cyborganism
@cyborganism@lemmy.ca
- Comment on How do you pronounce "centaur" and why? 5 days ago:
sans-taure (because I’m francophone)
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
I understand your point. But, I don’t think anyone here is creating instances in the hopes of collecting money. They’re just trying to keep the internet free (as in speech). And no, it probably doesn’t cost that much for a server with 16k users, but it still costs something and someone is paying for that out of pocket.
We have to understand that we’re at a crossroads right now. Most of the internet is dominated by GAFAM and they control the access to information and how it’s provided. They control the narrative and have a huge bias in favor of unfettered capitalism and fascism. They not only use your own personal information for profit, but hey also benefit from government subsidies paid by taxpayers.
Meanwhile you have a government that’s increasingly cutting funding for almost everything, including important organizations that fund critical open source projects.
If we want a free (as in speech) internet, we have to understand it comes at a cost and we can’t rely on governments to fund these projects. It’s up to us to put our money where our mouth is.
I’m by no means a whale. But, if us little fishes all band together, we can become even bigger than a whale.
- Comment on The admin of the third largest Mastodon instance (16k monthly active users) is asking for help to pay rent 1 week ago:
Seriously. If this is your main instance, set up monthly donations. Even if it’s just 1$/£/€ or whatever. Times 16k that’s $16,000+/month. I donate to mine every month.
The fediverse is free because someone else is paying for it out of their own pocket. Not because they’re collecting and selling your private data. So do your part. It’s for the greater good and the freedom of the internet.
- Comment on Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers 1 week ago:
I’m increasingly seeing ads about Canadian cloud hosting services. I just hope companies stat to look at local solutions seriously.
- Comment on Satire is dead 👌 1 week ago:
Ah ok. Thanks! :)
- Comment on Satire is dead 👌 1 week ago:
I wonder what messaging service they used.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 1 week ago:
I… I didn’t even know there were so many.
- Comment on Microsoft is killing OneNote for Windows 10 2 weeks ago:
Hell, just talking about teams in Teams is confusing enough.
- Comment on How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? 2 weeks ago:
Welp. A small inconvenience is the price to pay if you want privacy from the authorities.
I keep telling friends and family to switch browsers, switch text messengers, even switch social networks and they just complain that it’s all just inconveniences. But then they complain about their privacy.
C’mon.
- Comment on How to protect against someone forcefully unlocking my phone and password manager with biometrics? 2 weeks ago:
I heard somewhere that authorities can’t ask you for a PIN but can ask you for a pattern because of the way the law is written.
I’d love for someone to confirm that though.
- Comment on Kill your Feeds - Stop letting algorithms dictate how you think (mastodon mentioned) 4 weeks ago:
The part where Mastodon is mentioned:
Use platforms and platform features that let you control your experience - Instagram’s ‘Following’ feed, YouTube’s Subscriptions page, Bluesky, Mastodon and RSS feeds
There ya go.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
It’s a shame because there are good American businesses that are affected by this. There are companies that I respect. But it is what it is.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Was gonna say that.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
I don’t use them or never read their privacy policy so i don’t know. But it’s not because it’s a paid service that company won’t use your data to sell it for more profit. That’s EXTRA profit for them, so why the hell not. And them being based in the US means I already can’t trust them with their poor privacy laws.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 4 weeks ago:
Cool. Wish more search engines would do that.
But, as far as Kagi goes, it’s a paid service and it’s an American company. So I won’t be using them.
- Comment on Reddit tracking upvotes for mod actions 4 weeks ago:
No offense but, I would’ve posted that on the many Reddit communities instead of this one. We don’t need to be reminded how shitty Reddit is.
Let’s focus on how the fediverse is doing instead.
- Comment on LibreWolf team has joined Mastodon 4 weeks ago:
Hahaha! Yeah
- Comment on Firefox deletes promise to never sell personal data, asks users not to panic | Mozilla says it deleted promise because "sale of data" is defined broadly 5 weeks ago:
That’s worrying…
- Comment on In January, billionaires amassed more wealth than the poorest third of humanity owns. 5 weeks ago:
Every year…
I honestly don’t care anymore. What’s the point of getting outraged over this when we could be speding that time and energy into building guillotines.
- Comment on John Oliver promoted alternatives to big tech in last night's episode, including Mastodon and Pixelfed 5 weeks ago:
You have to use a VPN.
- Comment on Can we please make a viable (federated!) amazon alternative? I have an idea! 1 month ago:
It’s much more than that. Amazon’s strength is also in its proximity warehouses and contacts with delivery companies.
Otherwise you just have a federated Ebay.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
You wish. It’s not gonna happen with these douchebags in power.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service 1 month ago:
They also block any content, even private messages that contain Bluesky for example.
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 1 month ago:
I ALREADY DO GOD DAMMIT! (Seriously I have pen pals. I write letters every year. I’m actually late and need to write them!)
- Comment on Larry Ellison wants to put all America's data, including DNA, in one big Oracle system for AI to study 1 month ago:
Seriously, people in the U.S. have to start using that 2nd amendment and start eliminating the threats to their country. Like this guy.
- Comment on Google is on the Wrong Side of History. 1 month ago:
That’s why I just upgraded my subscription to Proton. (YES I KNOW ABOUT ALL THE DRAMA WITH THEIR CEO!!! AT LEAST THEY’RE NOT SELLING AI SERVICES TO MILITARY CONTRACTORS, DOING MASS SURVEILLANCE OR SELLING MY FUCKING DATA!)
- Comment on Shopify pulls Kanye’s website offline over swastika merch 1 month ago:
What a way to honoer his mother’s name than to name his creative company after her and then associate all of this with nazism.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 month ago:
OK i guess that settles it.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 month ago:
I had a Big Mac a few months ago last year. There’s nothing “big” about the Mac anymore.
- Comment on no words, much feelings 1 month ago:
For me is the “Get the reefill app” part that gets me. Like why do you need an app for that?