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Immediate flaws, I can see:

Cameras (or human observer) undo any sense of anonymity. A bad actor could link participant with account.

What’s preventing a MitM attack, where the BBEL (Big Bad Evil Librarian) substitutes the participant addresses with bot addresses?

That maxim is no longer true, especially in the medium-to-long term. Reddit posts older than 8 or so years old aren’t accessible (even to their creators), same with the original Digg posts. If you go back to the Usenet days, most posts haven’t been archived and are lost, especially those from the smaller newsgroups. I expect over the coming decades, we’ll see data loss as a growing issue.

I thought the first Star Wars DVD was the Phantom Menace in 2001, and the original (remastered) trilogy weren’t released on DVD until 2004.

Were they ever released on DVD? I have the VHS tapes. I thought the best quality version was laserdisc. Beyond that, they were all the remastered editions.

My understanding is that Roblox requires changes to the kernel to lock it down in order to prevent script kiddies from cheating. Linux makes that very difficult to impossible, so they abandoned/never supported the platform.

Can you play Roblox? I thought they blocked it on Linux.

My daily driver is a 10yo Dell business laptop. Before that I ran a similarly aged Lenovo. I run mint.

In my experience, the amount of ram and an SSD are the biggest contributors to how good the performance feels. Running mint on 4G is possible, but performance is comprised. 8G is perfectly fine most of the time. 16G (my current setup) is peachy keen. I’m astounded what I can do in blender on a 10yo machine.

That said, if you can afford one (and they operate in your country - they don’t here), then grab a framework, like others have said. If that’s not an option, then add some ram and an SSD.

My 2c.

Nextcloud.

It depends, but probably. I use 5-10yo laptops running Debian.

You can read most of The Guardian without JavaScript.

Try one of the existing instances. Pixelfed.social is probably a bad choice right now, as it’s getting overloaded with new members and so importing from Instagram has been curtailed. The others at https://pixelfed.org/servers should be fine. If you later choose to host your own instance you can always move the data from your old one.

How old are you? Once you reach middle-age shit starts breaking, even if you’re fit which most of us aren’t. You’ll notice a good bed at forty much more than you will at twenty. By sixty you’ll be demanding one.

I don’t believe you are. I’m not certain it’s been implemented… yet.

The entire Fediverse is a work in progress. It’s just better than the alternatives.

As an alternative for both, try searXNG.

https://searx.space/ for instances.

https://github.com/searxng/searxng for the code, you can run your own instance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SearXNG for the wikipedia article.

Personally, I find it returns much better results than anything currently available elsewhere. It reminds me of a time when search actually worked. Also, no ads and no tracking.

BTW, different instances can supply poorer results than others, so shop around to find the best one for you.

IIRC, they originally became popular because they saved characters for microblogs like Twitter. They’ve outlasted their usefulness though.

Yeah, nah. While copyrights are a problem as they’re currently employed, removing them would screw every content creator on the planet. Most of us don’t make much as it is, with only a few making a living from our work. Removing copyright would allow anyone to take what we produce without any compensation.

The corporations would love that.