I think Port87 may be what you are looking for.

“Sharing a different address with every app or service keeps them from tracking you. If a company leaks your email, you can easily change a label’s address and block the address that was leaked, preventing spammers from reaching you.”

I don’t think there are any trackers or data collection. The developer/owner of the company is on the threadiverse (@[email protected]) and their is a [email protected] community. Perhaps they can confirm. @[email protected]?

It has a free tier, but that tier only allows you to receive email, not send. Cheapest sending email account is $0.99/month.

You said you don’t care about the country, but for completeness, their contact info has a San Marcos, CA, USA address.

I use it and really like the “sub-emails” I can make for each type of email or per company.

If you are willing to provide the area/industry you are interested, we maybe able to direct you better. I don’t know of any (general or specific) communities off the top of my head, but there was just a post about getting ideas for new communities.

Assuming there is not already a community that fits your purposes, can you provide some more details on what you want to get out of community? “Help and networking” is a bit vague to work with.

Additionally, would you be interested in starting and modding such a community? No pressure/expectation either way, just gathering potentially useful information.

Hopefully, but it may just be a temporary logistics issue, with Ukraine’s mid range campaign and their strikes on the WildBerries warehouses.

Further updates on the situation in [email protected]:

There was a post a maybe 9 hours ago asking for clarification on why you were banned (“[Meta] Why was supersquirrel temp banned?”), but that has since been deleted (Mod Log: “Removed Post [Meta] Why was supersquirrel temp banned? reason: Out of scope”).

A moderator ([email protected]) put up a locked post 3 hours ago saying essentially not to question the mods.

Yeah, it definitely feels, to me, like the current world/society is built to be competitive rather than cooperative :(

I would suggest a few things. First, be genuinely open minded to the discussion/topic (as in your opinion can change with a good enough argument.

Second, I would suggest using “feeling” language as much as possible. Examples are: “I feel like that will cause an issue with…”, “my understanding is…”, “my thoughts are…”, “from what I’ve seen/read the setup is …”, etc. From my perspective, feeling language lowers the “absoluteness” of statements and makes conversions easier by changing them from arguing absolute truths, to discussing lived experiences.

Third would be to reframe the discussion/argument from “you vs them” to the two of you vs a problem/issue and you both are working together to find the answer. This somewhat goes with being open minded.

Fourth, I don’t think works too well in online discussions, but in person I find starting from a base situation and asking the other person their thoughts on it, and adding your own, works well. So, start with a base situation and then adding a little complexity each time you both agree on the outcome and reasoning. Once you’ve found your divergence point you can start having your discussion about the pros/cons of different approaches/solutions to that specific situation.

My understanding, using the federation-email analogy, defederation is like yahoo mail and gmail users not being able to send and receive emails from each other. In this case lemmy.world and lemmy.ml can’t see each others users/communities/posts/comments/votes (someone can correct me if I’m mistaken about any part).

[email protected] just made a post about instance defederations. TL:DR of the post is only 3 instances/servers have any significant defederation (>5%). 2 “tankie” instances (lemmygrad.ml [67%] and hexbear.net [64%]) and the porn instance (fedinsfw.app [13%]).

No worries :)

• Not sure we have a Hobbydrama, but it’s also not my interest, so I could have blocked it.
• Cursedcrochet looks fun. We have an active knitting community, but probably not enough activity/users for a specific “cursedcrochet” community at this point. Also have a semi-active leatherwork community, if that’s of interest.
• Wunkus seems great. I think the closest match we may have would be Scrungy Cats, but there could be communities I don’t know about.
• Also, in a different comment someone mentioned the solarpunk communities (basically anything on the slrpnk.net instance), I’m a big fan of those, and think they’re worth checking out.

The threadiverse (roughly the reddit-like part of the fediverse) is pretty small (~43k MAU), so if something doesn’t exist and you want it to, your probably going to have to start and build it yourself.

I was kind of off-put by that initially, but I kind of like it now. It’s kind of like building your own little space and people can come check it out and see what you’ve been building and contribute if they feel like it. I created fedilytics (Fediverse-Analytics) a couple months ago because I was curious how the fediverse was doing. It’s not particularly active with other people (got first non-me post yesterday!), but I mostly built it for myself and enjoy anytime someone stops in to talk in the comments.

If you do decide to make a community in the future, I’d suggest making the post in the community and then cross-posting it, to a larger relevant community, to increase traffic to your post (as many people just stick to their subscribed feed).

If you provide some of your interests/hobbies, we can probably be more helpful.

That being said, I think these are a few active and interesting communities:

• Superb Owl
• Linux Phones
• Gardening

Regarding places to avoid, I don’t think anyplace needs to be avoided, per say. Politics can be problematic, if you go into those posts.

