Someone always has the money. That’s who will be buying things.

Unless those instance owners have access to someone’s google account data then I’m guessing they have no more data on said user than any other website they visit.

The only hope is youtube to die

We can live in hope.

how the algorithm influences what the creators do with their contents

Yes, that’s exactly what I meant. The impact of business and technology on culture.

I would much prefer to see content from something like peertube or from independent websites.

Sort of. If I’m not logged into google or they can’t monetise my data or serve me ads then I feel I have ‘de-googled’ from a privacy and convenience point of view. Nevertheless, if I’m still using what they are providing then I’m not doing anything to support or legitimise google’s competitors. I’m also still going to see the sort of content that is cultivated by youtube’s algorithms and business practices.

Third party apps are great though, especially if they can support multiple video hosting platforms and download videos to view offline. Newpipe is a good example of this. I can quickly go between my youtube subscriptions and my peertube ones.

It might be worth looking again at pay-as-you-go. Here in the UK at least, there are some ‘bundle’ plans that are not actually that much more expensive than a contract. Topping up with a voucher once a month is a bit inconvenient but not too bad. You

I don’t know to what extent the phone companies log and share your usage (if you’re in an English-speaking country it’s likely quite extensive) but I would imagine they could still identify you probabilistically by your patterns of use, including which towers you connect to. Using a VPN/proxy/TOR would at least limit the number of IP addresses they see you connecting to but that’s off topic a bit.

Minetest in creative mode with Radio Free Fedi’s comfy channel playing in the background 🤌

What would be the benefits of this over Nextcloud, apart from not having to set it up?

I had no idea this was already happening…

Pray nobody knocks over an ashtray on that.

What’s the vibe in Switzerland about the upcoming quarter final against England?

Not enough just to get someone else to take your cheap plastic shit to landfill after it’s cluttered their space then I guess.

Looking forward to someone answering this

Purely from the point of view of a museum visitor it’s a unique and exceptional experience being able to see so much of the worlds history and culture in one place. But at the same time it takes away something that could be really special about travelling to another country because that’s the only place where these things are on display.

If anyone wants my ebook library just let me know.

Any company that tells you to ‘get used’ to something has massively overstepped the mark.

People you buy things from are not your boss.

Unless you are addicted to them, in which case they are.

Imagine what projects like GIMP, Krita, Inkscape, Scribus etc could do with a fraction of monthly revenue of Adobe.