There’s also clauses about revoking your license if you try to sue them, and how you need to still include the system to pay them in your modified version.

I’m pretty sure most screen readers and stuff like copy/paste would also get whatever nonsense you filled it with.

A lot of the ways they scrape documents are the same used by accessibility tools, so I’d generally recommend against doing this.

I just want to add that it’s not just the idea of gender being immutable, it’s identity as a whole. So much of society is built around stuff like legal names. They use them to track and control people. And then trans people are out there deciding to change them just because we want to, or using prefered names that don’t match our legal names. The idea that people can just decide who they want to be is threatening to them.

I haven’t seen anything quite like that yet, but for federated music there’s bandwagon.fm which is more of a bandcamp equivalent. There’s a lot of fediverse projects, so it wouldn’t suprise me if there’s something out there.

Sorted them into a few categories

Social

• Cheogram - xmpp chat, can also handle phone and sms gateways

• Fedilab - my preferred fediverse app for mastodon

• Jerboa - preferred lemmy app

• K-9 Mail - email

• Pixelix - pixelfed app. not sure if I like this or PixelDroid better yet

Media

• AntennaPod - podcasts

• Kiwix - offline copies of useful wikis, q&as, archives, etc.

• Librera FD - books

• NewPipe - watch youtube videos, although google keeps trying to break it

• Voice - audiobooks

Security

• Aegis - two factor authentication

• KeePassDX - password management

• WG Tunnel - VPN connection, still not sure if this is the best option

Notes and Documents

• Orgzly Revised - note taking. for people not familiar with emacs something like logseq or safe notes might be better

• Pinkt - bookmarks

• Syncthing-Fork - synchronize files between devices

System

• F-Droid - technically it can install itself

• Lawnchair - alternative home screen / app launcher

• ntfy - runs in the background, handles push notifications for some other apps

• Unexpected Keyboard - has the fancy keys that most android keyboards leave out

Other Tools

• Fennec - basically firefox

• Organic Maps - sometimes missing info and it doesn’t have traffic data. simpler than OsmAnd

• PocketPaint - make art on your phone

• QuickDict - offline multi-language dictionary

I’ve got hundreds more installed, but those are some of my favorites.

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Personal data storage can be decentralized, although that’s missing the social part of the social network.

Identities are set up through a centralized system that in theory they could change, but I wouldn’t bet on it.

Relays supposedly can be decentralized, but need to handle all data on the network. So they require massive hosting costs that keep going up as more people use bluesky. Only large corporations can likely afford to run them, and that hasn’t happened yet.

Looks good. I’ve always found it annoying that lemmy doesn’t do this by default.

I’m not sure about the license though. Creative Commons recommends against using their licenses for software, since it doesn’t include terms regarding source code, doesn’t handle patents, and it’s usually incompatible with free software licenses.

The github page for overleaf seems to indicate the community edition is AGPL.

Some other fediverse software like hubzilla and sharkey let you migrate posts, so I wouldn’t say it’ll never happen. I don’t think anyone is working on it though, so probably not anytime soon.

There’s lem.el for Emacs.

There was another one but it doesn’t work anymore. It hasn’t been updated in 3 years.

It usually implies it’s weird in an old-fasioned way though.

Hacker’s Keyboard hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years, so it can be slightly buggy.

Unexpected Keyboard is pretty good. It’s got the complete keyboard layout available including stuff like Control and Function keys, so I think it’s an acceptable replacement. It uses swipes to type other keys, which I’m not sure if I prefer, but it works well enough. I set the swipe distance higher because I would accidentally swipe from time to time.

If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.

edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.

GoToSocial is designed for small / single user instances. There’s more with similar goals like snac, seppo, pub, ktistec, tapir, shuttlecraft, activities.next, and microblog.pub, but I haven’t really looked into them so I’m not sure on the status of each. There’s a nice list of activitypub software at delightful fediverse apps if you want to look at more options.

It looks like a good extension, but I feel like my setup works better for my workflow. Tab groups with auto tab discard has a similar effect, and there’s an archive option for when I really want to unload the whole group.

