy passwords traveling unencrypted??

You can use Flatpaks on other distros, for example on Debian. And also snap, etc.

For example G1 / libre currency, a social crypto who is not using PoW, just a simple method to create new money assign every real persona a fix little amount to create (web of trust). More info: https://duniter.org/

My personal alternative choice:

• Timewarrior (timew). (Terminal / CLI)
• Redmine StopWatch: https://www.redmine.org/plugins/stopwatch
• Gtimer (linux desktop app)

I use to do some work on open source paid by mu customers, but they never know about it :-) For example, if I need to translate some strings (l10n) I translate a bunch of strings, more than required, for community profits. The same if I’m helping to solve an issue…

But it’s always a way to help open source projects just make a personal donation, as a developer, because our money is, in fact, the money our customers pay us (freelancers, for example).

Internationalization, i18n (not just l10n, localization). So, you can create communities only visible on a specific language, etc.

Use pinephone ;-) It has hardware switches and runs linux :-p

You could use Syncthing too, to synchronize between your devices: mobile, laptop, PC…

https://collapse.cat/c/main Collapse, climate emergency, etc. (Catalan/Spanish)

What about librecurrency?

https://duniter.org/en/

I use IspConfig to host websites.

What reddit flairs are?

No, I don’t mean the “Mastodon feature”. I mean, for example in my site collapse.cat, a community called “Peak Oil” to talk in English about the peak oil, and another community, called “Cenit del petroli”, to speak about the SAME TOPIC but in a Catalan community. Imagine you have an instance in Canada (English/French), in Barcelona (Catalan/Spanish) or just a website with international vocation (English/Chinese/Spanish/Arabic).

What am I talking about could be achieved just launching several instances, one for each language, but could be managed easily if Lemmy has i18n features.

I like tags, but, as you say, there are other applications what use them, like Mastodon. For example, there I use them to build “views” with info of topics I’m interested in.

Thank you for your answer! I think Lemmy it’s a very interesting tool, with o without tags. IMHO a killer feature is that it can federate with Mastodon, etc.