Thank you, I downloaded it

Weird, I’m telling ya I’ve had MANY comments disappear

I’ve had many comments (and I know a few others have too) quietly deleted for talking about the downsides of Linux, so mild censorship is definitely a thing depending on where you visit. But “shadow banning”, if I’m not mistaken, is kinda nonexistent on a platform like this

Thank you for asking, I’ve been thinking about this lately. Unfortunately, I don’t have an answer for you

That’s my current setup, but Signal gets no use because I can’t convince anyone to switch

I haven’t installed it yet, but that sounds exactly like what I had in mind. Is it limited by which companies have adopted it?

Damn, that’s a good point. I have no technical coding experience or knowledge (so no one should take what I’m about to say seriously), but I was picturing a lot of scripting pulling information across the web from selected vendors. Maybe that could prevent something like that? Or maybe I’m just making myself sound naive and stupid?

Right! I was thinking that with an infinitely scaling model without a single point of failure

I apologize for not being more specific, I’m not interested in a centralized delivery system. I just want vendors to have their inventories posted online (as usual), but for them to be aggregated by category and filterable in one location without depending on a dystopian tech company. MAYBE have a frontend to appear as though everything is centralized, but I would be indifferent

Sound like you should join the dev team as an idea person, I support you

You can practically bet on it. Everything related to decentralization is being incentivized to push new releases. Personally, I couldn’t be happier about it.