• polyamorypagan69@lemm.eeEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Finally got rid if Reddit now more on blue sky and the Yesterday got rid if Wayz (google owned) and doing Organic Maps instead. Not seeing as much advertising is healing and focusing.

  • michel@lemmy.ml
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    2 days ago

    I mostly agree with the list, but given Spotify platforms Joe Rogan and pays artists less than Apple Music, for music streaming I went the other way.

    Looking forward to Bandwagon catching on, and help recording artists cut the middle men out

  • Onlykievv @lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I think that in browsers it would be better than at least they added to Librewolf, it is the best browser based in Firefox

  • WarlordSdocy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Honestly out of all those switches email is the one I’ve always struggled with. I feel like that one would take a ton of effort to switch over my accounts on various things to a new email. If anyone has any advice or ways to make that easier I’d love that as otherwise I’m still stuck with Gmail.

    • outbakes9510@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      My main suggestion is to start, and to start earlier rather than later. If you have an email account you don’t like, every time you express that it’s associated with you means you’ll have to make one more update in order to completely switch.

      I decided to switch around Black Friday when there was a discount for a paid subscription, and then to try to avoid using my old email account unless I saw a website reference it (like if I had to log in or specifically check for an email).

      I feel a lot more comfortable using email than I used to (although I still try to avoid using it), so switching has improved my quality of life overall.

  • LavaPlanet@lemm.ee
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    3 days ago

    What’s the best email to use? Anyone have suggestions? usability? I haven’t changed because I just end up with decision overload / paralysis.

    • Luca@feddit.it
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      3 days ago

      IMO the best choices are Tuta Mail or Proton Mail. Proton has the best UI and UX but is a bit controversial due to its CEO. I personally use Proton because the UI is that much better.

      • Wrrzag@lemmy.ml
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        2 days ago

        But you have to use their app, right? You can’t just use thunderbird or whatever

    • Gazumi@mstdn.social
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      3 days ago

      @LavaPlanet @LEONARDE11 I switched a few times. With Tutanota. It’s good and does what I need. I like it so much have gone from the free plan to the paid plan. My advice is if you’re not sure, just switch.

  • oakward@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Signal is centralised and may just be the next WhatsApp. Does anyone have experience with matrix? Could it be a decent alternative to WhatsApp or signal?

  • Termight@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    The presentation of this information feels… curated. It’s difficult to dismiss the possibility that it’s been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail’s previous Mastodon activity – a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving – lends a certain cynicism to the matter.

    • LEONARD!@lemmy.worldOP
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      3 days ago

      Genuinely not my post. I just shared it from my saved images on my phone. I really don’t like the idea of being exploited by tech companies with no regard for their users.

    • LavaPlanet@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it’s just that it’s not American.

    • Jentu@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Bandcamp might have been bought out by Epic Games, but the platform has given me magnitudes more money for my music than every other streaming platform combined.

      • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
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        2 days ago

        For what it’s worth, Epic Games sold Bandcamp to Songtradr in 2023. It’s still an American company, and probably isn’t meaningfully better than Epic, but at least they haven’t totally tanked the platform yet either.

      • Tangentism@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        Any artist I hear online that I like their music, if they dont have a BC page, I suggest they sort one out. What I like about them is that I can stream peoples music via the app but also download it so I actually ‘own’ the music. I also like buying physical releases from artists through there.

        I’ve not sold music through there so I’m not au fait with their terms but I know its not as terrible as all the streaming sites.

    • recall519@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      It’s non-US. Honestly, I’m not really on the whole non-US bandwagon. It feels kind of xenophobic and a large blast radius. Even for privacy, non-US isn’t even enough, it needs to be in specific countries.

      • phlegmy@sh.itjust.works
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        3 days ago

        Distrusting services from a country due to their government is not xenophobia.
        It’s the same as avoiding chinese services because of their national policies.

        I’d still happily welcome american and chinese people into my country.

        Non-US is a start for now though, because they currently have the most control over the internet.
        Plus the US government is currently exceptionally hostile to those who aren’t US citizens, so I have little reason to trust that they won’t abuse me or my data.

      • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        3 days ago

        U.S. citizen here

        The administration is putting tendrils into things, heading toward fascism.

        US companies are being forced to bend the knee. Government agencies are sucking up information to be used against people the future or sold at an alarming rate.

        If you can find a one to one alternative to a US-based service it’s a really good time to head that way. I know I am.

        • recall519@lemm.eeEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Maybe not that much more than it already was, though. And Lemmy is going so far to boycott Signal which has been the golden standard for privacy up to this point. While many European countries are passing anti-encryption policies, we are boycotting US without any strong arguments.

              • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                2 days ago

                I’ve seen as more distrust over matrix/new vector (exposing ID without content) as I have Signal. There’s stink around it being an Israeli government run company in a trenchcoat.

                I think most of it is as baseless as anything said about signal, but at least they have real incidents that make matrix questionable.

        • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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          3 days ago

          I am doing just that. I indeed use Youtube Music for discovering and downloading new tracks, but alos yt-dlp every video I like. Because I am afraid Youtube might at some point be taken away, like loginwalled.

            • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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              3 days ago

              That is exactly what I do. A client on the phone for discovery on the go, later yt-dlp on the laptop and proper tagging.

                • EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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                  2 days ago

                  I would never be able to afford Apple tech even if I somehow didn’t mind using a phone I cannot install arbitrary apps on. So yeah, no idea. I use RiMusic on my Android, but the downloads happen on the laptop with yt-dlp.

  • myrmidex@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    Replacing Google Drive is the hardest for me. I’m not a fan of the nextcloud bloat, Seafile is hard to setup. Didn’t expect this to be the largest struggle of the whole process.

      • myrmidex@slrpnk.net
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        3 days ago

        Nice suggestion!! I was fully on board until I realized it’s not a self-hosted application :D I have some resources available on a server so I want to look in that direction for a possible solution.

        • xigoi@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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          3 days ago

          Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?

          • myrmidex@slrpnk.netEnglish
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            2 days ago

            No I haven’t. I ran it a long long time ago, haven’t kept up with the project since nextCloud. Worth a look, thanks!

    • Silent John@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      4 days ago

      Once proton integrates an office suite I’ll be all set. (It’s in the road map. When? Who knows?)

  • Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    4 days ago

    i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who’s actually been posting there for over 10 years 🤔

    if you check their account you’ll see they’ve actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.

    but, they’re still suggesting lots of garbage.

    see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism

    • orange_squeezer@lemm.ee
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      2 days ago

      Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I’d never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia “only” shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn’t even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.

      No idea what that walnut is smoking.

    • monarch@lemm.eeEnglish
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      4 days ago

      I don’t think I have ever seen a worse sourced Wikipedia section. I agree with the general sentiment but holy shit I’m suprised that whole section hasn’t just been thrown out.

      Edit: checked the talk page apparently it was one of the students edited ones which explains why it reads like an essay I rushed out the night before the due date.