[tde-users] Re: Mastodon servers - dig this! [OT]

On Tuesday 07 May 2024 19:08:39 William Morder wrote: Well, it appears that I spoke too soon. That is just their own Mastodon feed. I did try to subscribe to TDE's rss feed using akregator-trinity (and I even tried to run it over Tor). Everything worked fine, except for when I tried to read the actual feed <https://floss.social/@tde.rss>, and again I get the message that I cannot read it without enabling javascript and (if I recall) cookies. Now, if I enable javascript, that negates any benefit that I get by using a proxy; javascript reveals pretty much all details about one's machine. If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself: https://ipleak.net/ It is odd that people have some idea that Mastodon is more private, but if all your information is out there where everybody can see it, then it's not really private, and somebody out there will be tracking it. The same with E.Liddell's suggestion about setting up one's own instance. It doesn't help, unless we can be truly anonymous. So again, I am glad it's there for others, but it's not for me. And so far, I don't feel that I am missing much; not enough to make me want to use Mastodon, anyway. When I was searching for Mastodon applications, I found several IRC and Jabber clients, and I hear that Pidgin has plugins for Mastodon, but the only connection I have seen with Jabber is that people on Mastodon like to use Jabber to send direct messages. There are still a few options for getting the rss feed, but I doubt that my results will be different. Bill