Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
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Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids.
CEO/founder @FedicaHQ@m.fedica.com,
Cofounder of @rentcompass,
Builder of popular mobile apps,
Traveler, pentalingual.
Also building tools for Mastodon
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 14, 2026
@julian
I think both
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 11, 2026
@hypolite @riley@toot.cat
A computer is not a human, but tools can replace humans to do certain job if not better.
If you don't like dishwashers, laundry machines, sewing machines, tractors and diggers then by all means hire someone to do it, but most of us find it more effective to use machines instead
I would rather focus my time on building more complex things than waste it on doing less complex jobs that a machine (or AI) can easily do in less time
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 11, 2026
@riley@toot.cat I am sorry, this is not correct analogy
The bot not giving you correct information 100% of the time doesn't make them useless
A Search engine doesn't give you the correct answer all the time.
Chatbots are incredibly helpful. Don't take the answer as 100% correct, review and research accuracy after you get the answer but they save you immense amount of time from searching yourself
Think of them as hiring a jr employee or assistant. They are helpful but you must review their work
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 06, 2026
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 04, 2026
@cripamphibie@mastodon.online @dansup@mastodon.social
When assemblers arrived it was a big step forward, then compilers and interpreters made our lives even easier.
Back in the day we had to debug the compiler output because it wasn't perfect. Many were also skeptical about compilers and performance of compiled code. Years later it became the most common way to code
I think prompt engineering is not very much different, just has a lower barrier to entry, and we are still baby steps now
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 04, 2026
@cripamphibie@mastodon.online @dansup@mastodon.social
How many of those who "can write own code" actually know machine code or even assembly language.
And do you think less of them if they can't do that?
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Mar 02, 2026
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz to be honest, these are not features of federation, and not all federated platforms provide them
Portability exists on Bluesky but not here for example( you can only port your graph). Bluesky decentralization is great for PDS but limited to on the appview side
Threads is "federated" but good luck moving lol
Maybe we are just promising something that's not fully baked :-)
But yeah in a sense, talk about the benefits - a language they understand - and not how it's done
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 27, 2026
@evan@cosocial.ca I also look forward to the workshop, and I am happy to know that you are attending!
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
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Feb 25, 2026
@mike@thecanadian.social @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @ricci@discuss.systems
Clunky is putting it lightly because you CANNOT switch instance, you delete your account and start a new one.
You can transfer your social graph but lose everything else (posts, private messages, likes bookmarks, everything is lost).
I would not call this switching nor changing user name, that's a social graph copy to a new account
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 24, 2026
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 24, 2026
@Edent@mastodon.social @blu3id@mastodon.social
ugh, spam is an industry
I remember years ago a group of users used our service to coordinate twitter attacks by creating massive threads (at the time, we were the only service that lets you schedule threads), dozens of accounts creating 100+ post threads of , so it's thousands of spam tweets/second
The result? We limited threads to only 10 posts in the free plan and the service sucked for all free users...
Few rotten applies just had to ruin it for everyone else
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 24, 2026
@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online @quillmatiq@mastodon.social @mike@thecanadian.social @mmasnick@mastodon.social @ricci@discuss.systems
If we want to talk about decentralization, try to switch your account here to another instance and see what happens?
Forget that, try to change your user name and see what happens.
These are basic things that work very well on ATmosphere, things that I believe are core to decentralization which you cannot do
Every protocol has it's faults, let's not put down the ones we don't understand
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 23, 2026
@filmfreakmafia@mastodon.social @indiewire@mastodon.social
She is great in that show, the show itself is amazing
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
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Feb 23, 2026
@Edent@mastodon.social terrible people ruin it for everyone!
My suggestion is to reduce authentication options, and use social stats to determine if the user needs moderation or not. also give different weights to different platforms
i.e. if they connected LinkedIn and have > 100 followers then no moderation, X then 200, Github 10 contributions and must be over a period etc
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 19, 2026
@dansup@mastodon.social there is also Eurosky and gander social (still in the works though)
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 18, 2026
@pixelfed@mastodon.social I look forward to that release 😉
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 18, 2026
I also find it funny that Amazonbot is one of the biggest offenders, then AWS charges you extra fees for "extra" bandwidth and http requests lol
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@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 18, 2026
@chpietsch@fedifreu.de @M_E_ST@mastodon.social @reset_org@mastodon.social
Hi there,
The domain is registered at NameCheap and is owned by us, our server is hosted on Microsoft Azure, which is in the USA
We are a Canadian company
Have a great day
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 17, 2026
@strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz I think each of us lives in a bubble, usually of like minded people
I deal with millions of social media people, *most* of them don't care about federation, they are not technical.
If you explain it's an open platform, sure, but don't try to explain federation to non-techies, you lost them already when you said federation.
Talk about portability, openness etc, federation is not something they care about
BTW I know many techies most of them still don't have federated socials
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@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Feb 16, 2026
@dansup@mastodon.social
Simple is good so it doesn't get unrecognizable when scaled down in small UI, also needs to look fine on dark/light modes (or have two versions)
Although the current logo is busy, it does stand out when you put it next to other platforms
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@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
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Feb 06, 2026
@FastCompany@flipboard.com @fast-co-leadership-FastCompany
@tchambers@indieweb.social
It is exhausting how most organizations still enforce these outdated rules
For us, we enforce length and tell the user how terrible their password is as they type it instead of asking them to create a weak one based on useless rules!
Irony is, a "security reporter" from a famous online outlet once complained that our system "allows easy to guess passwords" because it doesn't have these archaic rules
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@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
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Feb 06, 2026
@FastCompany@flipboard.com @fast-co-leadership-FastCompany
@tchambers@indieweb.social
It is exhausting how most organizations still enforce these outdated rules
For us, we enforce length and tell the user how terrible their password is as they type it instead of asking them to create a weak one based on useless rules!
Irony is, a "security reporter" from a famous online outlet once complained that our system "allows easy to guess passwords" because it doesn't have these archaic rules
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@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Jan 28, 2026
@pluralistic@mamot.fr
You should tell them it's a German word lol
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Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
m.fedica.com
Samir Al-Battran
@samir@m.fedica.com
Entrepreneur and engineer. Father to 3 amazing kids. CEO/founder @ FedicaHQ , Cofounder of @rentcompass, Builder of popular mobile apps, Traveler, pentalingual. Also building tools for Mastodon
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Jan 25, 2026
@FediThing shortwave can be jammed
I grew up in a dictatorship and we had no access to outside news, including shortwave
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