The Great Migration 🚀
X ➡️ https://joinmastodon.org
IG ➡️ https://pixelfed.org
FB ➡️ https://friendi.ca
TikTok ➡️ https://joinloops.org
YouTube ➡️ https://joinpeertube.org
WhatsApp ➡️ https://signal.org
Ethical. Federated*. Open.
Spread the word ✨
* - I know signal isn't federated, consider @matrix or @xmpp alternatively
@dansup
> * - I know signal isn't federated, consider @matrix or @xmpp alternatively
How about pointing to https://quicksy.im/ rather than Signal? And @snikket_im for those who prefer #selfhosting ?
#Quicksy is by far the easiest way to get into #XMPP, and it behaves like WhatsApp (and Signal) users expect, with automatic contact discovery.
We need truly open instant messaging, not more walled gardens. However much good Signal has done for privacy in IM, it is *not* the golden answer to WhatsApp, Telegram, and all the other monolithic platforms.
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), which disallows to load a lot of CIDRs for these countries to the blacklist.
![Part of the script to update npf blacklists. Script contents:
# List of blocked countries:
# AE - United Arab Emirates
# AF - Afganistan
# BY - Belarus
# CN - China
# CU - Cuba
# HK - Hong Kong
# HU - Hungary
# IR - Iran
# KP - North Korea
# KW - Kuwait
# PK - Pakistan
# PS - Palestine
# TW - Taiwan
# UA - Ukraine
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_COUNTRIES_SOURCE" | \
/usr/bin/egrep '^[0-9.,]+((AE)|(AF)|(BY)|(CN)|(CU)|(HK)|(HU)|(IR)|(KP)|(KW)|(PK)|(PS)|(TW)|(UA))$' | \
/usr/bin/awk -F, '{ print $1, "-", $2 }' | \
/usr/pkg/bin/iprange > /usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
if [ "$?" -ne "0" ]; then
echo "Failed to update countries blacklist"
rm -f /usr/share/npf/blacklist.netset.new \
/usr/share/npf/blacklist.countries.new
exit 3
fi
# List of blocked cities:
# Moscow
/usr/pkg/bin/curl --connect-timeout 30 --fail --interface re0 --ipv4 --silent \
--retry 3 --retry-connrefused --retry-delay 5 --retry-max-time 90 \
--show-error --proxy http://127.0.0.1:20172 \
-o - "$GEOIP_CITIES_SOURCE" | \
gzip -d | \](https://media.bsd.cafe/bsdmmedia01/media_attachments/files/116/008/301/480/033/592/original/d5334833be4a13cd.png)
