Additional question: wouldn’t it be cool to have a place where you can only get open source stuff? Obviously there needs to be more to it than this fact i presume but its a start.

In this case, you need to take my comment more literally.

AMD does a lot better than nvidia but amd still makes a lot of business decisions that are not consumer friendly. For example pricing their gpus a lot higher than they used to instead of more competitive to nvidia.

They do good but in opposition to open source, it is still a company and therefore not our „friend“. Open source in contrast is made by us, therefore undeniably more our friend.

It was a figure of speech, not meaning to dump on amd.

I cant top that but autism at 35 was fun…

Chiming in to repeat the same as before commenters:

Nextcloud is only an option if you are trying to selfhost something that google and apple are giving you for free in exchange for your data. Is it secure there? somewhat. Is it private? Well, not so much but they’re not breaking any laws as far as we know.

Now there‘s nextcloud. It is only as private as you make it and only as secure as you make it. If you host it on a sketchy server out in the open, you can bet you will be compromised (your data lands in someone elses hand) or you will lose it alltogether.

So, think of nextcloud as the privacy twin of icloud and google cloud for the tech literate. If you‘re not ready to self host it, pay for the host or the electricity or don‘t know how to harden it against attacks, please use a big tech option.

Thats equally dark and intriguing. Can you elaborate how you arrived at this conclusion? What serious crimes have you „believably“ heard of so far?

Fair enough! :)

Glad to see you get your ass handed to yourself by others for a change. Has been a couple of days. How have you been?

It probably depends on which client you use but it is kind of a forum tool like reddit (striking similarities).

As someone who has specific needs in terms of ui and also designs UIs, I can try showing the differences.

Lemmy and reddit have communities (or subreddits, forums if you will) - the content is rather long form. I don’t know of any limit. You have forum like headlines and body texts. You can put in images, videos, links but the vast majority of posts is text.

Mastodon and Twitter are more short form (character limit) and they work more with threads, like answering yourself or others and so on. You can do this on the redditlikes but you cant do it the other way round. They’re also called microblogging platforms as you‘re limited in the length of your „blog“.

Then there is Instagram and pixelfed (havent tried the latter yet) which are focused on pictures and videos, less on text. I believe you can post as long a text as you like but without a striking image, nobody will read it.

And last (maybe least) is facebook: a wild mix of all of the above. I don’t think there‘s a character limit, you can post text, video, audio, whatever. Most importantly imo is that you join groups as these open you up to other people than your friends. There you again find a wild mix of post types. Facebook is notorious for the low quality content that some people post, like childish pictures of badly animated birds which are supposed to convey some kind of message. Those are signs that the less tech literate and sometimes less culturally knowledgeable are on the platform (imho).

Just to finish this off: mastodon, lemmy and pixelfed are part of the fediverse. This means they are federated and are not (and can never) be controlled by a single entity. Also, they don’t use an algorithm. They do not check what you like and throw stuff at you it thinks you like. These algorithms are like heroin to a lot of people but for some reason they‘re not outlawed yet.

Have a good one.

It’s a fallacy. Why would I stop drinking alcohol, why would I stop smoking, why would I stop sunbathing without protection? Why would I leave the titanic? It is unsinkable. It works for you because you haven’t gotten to the bullet in the chamber yet.

The people here are trying to tell you that it’s not safe and that it will only get worse. And in opposition to your arguments, these facts are based on professional opinions and the known business practices of the companies these products are associated with.

I know you have your opinion but an opinion is not your personality. You can let go of it without ruining your life, again in opposition to keeping it and actually harming yourself, either financially or otherwise.

Why is it so hard to trust people who do this stuff for a living?

Always amazing how much people can know without actually „getting it“. Just use firefox. You don’t get anything for „winning“ on a technicality. Just leave it be.

Two things I‘m gonna fix for ya:

• All the people you know on twitter are also on mastodon. Double negatives are dumb.
• They came first for the communists… is your approach. Has been tried, don’t recommend.

Good luck

Thank you for this. It means a lot that some people understand. :)