these comics are well known for their alt text

It's title text, or in web comic circles, hover text. The linked comic's alt is simply Lisp Cycles.

The separation is pedantic, but you can have dynamic websites without JS or with free ones. The argument is basically the server-side software only see the data you input, but client-side malware can extract information or do other nasty things you can't observe or prevent.

Pleroma and Akkoma FE can also display conversations as trees.

One thing I never understood about these glasses is that while allegedly blocking blue lights, they do not at all affect white balance. It's not like blue light is UV or IR, wakanda snake oil are they suppose to be?

I use mpv with yt-dlp.

Guess what, you can run Vim inside Emacs inside Vim inside Emacs now!

:q!<CR> is equivalent to ZQ

if I sent you a private message, is that viewable in plain text by not just the instance owner we’re both on

Yes.

other federated instances too?

Not by design, but instances can misbehave.

private messaging over AP

Private is misleading here: for messaging to be private, no third party should be able to read the messages. In practice, this usually requires end-to-end encryption.

I've been using disroot.org for a few years and it does what I expect. Recently I started a maddy.email server on a VPS and it's easier than I thought.

doesn’t collect my data and its [sic] secure as well

To quote cock.li,

How can I trust you?

You can't. Cock.li doesn't parse your E-mail to provide you with targeted ads, nor does cock.li read E-mail contents unless it's for a legal court order. However, it is 100% possible for me to read E-mail, and IMAP/SMTP doesn't provide user-side/client-side encryption, so you're just going to have to take my word for it. Any encryption implementation would still technically allow me to read E-mail, too. This was true for Lavabit as well -- while your E-mail was stored encrypted (only if you were a paid member, which most people forget), E-mail could still technically be intercepted while being received / sent (SMTP), or while being read by your mail client (IMAP). For privacy, we recommend encrypting your E-mails using PGP using a mail client add-on like Enigmail, or downloading your mail locally with POP and regularly deleting your mail from our server.

We use Maddy, which is pretty easy to set up.

isync can be used for archiving IMAP into maildir format, which is readable by all MUAs.

I use Liferea, which

• Discovers web feeds from web page's alternate link
• Embeds WebKit to render HTML in full
• Supports RSS comments
• Has configurable enclosure handler, so I can open YouTube in mpv