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Pointing people to reddit, as if that’s an alternative. When a VPN provider makes such bad choices it’s tempting to imagine that the decision was influenced by somebody who wants to secretly get the message out that the company is no longer to be trusted, because it’s hard to see any other logic in it.

The centralized social media have demonstrated again and again that content moderation at scale can never work well the way they do it. They are a menace to society. The problem isn’t that Elon Musk is the wrong person to decide how a billion people should be allowed to talk to each other and which of their voices should be amplified, it’s that nobody should ever have that power.

A diverse network of smaller instances where each is free to take its own approach is the future of social media, if it has a future.

Firefox (with good settings, or Librewolf) + uBlock Origin + Decentraleyes + NoScript (with default permissions removed) is probably > 80%.

Okay Google, if you can guess my age accurately to within a decade based on my youtube viewing history and whatever other data you can get, I will give you a cookie.

I like blobcats

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I also don’t want to be running an antique OS… Just a debloated one.

This is not a Windows forum, so I feel justified in pointing out that in that case you should probably avoid Microsoft products entirely.

(momentary confusion as I wonder why I’d want to switch from the X Window System to Mastodon)

There are a few specific people on fedi who do give me hope.

So the normal “I just want to watch netflix” price has gone from $8 to $18. A 125% increase.

the way that it should be

From each according to his wealth, to each according to his payment.

Today’s top news story: Imminent Death of Fediverse Predicted

Has anyone checked for correlation between having a taste for capsaicin and not chewing your food thoroughly?

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Quick, somebody give that man $350000

Proton has the better encrypted email service. It follows the standard and is interoperable with others.

Proton has the better VPN service if you care about port forwarding, which Mullvad discontinued.

But nothing beats Mullvad for looking trustworthy, and it was reliable enough when I was on it.

It’s centralized, it doesn’t officially allow 3rd-party clients, it requires a phone number, and the desktop app kinda sucks. I use it anyway, but it could be better.

You didn’t need to be “left leaning” to vote for Harris. Just, you know, not insane.

Yeah! Hit him! Right in that soft boomer belly! [munches popcorn]

Akkoma and probably others like Misskey I assume do have follower-only posts and they do get used by some people who like to communicate with a small group and otherwise keep things private.