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The presentation of this information feelsβ¦ curated. It's difficult to dismiss the possibility that itβs been strategically crafted, perhaps as a form of marketing. The echo of Protonmail's previous Mastodon activity β a year of seemingly earnest engagement that ultimately felt rather self-serving β lends a certain cynicism to the matter.
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Moving from YouTube Music to Spotify?
Spotify has been fucking over artists for years
Might as well go to Deezer.
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.
Any artist I hear online that I like their music, if they dont have a BC page, I suggest they sort one out. What I like about them is that I can stream peoples music via the app but also download it so I actually 'own' the music. I also like buying physical releases from artists through there.
I've not sold music through there so I'm not au fait with their terms but I know its not as terrible as all the streaming sites.
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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.
U.S. citizen here
The administration is putting tendrils into things, heading toward fascism.
US companies are being forced to bend the knee. Government agencies are sucking up information to be used against people the future or sold at an alarming rate.
If you can find a one to one alternative to a US-based service it's a really good time to head that way. I know I am.
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At least Youtube Music can be used with third-party clients.
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Mastadon
recommending reddit
am I being too grumpy?
It doesn't recommend using reddit. It recommends moving from reddit to lemmy.
Yeah, only to say "follow me on reddit" at the end.
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Replacing Google Drive is the hardest for me. I'm not a fan of the nextcloud bloat, Seafile is hard to setup. Didn't expect this to be the largest struggle of the whole process.
Once proton integrates an office suite I'll be all set. (It's in the road map. When? Who knows?)
I'm considering kdrive based on prices.
I used nextcloud for a while but ended up with a combo of syncthing and filebrowser to similar effect
Nice tip, I'll look into that!
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Wait....what....????!!! There's paid browser out there ???
I don't think it's a paid browser (there are a few of those though) it's a paid search engine.
i figured this was likely astroturfing by one of the many shitty companies it is advertising, so i went looking for the source. somewhat to my surprise this image was apparently created by reddit user u/theFallenWalnut who's actually been posting there for over 10 years π€
if you check their account you'll see they've actually updated their recommendations to remove several companies (including proton and spotify) which are included in the older version of it posted here.
but, they're still suggesting lots of garbage.
see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethical_consumerism#Criticism
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.
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