• JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    51·
    6 days ago

    This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.

    • kerrigan778@lemmy.world
      4·
      6 days ago

      The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.

        Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    87·
    6 days ago

    This list seems a bit flawed, for instance on the travel line, Trivago is owned by Expedia in the US and Booking is headquartered in Amsterdam.

    Also including BlueSky seems a little odd given the intent

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
      221·
      6 days ago

      Re Bluesky I did some “I am not a lawyer” digging.

      Bluesky is owned by “Bluesky Social PBC”, a Public Benefit Company registered in Delaware.

      Generally speaking it means when decisions about the company are made, they must take into account how that decision benefits their stated public value. I struggled to find the specific value wording, but let’s assume it’s a reasonable one for the time being.

      Unfortunately being a PBC is basically voluntary, especially when you’re still a private company. You can become a non-PBC with a simple board vote. (A public company would require a stockholder vote.)

      Bluesky’s board consists of four members, one of which is Bain Capital, aka the company funding Bluesky.

      So Bluesky is absolutely a better alternative to Twitter. If everyone left Twitter and moved to Bluesky that would be a monumental improvement.

      However Bluesky is not a non-profit company, as the above graphic states.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Trivago isn’t completely “owned” by Expedia, but Expedia does own a majority of the company stock. Its headquarters are in Germany, and 100% of its employees are there.

      Booking.com is 100% owned by Priceline, a US company. They also have a long string of international controversies.

  • redacted2@lemmy.world
    693·
    6 days ago

    Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.

    This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
      145·
      6 days ago

      It’s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t have the right pull right now.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        221·
        6 days ago

        Regardless, flat-out lying and saying that Bluesky is non-profit is a bad look.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          6·
          6 days ago

          I agree.

          Taking sides in a war kerfuffle between billionaires that don’t care about you is just weird nonsense.

          Go as fossy as possible and support your devs directly.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        6 days ago

        Shout-out to Sharkey! We’re young, hip and have reactions other than “heart”. Plus, we can talk to Mastodon instances and it all just works. Ever thought what your social network needed was unlockable achievements? We’ve got that, too!

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          Neat - any public instances accepting registrations?

          btw lil formatting quirk on Safari iOS (maybe just appropriate punishment 😉) if y’all know who has edit access

        • Enkrod@feddit.org
          3·
          5 days ago

          You made me look up Sharkey and create a Sharkey account, just letting you know you had some impact.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      It’s basically filling the void the Xitter transition created. Either way, we got a massive boost in the decentralised space.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    464·
    6 days ago

    There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.

      • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        5 days ago

        It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      104·
      6 days ago

      “Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction

        • Jhex@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter

          It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            5·
            6 days ago

            While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.

            Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).

            I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.

      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
        1·
        5 days ago

        Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.

    • Synapse@lemmy.world
      31·
      6 days ago

      Some more recommendations

      Category FOSS
      Media player mpv
      Drawing Krita
      Vectorial illustration Inkscape
      Video editing Kdenlive
      Music making Ardour
    • PoopingCough@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      6 days ago

      Look, I love Audacity which is an awesome audio editor but it is absolutely not an alternative to Logic or Fl, which are DAWs.

    • limoncia@lemm.ee
      7·
      6 days ago

      Audacity isn’t a good replacement at all for those. It has a different purpose. There should be LMMS and Ardour instead

    • I Cast Fist@programming.dev
      7·
      6 days ago

      FreeCAD is a start, but nowhere as good as AutoCAD, unfortunately. I haven’t tried GIMP’s v3.0 version yet, but 2.x is terrible to use. Depending on what you need to do, Krita would be a better alternative.

      • Fonzie!@ttrpg.network
        3·
        6 days ago

        Who’s using VLC in 2025? It renders colours in mkvs so badly sometimes! mpv (with SMPlayer as front end) is where it’s at!

      • limoncia@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        6 days ago

        I still use Winamp 5.666 but with the Big Bento theme. I still can’t find a replacement that would be just as good or better.

    • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
      3·
      6 days ago

      The best alternative to commercial CAD systems is commercial CAD systems if you know what I mean. That said, FreeCAD is the only option if you want to run on Linux. Inventor, Solidworks, AutoCAD, etc, are all borked even in wine.

        • Know_not_Scotty_does@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          I never really cared for onshape/simscale or fusion. Maybe I am just oldschool but the whole browser based thing didn’t sit right with me for CAD stuff.

          • BastingChemina@slrpnk.net
            2·
            6 days ago

            I’ve worked professionally with a lot of CAD systems in the past (Caria, Solidworks, Siemens NX, Creo …) and Onshape feels so refreshing compared to all of these “old school” CAD systems.

            The git like system to manage to manage version for example works extremely well, performance wise it can be used on a potato and being browser based it can be used on Linux.

            The design process is extremely smooth and intuitive.

            My only problem with it is that unfortunately all the data is cloud based and it requires a constant internet connection but so far I have not found a worthy alternative.

    • ReluctantZen@feddit.nl
      1·
      6 days ago

      Word alternative: I started trying out OnlyOffice, based in Latvia. So far it seems decent. Definitely doesn’t look as dated as Open- and LibreOffice.

      Logic, FL Studio alternative: Audacity is in my opinion not a serious alternative. If you want simple voice overs, sure, but otherwise no. I’d recommend Reaper instead. Not open source, but there aren’t many DAWs that are (maybe Ardour, but I don’t have experience with it ). Reaper is really open as far as proprietary DAWs go.

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    10·
    5 days ago

    Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      5 days ago

      Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      5 days ago

      These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.

  • Superheavy@lemmy.world
    5·
    4 days ago

    I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      5·
      4 days ago

      It’s a process.

      You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate

      I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they don’t allow changing your address at all 😆

  • underscore_@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    5 days ago

    The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!

  • kameecoding@lemmy.world
    22·
    6 days ago

    How can you make appliances list without Miele?

    If you are in the market for a vacuum cleaner do yourself a favor, go more expensive and get a Miele, especially if you have some carpets, most vacuums can do a job on hard floors, but damn the difference of vacuuming carpets either a cheap vacuum vs my Miele is night and day.

    (Don’t know about the rest of their products, but they are german and a family owned business)

    • edgesmash@lemmy.world
      12·
      6 days ago

      I missed the “and guns” part of your first sentence, which made me think, “Whoa, I gotta get me a Glock power drill.”

      Good to know about Bosch, Festool, and Hilti, thanks for the info. My ancient Dewalt drill just started smoking, so I now know where to look.

      • VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        10·
        6 days ago

        If you want something really good get Makita from Japan. Bosch has two quality levels green is meh to good, blue is very good.

        • edgesmash@lemmy.world
          1·
          6 days ago

          Thanks! I’m just a hapless homeowner who occasionally roleplays being handy enough to fix things (though my last shelving unit for my basement came out remarkably level, surprisingly).

          (I had actually been hoping to repair the Dewalt, as it’s a hand-me-down from my dad (fuck cancer), but I’m pretty sure it’d be a lost cause (the drill is at least 20 years old, probably older, I’m pretty sure I remember my dad using it when I was a kid).)

      • VerifiedSource@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        6 days ago

        Yes, they produce mostly abroad afaik. Another somewhat known company from Liechtenstein is cable maker Neutrik. If you’ve even been in a pro audio or broadcasting studio or a scientific lab, you probably have used their cables.

  • I_poop_from_there@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    6 days ago

    This list has some issues, Booking.com is Dutch and Philips’ Consumer division is just a name that whitelabels other companies products and is owned by a Chinese investment company.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      1·
      5 days ago

      Booking is 100% owned by Priceline (renamed Booking Holdings). They only paid $113M for the company in 2005. That’s a damn steal.

      The other travel “alternatives” are either owned by Expedia, majority stock holders by Expedia, or just act as a front end search for Expedia and VRBO. It’s honestly ridiculous.

  • rtxn@lemmy.world
    25·
    6 days ago

    Also: avoid AKG, consider Austrian Audio.

    AKG is a popular brand in professional music and audiophile circles. It was bought by Samsung in 2016, who promptly drove the company into the ground, closed their Austrian facilities, and moved headquarters to America and production to SE-Asia. AKG’s name is now used for brand recognition on Samsung’s generic big tech garbage. Yes, I’m still salty about it.

    Austrian Audio was founded by the actual engineers who worked at AKG, currently owned by a Danish audio tech company. They produce high-end professional headphones.