Welcome Reddit refugees, glad to have some fresh faces 'round these parts.
The best 3topping in existence, hands down.
My theory on why people don't like pineapple on pizza is that most of them pair it with sweet ham, so they lose the full effect of the spicy/sweet/salty combo. Pineapple on pizza is amazing, hawaiian pizza is an abberant form that should be removed off menus everywhere and replaced with the true god-king: The PPJ.
Mmhmm, someone doesn't know Stella Barey's off cam exploits..
No, only American things exist, you see. Ironic.
But it creates negative user sentiment, which will make it easier to move people, or even make people just less excited to use the platform in the long term.
To add, it's not nothing that lemmy and kbin have grown as much as they have. This has introduced many to the concept of the fediverse at all, or at least to those two names, and they're more likely to switch after they've heard about it a couple times, or after it grows a bit more, or once reddit pisses them off even by just some toxic mod doing dumb shit and making them say "fuck this site, I'm going to that alternative I heard about."
I guess what I'm getting at is this is effective marketing even if we don't make the sale today. Like Hank during Grillstraveganza, you provide quality information and let the customer make up their own mind, and your sales will come in at the end of the month. We don't need all those fancy Jo-Jack tricks to make an immediate sale, we can bide our time like Hank.
VPNs are for "illegal stuff." Namely piracy. That and monotoring of your digital things can be done in connection with real world "crimes" like drug use or activism, see: that aforementioned French activist. :upsidedownface:
That may be, but the only confirmation I have of this is your assumption, which is hardly confirmation at all, unless you own Proton.
True, though word of mouth has to come from somewhere, and I'd rather trust a guy with a legit article (hopefully one that says "IVPN servers raided, nothing found") than "GeekFeed's top 10 'no log' VPNs 2023 1. Nord 2. ExpressVPN ad that looks like it'll give me CyberGonorrhea 3. Proton.." Those podcast ad VPNs may be fine to trust for a shaver or some undies but I'm not using my VPN to watch Japanese Netflix, I'm sharing copywritten material in a country that frowns upon such actions.
You may just luck into the sale though, because they may be the one I trust most out of my 2-3 whole options all said and done. I'll make sure to pass on your u-name so you get commission if I do. Like I said though I may just go VPS once I really look into all that, I'm sick of these companies' bullshit.
No, as a man of culture I use Linux.
(Lol just gotta get a dig in, can't resist. I know gaming isn't 100% there yet but Steam and their Proton are making great strides in recent years.)
I bet it does, I'll be paying whoever I go with anyway, but the just the existence of the free tier has me wary due to how every single other free VPN works. It may be that this one subsidizes the free tier with the paid or treats it as a loss leader, but "free VPN" is always sketchy without knowing that for sure, which I do not.
Regardless of monetary incentive or lack thereof, privacy remains a concern. If I were not concerned about privacy, why even use a VPN? Unfortunately, torrenting harms the Tor network, so it is not really a good alternative either.
Email isn't private, sure, but that doesn't mean that your email provider needs to snitch on you to the Feds either. I'm not wary of proton because "email isn't private," I'm wary of proton because "they directly complied with law enforcement's request to turn in an activist." Not that I want that in an email provider itself but I have a VPN. However, if they're also my VPN provider then they have my real IP. Rn, proton only has me from Mullvad and farther back from Nord, they don't know my IP to turn me in, but if I buy their VPN service, that changes, then they know everything.
Honestly I might just look into hosting myself a VPN on a VPS.
Used to use Mullvad but since their port forwarding fiasco I need to switch.
(I get that they had people abusing that system, but as a privacy based service they should expect the same pitfalls as every other privacy based service, like Tor, Matrix, etc. All you can really do is keep whacking the mole, or shut it down for everyone incl. the people using it for it's intended purpose too whom you had advertised port forwarding to, who wouldn't have bought your service if it didn't have port forwarding to begin with.)
So now I'm looking at IVPN or Proton. Does anyone have experience with IVPN or know how trustworthy they are? I'm wary on Proton after Protonmail gave that French activist's IP to their Feds, and they have a free tier which usually on a VPN means they sell your data, but afaik they are the only two that'll let me PF and I have a need, a need to seed.
Well you may want to tell the marxists themselves they aren't anarchists, because they tell me otherwise. And I guess that means Stalin, Pol Pot, and Mao were all Marxists?
Do Marxists always simp for Stalin and Mao?
No I still disagree with them and it is through arguing with them, not "western propaganda" unless that is what they themselves are following. Not that I agree with the US gov's atrocities either, but it is possible to disagree with more than one thing of course.
Because as I understand it Marxism is a stateless society, but most of the people here were supporting State Communism, so not Marxism.
My brain will never not read that as "communications," I'm gonna think everyone here is real serious about HAM radio lol.
I recognize you, you're an old head around these parts, you were there during my battle with that one CHEF_KOCH fuckface, I like you.
That said, you've been here at least as long as I have, semantics regarding the word "shill" aside you know this place is (kinda was) a majority State Communist, or "Tankie," echo chamber, and they pushed it relentlessly. It's why you only ever saw me in c/linux, I don't like political evangelism to the degree it used to be found here. C'mon lol.
obscuremedia, tipofmytongue, gameboy, consolerepair
I can get down with that, I'm just along for the ride lmao.
Personally I'm hoping some (like the infinity devs) hop on and develop a clone of their apps. If they aren't gonna be developing those anymore then why not?
Instances are your server, you can think of them as "reddit" individually with their own "subreddits" (I forget what we call them but it isn't sublemmy for some reason, I think it is just "communities").
The difference is that all the different separate "reddits" talk to each other and display posts from all the ones they talk to on the "all" tab. The "local" tab is your instance and it's sub-communities only which seems to be lemmy.ml, but under the "all" tab you'll notice "communities"@beehaw.org as well since they talk to each other, and users from either can see both.
If you're familiar with mastodon, lemmy is like reddit and mastodon had a baby together.
Pro-pineapple (but anti-hawaiian, should be pep, pine, jalaps) here: I'd try it, but only with chicken and Habeneros if I can, jalaps if they have no habs.