Moving from YouTube Music to Spotify?
Spotify has been fucking over artists for years
Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it’s just that it’s not American.
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.
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.
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.
Who is boycotting signal?
People have been pushing Matrix and Element over Signal.
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.
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.
People are so dumb for still recommending bluesky it’s just leaving one peice of shit for another that will definitely turn into a peice of shit like all proprietary software does
Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don’t want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.
I’m not saying that Mastodon can’t survive without an algorithm but they don’t make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It’s all organic discovery and that’s very 00’s ish.
But, all the liberals are there now, so it must be great! /s
dissatisfied with this formerly-popular social media platform that experienced a hostile fascist takeover and enshittification? Join us on this currently-popular social media platform that will undergo the same event in seven years! Because how are we supposed to make profits by learning from our mistakes?
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
Windows, MacOS -> Linux
What program or blueprint are people using for this? Looks really nice, clean and simple
Fastmail is Australia based. Don’t they have some of the worst laws regarding government backdoors?
Yes we do.
We even have laws that say we can’t say we received a request on an individual level not a company level which means we aren’t suppose to tell our lawyers.
Mastadon
recommending reddit
am I being too grumpy?
It doesn’t recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.
Yeah, only to say “follow me on reddit” at the end.
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.
I’ve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.
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.
Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?
Once proton integrates an office suite I’ll be all set. (It’s in the road map. When? Who knows?)
Signal is too pedestrian. Without decentralization, your chat isn’t private enough as you don’t control the meta or the servers.
And what’s just as important - not as resilient.
There are many ways to make things resilient. Centralizing isn’t one of them.
Why no Libby. At least for the US.
For email, have a look at www.posteo.de.
Wait…what…!!! There’s paid browser out there ???
I don’t think it’s a paid browser (there are a few of those though) it’s a paid search engine.
Orion Browser is paid.
What’s wrong with Safari?
Closed-source and not available on most people’s computers.
- Bluesky now owned by crypto-grifters
- “I prefer to meet people where they are” says reasonable-sounding white dude holding court at a table in the back of a Nazi Bar. | It’s Bluesky. The Nazi Bar[1] is Bluesky.
r/TalesFromYourServer: Kicking a Nazi out as soon as they walk in ↩︎
Yeah it makes no sense to me how dumb people can be. Like
“Yeah let’s move away from one proprietary social media that got enshitified to another proprietary social media that will definitely enshitify”
I don’t know how many times people have to learn the exact same lesson before they finally figure it out but I think there’s a fucking quote about that.
If it hasn’t already, moving from corporate owner to corporate owner will become some sort of ritual, a modern form of tradition.
My brother in law …moved from Apple to Google cause he decided he hated Apple.
Spotify is pretty fucking bad too. They don’t get a pass for not being Google.