There’s no real algorithm, so you need to curate your own feed. In general, I’d suggest, if you see a community that could interest you, just subscribe. You can always unsubscribe later (if it turns out not to be what you want), but getting a denser “good stuff” home feed is beneficial.

By the same token, I’d suggest blocking communities you have zero interest in (helps filtering, so you come across more content you are interested in when browsing “All”). If you run into a problematic user, report (if they have done something reportable), block, and move on.

If 2 communities are posting the same content and you get tired of seeing double, I’d suggest removing the community from the bigger or flagship instance (ex. Lemmy.ml, Lemmy.world, Piefed.Social).

This would have the effect of distributing the communities across the threadiverse rather than having them bunch up on a few. A problem with bunching can be if an instance goes down, they take their users/communities with them. Most of the medium/large instances in the threadiverse are stable, but it has happened in the past (Lemm.ee).

My understanding is this should be much less of a problem in the future, they are working on making user profiles and communities transferable between instances/servers.

Note: there is an active autism community, if that’s of interest to you.

Apparently I like War, Mystery, and Comedy. List:

• Andor: Is great, even if you aren’t a Star Wars fan. Each 3 episode arc is better than the last. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they made a Season 2 and Season 2 is better. You can use Rogue One as a cap to the series.

• Veronica Mars: watched all of it for the first time this year. It holds up 20+ years later.

• Ted Lasso: Comedy about a college American Football coach coaching English Football/soccer.

• The Good Place: Strangely a philosophy heavy comedy. It slows in places, but is absolutely worth watching.

• Schmitt’s Creek: Comedy about unlikeable rich people becoming poor. It takes a bit to start, but each season is better than the last and nails the landing.

Possibles:

• Altered Carbon (Season 1): Great murder mystery set in a cyberpunk, dystopian future.

• Shogun: Medieval Japan samurai “game of thrones”-esk show. Only planned as 1 season, but did so well they are making a Season 2.

• Band of Brothers: War show about American rangers in WW2.

Do you think “Kingston” is a sockpuppet of theirs?

I really enjoyed it when it was airing. I don’t know if I’d enjoy a rewatch today, because the writing is rough in several places.

I feel its kind of similar to agents of shield where they outlived their original plan and had to adapt and come up with new plot arcs (and I think it shows, in both series). Though, I think their forced adaptions created some of the best new and interesting sci-fi concept explorations to come to TV for a while.

I’m also a sucker for “then it got worse” type shows, where the characters are struggling and doing their best to improve their situation, but every step forward is followed by being pushed a couple steps back through no fault of their own.

All that being said, I like S2 of The 100 best. S1 of the show is probably up there, starting after

. I think once that happens, its clear this is not a typical CW show.

If there’s already a community, it might be worth posting there and then crossposting here to build up that community.

My understanding of the political landscape of specific instances is:

• Neo-liberal: Lemmy.world, Piefed.social (maybe)
• Marx-Leninist (ML): Lemmy.ml, Lemmygrad.ml, hexbear.net
• Anarchist: Lemmy.dbzer0.com, quokk.au, anarchist.nexus

Everything else is pretty unaligned. However, ~50% of users are on those instances.

Upvoted, because I think it’s unknown, so unpopular. Though it sound like a good idea to me.

I’m curious to hear any drawbacks others find.

Worthwhile post, wrong community.

I may have misunderstood your comment.

If you’re asking what the downsides of not using “feeling” language is, from my perspective, when a comment is just stated, the statement comes across as a statement of fact, rather than someone’s understanding.

Someone’s understanding of something is not always fact and by lowering the statement from a ‘fact’ to an ‘understanding’ it lowers the temperature when information counter to someone’s understanding is presented.

My experience, is that it also helps start a dialogue. Example:

Person 1: “My understanding is that the government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “I hadn’t heard that. My understanding is that homes are heated with building heaters. Can you provide me with a source to look more into the lasers you described?”

Versus: Person 1: “The government heats homes with space lasers.” Person 2: “You’re wrong. Homes are heated with internal heaters. Where did you hear that?”

From my perspective, the first exchange is more amicable and the second more contentious and more likely to lead to insults rather than a constructive conversation.

Edit: spelling.

Nothing. They’re a suggestion. I’ll work on restating the list to better reflect that. Appreciate the feedback.

Probably should be reworded as a suggestion rather than a rule.

Had another thought. If you could remote into their server could they not remote into your server?

I’m thinking this could be a good gateway trial option for clients. You set up services on your server and give them limited time access to the server to use the FOSS software. If they want, after the trial they can transfer their data. You then wipe the server to ensure their data is erased.

Also, an option I’m not sure you’d be excited about. You host everything for them and offer the service of using your server for their business needs (rather than just a trial). May be less headache in the long run (less overall hardware means less overall issues, presumably).

For the running of software on your server, I believe there are companies that do that already for the fediverse instances. May be worth looking at and seeing what they offer and for what price.