Subnostr

Yes, the TCP/IP stack and Tor/I2P analogy for L2s is a common way people conceptualize it.

I see you are from the privacy community. I listen to Surveillance Report every so often. My journey actually went from Bitcoin -> Bitcoin privacy world -> general foss/privacy community -> Monero

Yes you can directly onramp into Monero with something like LocalMonero or Bisq

https://localmonero.co/

https://bisq.network/

...Or swap from Bitcoin or another crypto using Trocador or Unstoppable Swap

https://trocador.app/en/

https://unstoppableswap.net/

Popular mobile wallets I recommend are: Monerujo, Cake Wallet, or Stack Wallet/Duo. Currently enjoying Stack/Duo

https://stackwallet.com/

https://www.monerujo.io/

https://cakewallet.com/

All open source and all good choices.

Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 2y ago

I have found Surveiliance Report quite a while ago actually - I think I am watching them for one and a half, maybe even more, years now? Basically, I got sick and tired of all this data collection and started to look into alternatives - and naturally, ended up there!

With all the things I learned there and software I found with the pointers given throughout the shownotes, I now run LineageOS 20, MicroG, Magisk, AdAway and a few other things. No more Google. And prior to that, I sold my iPhone and Apple watch and completely detached myself from the Apple ecosystem. That was a full 180° because I had been an Apple user since... 2008? XD I'd have to check, but I owned an iPod Nano 5th gen when I did my first iTunes purchase with Click&Buy. I was there very, very long. So giving up on that ecosystem was quite a cut.

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Saberhagen The Nameless 2y ago

I made a similar transition out of the Google ecosystem a couple years ago. Some inconvenience, but the sovereignty and privacy is worth it imo.

Lineage is great, but there is a more secure and private option out there you may want to look into called GrapheneOS that allows relocking of the bootloader, but you must have a Google Pixel phone as it has the only hardware that allows this.

https://grapheneos.org/

CalyxOS is another good option that allows relocking of the bootloader. The way I understand it though is it's not as secure as GrapheneOS.

Another general privacy list you might find useful:

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy