Maybe you have other information that I’m not aware of, but this article gives what looks to me a balanced review of whether Andy Yen supports Trump or not:

medium.com/…/does-proton-really-support-trump-a-d…

It’s not a cut and dry pro-MAGA situation.

If we’re judging all products by the personalities of people who run them we’d have nothing left lol

ACAB: All CEOs Are Bastards. You can switch to another corporation, but their CEO will also be a bourgeois bastard. Tim Apple attended Trump’s inauguration.

Not a good reason to leave Proton.

yeah everything you post on Mastodon is public. I assume this is about the data being collected on you, which Mastodon doesn’t do, there’s no telemetry and such.

When you implement OOP the right way, it can have decent privacy. Up to the coder, really.

And so are the rest of them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Yeah that rec shocked me. Bandcamp surely if possible is best for the artist.

Yeah spotify is fucking vile. I hear my peers praise it for its alleged ability to perfect tailor playlists and recommendations for music discovery- because I guess we can’t be bothered to figure out what music we like anymore. And them of course, it behinds spoonfeeding its users their own ai-generated slop that they don’t have to pay licensing fees for.

Seriously. They donated millions to the trump campaign and barely pay artists pennies.

The music space is one of the biggest things we’re lacking platforms for right now for sure. I’ve shifted over to Tidal for the time being, but I swear I’m just tempted to go back to local files at this point.

Yeah it makes no sense to me how dumb people can be. Like

“Yeah let’s move away from one proprietary social media that got enshitified to another proprietary social media that will definitely enshitify”

I don’t know how many times people have to learn the exact same lesson before they finally figure it out but I think there’s a fucking quote about that.

As I understand, an adtech company bought a majority stake in StartPage in 2019, and though they apparently can’t use that stake to force privacy-threatening changes, I personally find that acquisition disconcerting. Probably not enough to say it’s unsafe to use, but enough that I prefer some of the other options out there.

Apple Music is also there, so I assume it is because Safari is Apple’s browser.

Closed-source and not available on most people’s computers.

Yes we do.

We even have laws that say we can’t say we received a request on an individual level not a company level which means we aren’t suppose to tell our lawyers.

dissatisfied with this formerly-popular social media platform that experienced a hostile fascist takeover and enshittification? Join us on this currently-popular social media platform that will undergo the same event in seven years! Because how are we supposed to make profits by learning from our mistakes?

But, all the liberals are there now, so it must be great! /s

BlueSky is open source.

Blue sky has an algorithm, people really want their algorithms. They don’t want to have to go and search out all of the content, they want to be spoon-fed. When Twitter exploded and Mastodon had their API gate, a lot of journalists and celebrities tested out the water on Mastodon but over time they slowly bled over and end up in Bluesky.

I’m not saying that Mastodon can’t survive without an algorithm but they don’t make any attempt to deliver content to a person that they find relevant. It’s all organic discovery and that’s very 00’s ish.

And what’s just as important - not as resilient.

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same

To be fair, the people here in Lemmy already know about half of these and are willing to changethe rest. Using reddit to spread the word actually reaches the target audience of this post.

I don’t think I have ever seen a worse sourced Wikipedia section. I agree with the general sentiment but holy shit I’m suprised that whole section hasn’t just been thrown out.

Edit: checked the talk page apparently it was one of the students edited ones which explains why it reads like an essay I rushed out the night before the due date.

Yeah, I excitedly checked out the environmental, non-google, private search engine I’d never heard of, only to discover that Ecosia “only” shares all your data with Google and Microsoft Bing, as it uses their search engines and ad services. They do plant trees, but, their website doesn’t even pretend to be interested in privacy or avoiding Google.

No idea what that walnut is smoking.

I don’t think it’s a paid browser (there are a few of those though) it’s a paid search engine.

I used nextcloud for a while but ended up with a combo of syncthing and filebrowser to similar effect

I’m considering kdrive based on prices.

Once proton integrates an office suite I’ll be all set. (It’s in the road map. When? Who knows?)

I’ve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.

Proton drive?

It doesn’t recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.

There’s errors on the new one too but the one you’re looking at is slightly old

bsky.app/profile/…/3ll2ak7nr722x

At least Youtube Music can be used with third-party clients.

It’s non-US. Honestly, I’m not really on the whole non-US bandwagon. It feels kind of xenophobic and a large blast radius. Even for privacy, non-US isn’t even enough, it needs to be in specific countries.

Bandcamp might have been bought out by Epic Games, but the platform has given me magnitudes more money for my music than every other streaming platform combined.

Might as well go to Deezer.

Yeah, I had to check the decision making process there, it’s just that it’s not American.

Genuinely not my post. I just shared it from my saved images on my phone. I really don’t like the idea of being exploited by tech companies with no regard for their users.

Matrix is alright with clients like Element (X) and Cinny. But for me it’s rather a (still somewhat lacking) Discord replacement. Maybe at some point with better clients this improves. The protocol already allows for a lot of stuff but most clients don’t implement most functionality (yet).

IMO the best choices are Tuta Mail or Proton Mail. Proton has the best UI and UX but is a bit controversial due to its CEO. I personally use Proton because the UI is that much better.

I got my own domain. It’s still a ton of work because you have to switch everything, but once you’ve done this you will be independent: if you dislike your current provider you can make a copy, switch providers and every account keeps working.

Now my old Gmail accounts redirect everything to my new email and this way I can switch whatever I forgot.

My main suggestion is to start, and to start earlier rather than later. If you have an email account you don't like, every time you express that it's associated with you means you'll have to make one more update in order to completely switch.

I decided to switch around Black Friday when there was a discount for a paid subscription, and then to try to avoid using my old email account unless I saw a website reference it (like if I had to log in or specifically check for an email).

I feel a lot more comfortable using email than I used to (although I still try to avoid using it), so switching has improved my quality of life overall.