Tab groups are really handy for multitasking if you use multiple desktops. I have a window open on each desktop, and switching between tab groups switches to the relevant desktop.

I use firefox, so I’m not positive if all of these are available for chromium based browsers.

Each extension varies in how big it is, so there isn’t an easy rule for how many extensions to use. Also, if you’re trying to increase privacy, many extensions can make your browser fingerprint more easily identifiable.

• uBlock Origin - I have it set to block everything by default like NoScript, whitelisting sites as I use them. I used to use uMatrix for this before it was discontinued, but this works well enough.

• Tridactyl - Advanced vim-like keybindings. It has more features than something like Vimium, but I’ve had it occasionally break sites so I had to change the noiframe settings listed on the troubleshooting page.

• Midnight Lizard - I’ve been using this lately instead of Dark Reader. It has much more customization, but I’ve occasionally had it mess up on some sites.

• CanvasBlocker - Sends out fake info to make your browser fingerprint different each time. This doesn’t fully prevent fingerprinting with how I have my add-ons set up, but it at least makes the job harder for trackers and gives them less real data.

• Local CDN - local copies of common libraries, so you don’t access a bunch of 3rd party sites to download javascript. This sends your data to fewer sites, but if you’re trying to stay anonymous it makes your fingerprint more unique.

• AutoTabDiscard - This unloads inactive tabs, which comes in handy if you have a ton of tabs open. You can disable it for any sites you always want to keep active. You can also tweak how many tabs to keep open and how long before it tries to discard them.

• Leechblock NG - Set time limits for how long you want to spend on each site. If you use it right it can help break addictions to certain websites.

• Stylus - I use it for a couple of sites that just have really terrible styles or don’t work well with dark mode.

• AutoFill Forms - Handy for if you have any repetitive forms you need to fill out.

• DownThemAll - I don’t use it often, but really useful when there’s a bunch of links to download.

• ViolentMonkey - Per site custom javascript. I don’t use this much, but occasionally comes in handy to make a website do what you want.

• Tab Reloader - for sites that you want to keep refreshed.

I’ve got a bunch for integration with various websites and software:

• Plasma Integration - This integrates stuff like video playback and notifications into KDE. Also needs a package installed to connect to. There’s also Gnome Shell Extension, which does a similar thing for for Gnome.
• Flatline - Install flatpaks more easily from flathub website. I usually avoid flatpaks, but it’s convenient for when I do.
• Mastodon Simplified Federation - More easily interact with other mastodon sites to forward to your server.
• SponsorBlock for YouTube - I really hate ads.
• Bypass Paywall Clean - This gets around paywalls for a bunch of news sites. It’s not on mozilla’s add-on page, so need to get it off gitlab.
• Pinboard Pin - for my bookmarks.
• BlueLiteBlocker - I rarely go on twitter, but blocking all the top replies with blue checkmarks makes it slightly less terrible.
• RedditEnhancementSuite - I don’t use reddit much lately, but when I do, this makes it more usable.
• moderator toolbox for reddit - mod tools for reddit
• TinEye - just adds a right click option for images to do reverse image search.

I’m pretty sure these are Firefox only, but I’ll leave them here for anyone else who’s interested.

• Simple Tab Groups - I like using this to organize my tabs into groups. There’s probably better ways to not have so many tabs open but it’s convenient to have a bunch of open tabs when I want them.

• Multi-Account Containers - Helpful if you have multiple accounts on the same site, or want to keep your cookies separate for different tasks.

• Firefox Translations - adds more language options to Firefox’s offline translation.

It can also happen with apps from the main repo. If the app is reproducible (about 5% so far, most new apps) then F-Droid will use the developer signature.

It hasn’t had a real release in about 5 years though. It uses a very old API so it’s slightly buggy.

I’ve been using Unexpected Keyboard lately instead. It’s the only modern keyboard I’ve found that has stuff like control and function keys. It uses swiping on keys to get more characters though, so it takes some getting used to. I had to set the swipe distance higher so I don’t have as many typos.