I mostly block specific communities that I just don’t want to see. Cartoon porn? No judgement if you’re into it, but there semms to be a lot and it’s not my thing. If I notice you spamming propaganda constantly (ie, PJ) I’m blocking you. Stop clogging my feed with your low effort ax-grinding. Other than that, you really have to demonstrate bad faith.

Don’t be afraid to block users.

Votes don’t really matter here. Some instances dont even have downvotes! Just don’t worry about it. If you do want to worry about it, then just accept that not everyone is bound by your ideas about the purpose of the down vote.

Well, kind of. They could have your phone, but you have a strong passcode locking Signal, or you could have uninstalled Signal, as in the OP. In those cases, the full Signal conversations would be protected, while any notification history stored by the system would be recoverable.

Read the original story. This whole thing is about retrieving data from the phone itself, not from Apple or Google servers.

Android Settings>Notifications>History. If this is on, you can clearly see past Signal notifications, including sender name and message preview (if you enabled those in Signal). I don’t know whether there is any ‘hidden’ history/cache that is stored even with notification history disabled.

It’s not about how it’s pushed. It’s how it’s displayed (and stored) on the phone.

Greed is a kind of disease.

Diversity of opinions isn’t automatically good for its own sake. I’m sure with a little imagination, you can come up with all sorts of objectively stupid opinions. Are those what you want to sift through? If you have a space where you allow all opinions no matter what, you’ll end up overwhelmed by the stupidest ones. If you moderate at all, you will always be accused of bias by someone. If you doubt any of this, just start hosting your own server!

tl;dr: different places have different vibes. That’s OK. Not everywhere has to contain all opinions.

Iran will have access to Chinese and Russian satellite images, as well as their own “on the ground” intelligence assessments. This move is more likely meant to control public perception in the US.

Any of our news orgs simply won’t publish them.

Don’t worry kid, you’ll get your chance too.

I can definitely relate to this question. The tension between self-improvement and self-acceptance. The older I get, the more I lean towards the latter. I’ve spent waaayy too long beating myself up over my faults, but never managing to correct them. Why continue feeling bad?

Thrift store boombox.

My wife is “xennial” and her music tastes skew younger. Lots of younger artists are selling cassettes and CDs at their merch tables. We have more tapes and discs in our house than I ever had in the 90s.

Uh, votes don’t matter here. That’s one of the improvements over Reddit.

Get fucked you loser nonce. Can’t wait to drag you through the streets.

Zionists eat shit.

“At night all the ancients, and the superhuman crew, come out and round up everyone, who knows more than they do.”

“Goddam, well I declare, have you seen the like? Their walls are built of cannonballs, their motto is don’t tread on me.”

“I don’t know, but I’ve been told that it’s hard to run with the weight of gold. Other times I’ve heard it said, that it’s just as hard with the weight of lead. One way or another, something’s got to give. One way or another, this darkness got to give.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKr3Acrovio

This dude also has some solid videos on flock (and other things). Everyone should know that cities and towns are kicking flock out left and right. Use this momentum to organize against them in your town too!