Yeah I hope that happens. But I’m pretty low on hope these days…

99% of the people won’t care and continue using it anyway. The other 1℅ isn’t nearly enough to keep any non AOSP OS alive.

They’ll just block that too. Can’t have a full blown dictatorship without taking away any freedom people have. Better not have a negative opinion about it either.

Holy Fuck 1984 was a warning, not a fucking manual on how to do things.

Gee I totally didn’t see this coming and made a comment about it earlier. Oh wait I totally did.

The peoples republic of United Kingdom.

“The average European household now spends close to €700 (£600) a year on three or more VOD subscriptions. People pay more and get less.”

Lol, not me.

The post itself is reasonable quality and informative so I find it upvote worthy. If a post is low quality or a shit post then I downvote.

To me the karma system is about quality. Not an “I agree/disagree” button.

For comments I only down vote obvious trolls, bigots/racism etc.

The thing is… What alternatives are there? Signal can’t be trusted (on the very same website there is an article about it). I’m not using closed source alternatives, Simplex is kinda shady too tbh and I’m not even sure I could get anyone to use it.

I don’t like Matrix/Element either but sadly its the best open source chat solution we have.

FairPhone can run Postmarket OS, eOS, iodeos, calyxos and lineageos.

Some have longer support than others. Also you can buy separate parts for their phones and they are modular.

Oh you were talking about social media. I was talking about music services.

Fair enough then. I agree there is no excuse to still use X

Doesnt calyxos also work on fairphone

So what is there for normies? YouTube which is also owned by a fascist company. Deezer which is shit. Apple which is another fascist company that supports trump. Tidal which has also had its fair share of controversy ( not paying artists), shit ui etc.

And if you mention the fediverse people will look at you like you speak an alien language.

What about people who already have a BT headset, or people who are looking to buy their first headset and don’t own one yet? You just straight up assume everyone still had a headset with wires lying around and that they somehow never break.

Having to buy something makes it bad isn’t really an argument. The very post you are making right now is made from a devide that has been manufactured at some point in time. If you start reasoning like that its better to start living in the woods with no possessions at all.

They are easily repairable and you don’t have to throw them away if the battery goes bad (just replace it).

How is that a bad thing? About 90% of other brands you can throw them away if the battery goes bad or they break.

Lol, this is exactly why I use Lemmy. Sure there might be less engagement than reddit. But I’d rather gargle a bucket of diarrhea than go back to that shitty place.

Yes and? Do people who use X really care about privacy. Everyone who even remotely cared already jumped ship and moved on to matrix, signal, Simplex etc.

And im not even mentioning the fact X is owned by a psychopath. But hey let’s pretend they care about your privacy.

Sadly I think most will just switch to bluesky so they can see the next disaster of enshittification unfold.

Also it doesn’t help most celebrities moved to bluesky as well. Then there is the fact you have to choose an instance on lemmy which scares most people away.

I hope lemmy gets traction…

I dont get why people visit it anymore. The censorship, gatekeeping and botposting is just absolutely bonkers.

Like okay, maybe if you only watch memes and cat pictures I can kinda understand. But every single sub I’ve been in had an idiotic amount of gatekeeping. Just mentioning grapheneos in some subs could get you banned. Just mentioning luigi mangione could get you banned. Oh your post is falsely flagged as inappropriate? Banned, and good luck trying to appeal.

It’s become an absolute dystopian shithole. Lemmy isn’t perfect but at least if the host of your instance goes insane you can leave for another. And if you don’t like what you see you can choose to block it.

I’ve decided I’m not using websites that block mullvad anymore. I’m talking about a hard block like reddit does and not a captcha (captcha is fine by me).

If they’re doing that much trouble to prevent me from using a VPN they must me doing some pretty shady shit with my data.

I will not move to another VPN because of all VPNs I feel Mullvad respects my privacy most.

Yeah, it’s kinda sad but that will probably happen.

Thanks I’ll definitely check that out. I’ve seen some posts about it working on Synology Nas devices so that’s very interesting.