I think Lemmy (or the Fediverse in a broader sense) really benefits from everyone in it to just output as much as possible. More interaction, more content, more people coming for that content. If somebody does not like what you have to say they can just block you (or if it’s really hateful be banned)

The first one is fine but it always seems like it shows a huge amount of packages, just not the one I’m looking for, also I don’t find nixos options on there. For that like using mynixos. I really like being able to click on a parent options and see all of it’s children (They also show some home-manager stuff). And the options page for home-manager is a horrible user experience. For that I usually use extranix.com. Thanks though.

Sure if it’s in the Wiki the documentation is not too bad. But just looking for the documention of the lib functions via DuckDuckGo is somehow really hard. And if it’s not in the Wiki or you want the home-manager module, I’ll basically default to first looking at the options on 3rd party websites and then reading the source code for them. (Also the NixOS wiki is obviously not as comprehensive / big as the Arch Wiki)

Ah ok now I get what you mean. Hashing for phone numbers is ineffective so it’s a two way lookup. Is the population using Signal small enough that this doesn’t just equate to surveiling everybody?

The question is: What privacy do I loose by signing up to Signal with a phone number instead of hypothetically a username.

If you are being monitored, they know your phone number. With that they know you are using Signal, but nothing more. Messaging through Signal is safe.

If you are not being monitored, nobody knows you are using Signal. Messaging through Signal is safe

I still don’t get it. What is bad about signing up with your phone number? All readable Info that governments can force out of Signal is. “Yep this guy uses Signal, signed up last year” so nothing is lost (except if they use that as a sign you are a terrorist, but then they just wanted to monitor you anyway in the first place)