Since you asked…

Service is fine, but GNU/Linux support needs improvement.

They just changed their TOS to forbid paying customers from seeking any form of judicial remedy, so you can guess the direction they’re headed.

Needless to say I won’t be renewing.

Thanks so much for hosting this instance.

Sorry for my ignorance, but would you mind clarifying which of your rules lemmygrad violated to get on your blocklist?

• caused problems under German law
• caused technical difficulties
• engaged in hostile activity
• engaged in malicious activity

Because tchncs understands that without free speech we have no hope of dealing with any of the problems that concern us.

Official statement:

Federation status

social.tchncs.de does not believe in censorship. Federation is a network service and suspension of federation with another server will only be implemented as a last resort where content from another server may cause problems under German law, or in cases of technical difficulties or hostile or malicious activity.

As many others have pointed out Arkenfox is a great way to harden Firefox that saves much of the effort of manually editing about:config

Because I didn’t see one already here’s a link to an install tutorial for Arkenfox in case it helps anyone to get started.

I’ve come to realize that semantics are vastly more important than many of us realize.

Saying GNU/Linux isn’t about giving credit to the GNU Project so much as it is about spreading the message that GNU represents. GNU represents a cooperative, collaborative philosophy diametrically opposed to the oppressive, exploitative capitalist ideals championed by today’s ruling class. By using “GNU” we remind users that the freedom we enjoy with our computing today was made possible, not by a kernel, but by the ideals of community and camaraderie embedded into our software by way of the GPL.

I don’t see anything antithetical about anyone wanting to share their work while at the same time wanting to be credited for it. On the contrary, most copyright regimes have specific carve outs for moral rights such as attribution. Even the most liberal of the creative commons license options includes an attribution requirement. That said, it isn’t just within your right to rename things you fork, it may be a requirement. For reference just think back to the controversy surrounding IceWeasel.