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Star OP ,

Yeah, I made this post after reading that article. There is clearly a problem with how domains and their renewals are managed. I’m not sure what a solution would look like, though.

Star ,

I’m sorry if I sound naive but what’s wrong with using a phone?

I thought people use traditional music players like iPod and Tangara only because of their retro feel, is there something else to it?

Star ,

They aren’t E2EE by default. You have to enable it manually.

Star ,

They also run bookwyrm.world! A fediverse alternative of Goodreads.

Star OP ,

The clip is from a documentary called “A President, Europe and War” and it is not fake AFAIK.

Star OP ,

Their generous offering of 10gigabytes of free storage along with a private, ad-free, end-to-end encrypted experience always sounded too good to be true. There was no way they could sustain that business model long term. At least they’re giving users enough time to jump ship and have not sold their data to Notion (judging by their twitter replies).

Star ,

they don’t “plant trees” but rather contribute very little amounts to existing programmes

Ofcourse they don’t plant trees themselves, it’s a search engine with a small team. They donate their entire profit which averages upwards of a million euros every month, to local tree planting initiatives across the world and that isn’t a ‘little’ number at all.

“Every search plants a tree” is a lie. It’s not every search, but rather every couple clicks on an ad

I agree, they were ‘a bit’ misleading with that in the past. Although they did state in their tree counter earlier and somewhere in their website/blog that it was roughly 45 searches (in Germany, depends on region) which raised enough money to plant a tree. They’ve since removed most, if not all of the misinformation.

They use Bing results making them useless

Since when does using Bing results make a search engine a ‘scam’? DuckDuckGo also uses Bing results, would you call that a scam as well? Ecosia uses Bing search results because it’s close to impossible to make an independent search engine which gives satisfactory results without the resources of a tech giant.

Star OP ,

It’s so ridiculous when corporations steal everyone’s work for their own profit, no one bats an eye but when a group of individuals do the same to make education and knowledge free for everyone it’s somehow illegal, unethical, immoral and what not.

Star ,

Matthias Ott (@matthiasott)! I personally find his OwnYourWeb blog/newsletter really helpful as a newbie (comparatively) looking to setup my own webpage and blog.

Star ,

You only see posts from people you follow, you can just unfollow (or mute/block) whoever you don’t like to see on your timeline. If you’re scrolling the trending/explore page then maybe you should try switching servers or just stick to the home feed which has toots only from the accounts you follow.

Star ,

Personally, I initially started with following accounts of some companies or softwares that I use or am passionate about like The Fedora Project, The Tor Project, Bitwarden, Blender, Proton, some game engines (and their creators) etc. You can usually find their mastodon handles on their website and/or somewhere on their twitter profiles.

After that I branched out from there gradually, following people as I found them in discussions, the explore page and through some 3rd party discovery tools as well like “Followgraph for Mastodon” which looks up all the people you follow on Mastodon and then the people they follow then it sorts them by the number of mutuals.

Star ,

@Frellwit is right, the following FAQ is from the uBO’s YouTube Mega Thread on reddit.

How often should I manually update filter lists? Can I somehow automate this?

YouTube filters are in a list named uBlock filters - Quick fixes. The list updates every 12 hours. It’s the only list you might need to update - only if this page says it’s fixed, but you’re getting the message.

If you’re not getting detected. Don’t update. Current estimated cost for just ONE of uBO’s CDNs: HERE. This is with other lists updating every few days. uBO’s not a company, it’s a volunteer project using free services, which have limits that we cannot cross.

Star ,

Surprised to see LinkedIn’s 930 million MAU! I might have heard someone mention it irl like 2 times my whole life? But maybe that’s cuz I’m not in the job market yet.

Star ,

Yup, it says 390 million for Twitter, you might have mixed it up with LinkedIn’s 930 million.

Star ,

Oh wow, I didn’t know it’s used for research and policy discussions as well! That’s pretty neat.

Star ,

AA is just a discovery, curatorial platform.

It isn’t just a discovery/search platform anymore. Source

Star ,

predecessor

I think you meant successor.

Star ,

English isn’t my first language

It isn’t mine either, we’re all learning :)

Star OP ,

How is it not? It’s IT, Information Technology

Star ,

If you’re using Bing anyways, consider switching to Ecosia, it’s a non-profit search engine, they pull their search results from Bing and plant trees across the globe with their profits.

It might not be for extremely privacy conscious people because they do send some of your data (obfuscated IP addresses, user agent string etc.) to Microsoft because they use Bing but it’s still orders of magnitude better than using Bing directly.

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