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submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Hi !

I'm a privacy enthousiast. I have pihole running at home, I use it as my DNS resolver, and I use wireguard on my phone to connect home and use pihole on it. Never been happier. No Facebook, no Instagram, no social media at all.

Thing is, I'm making big changes in my life. I'm moving from Paris to the countryside and I need, I badly need to advertise my services as a freelancer (sound engineer and wedding photographer).

Of course, I'm in the process of building my website (almost there), but I am nothing if I don't post on Instagram and Facebook (in particular for my photo work). I've seen what other successful wedding photographers do with social media, and I need to do something alike.

I deeply despise meta, but I'll have to make a sacrifice at some point.

I've already found something like hootsuite to schedule my posts without having to login into fb or insta, but I'll have to login at some point for the interactions. So I'll install some secure OS on an old phone I'll use only for that purpose, but damn, I already feel dirty.

How would you feel about this ? What would be your approach ? For those of you that are in a similar situation, what's your method ?

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I use a PortableApps installation to keep my work separated. You could run it in a virtual machine too.

As far as the social media platforms go though, I just use the first party sites for scheduling posts. I have to give them a minimum amount of information to have accounts on them, so I don't see the point in giving that information to someone else too.

I've got a browser, email client, and FTP client, and they're all completely separate from everything else on my computer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sorry for my ignorance, but can you tell me more about PortableApps ? Is it this https://portableapps.com/ ?

I f I understand, this is some kind of platform that allows me to use, well, portable apps ?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In case they mean it for the web browser, it can be done in a safer way. Firefox supports having multiple browser profiles, which means different settings, addons, history, everything.

One way to create profiles and to open them is through the about:profiles page.

An other is to create separate desktop icons for these profiles, where the profile selection happens in parameters, and you refer to them by their name. The desktop icon would look like this: "....../firefox.exe" -no-remote -P "insert profile name here".
You can also have a desktop icon that just opens a small profile manager window, where you can select one from the list: "......./firefox.exe -no-remote -P", but be aware that unless you untick the box, this one automatically changes the default profile to the one you started with it.
The -no-remote is so that you can run them at the same time as other profiles, like your main one. You shouldn't have this for your main firefox profile. Details, because it has some consequences (nothing major, though).

Both ways should work on windows and linux.

If you need help with the desktop icons, let me know!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I will need to have some spare time to have a look at this (and understand it). I might hyu in the near future ;)

Thanks for the info :)

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