Do you need to login with a Twitter account? Or is it still possible to just ‘lurk’? I uninstalled fritter when the APIs were turned off.

Fritter as a Twitter client alternative Does fritter still work after twitter cut the APIs?

absolutely. And especially the ease of joining. I think it is important to not overwhelm the new Users with questions about which server to join etc…

there also is lemmur for Android.

Isn’t it the same with Lemmy? After the many blunders of Reddit, many users there certainly want a good alternative. But Reddit also has not only techsavy users. Perhaps we should learn from this and offer people Lemmy “simply” as an alternative, without talking much about decentralization when introducing this idea.

without paywall:

https://archive.ph/HCUMP

googleusercontent

I can highly recommend Posteo. I have been using it for several years. It costs 12€ a year, but in my opinion that is a rather ridiculous amount to really think twice. In addition, you also get 2 alias email addresses. And if you don’t want to have a “xyz@posteo.de” address you can also choose to have e.g. a “@posteo.net” or “@posteo.com” email.

yea you could be right. And specially in the regards of elderly or not that technicaly people Firefox with uBlock origins should be a good tradeoff between security and usability

At first glance after checking the Network log of NetGuard, this app calls the normal Reddit site. So your IP will be shared.

I would recommend Firefox with uBlock Origin as add-on. If they use Linux (probably not but, maybe there are some) install them LibreWolf. It is a FOSS fork of Firefox and comes nativity with uBlock Origin.

Edit: added links to comment.

what he is saying. To quote the user MiscreantMuse:

"For anyone who isn’t aware, Brave Browser is run by a terrible person .

It is also funded by Peter Thiel, the billionaire ‘conservative nationalist’ financing Facebook, Palantir Technologies, and the most egregious fascists in the Republican Party."

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