I suppose there’s not really a crucial reason but I just like to do so when I can. More peace of mind that way.

I hadn’t, my apologies for missing that.

Same except I watch with Freetube 99% of the time. Never once had it happen to me.

It’s almost as if communism is an atrocious idea, it’s not like they always turn into dystopian dictatorships or anything 🤔

Dead Internet.

I switched to Strawberry from a lifetime of Winamp usage purely because I wanted an open source music player, so this is amazing news!

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Because it’s a centralized system owned by a sociopath billionaire gathering unchanging, personal details about swaths of the population using ye olde “for the greater good” adage as the justification. You’d have to be a special kind of fool to go along with it.

Almost nothing. I sometimes use it to rephrase a question or answer. I refuse to become dependent on AI or contribute to it more than I already unwittingly have.

I agree but TikTok is worthless in general. The content it serves people is literal brain rot. Also, I don’t want it to sell, I just want it to die and never come back.

I don’t like big government but I have zero sympathy in this case. TikTok is the greatest cancer on modern society and I will not change my mind on that.

Time for them to move over to Matrix.

Clock You. The You suite has some great apps, I use almost all of them. Not only are they libre but they have attractive and very useful GUIs.

Not at all, it’s one of the best resources for people interested in privacy and digital freedom.

It wouldn’t surprise me but it’s not like Pixelfed competes with IG in the narcissistic-influencers-posting-every-second way. Pixelfed is basically a federated version of what IG was, before influencers started posting their whole lives there.

Brave Talk might be worth checking if you use Brave. Doesn’t require an account, people can join from any browser, optional E2EE if all parties are joining in Brave.

https://infosec.pub/comment/7215107

If you use Brave, try the built-in Brave Talk. It’s forked from Jitsi and doesn’t require any account. You can also bring people on even if they have other browsers, it’s just that the end-to-end encryption is only available if everyone is using Brave. If E2EE isn’t a concern though, it should suffice entirely.

Imagine canceling one of the fathers of the modern WWW because he hurt your feelings…

I used to use DDG until they started censoring results.

I use Brave Search and Startpage. The latter is basically just a private Google proxy with some cool features and the former is fully independent, private, aesthetically appealing and has nice optional AI features.

Try this, it’s great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Yu4_AVG1Wk