I think you should do you and browse whatever you want. I still use Reddit when looking for opinions on products and services because there’s nothing close to the discussion on there. But visiting the site (without an adblocker) 100% still generates ad revenue and is what matters to ad companies, regardless of actually participating in the discussion.
I had to click a link to another article that had the link to the video on Twitter 🙄
https://twitter.com/JoeBiden/status/1681424737384435713?s=20
I think that’s reasonable. As bullish as my response was, in the end, we all have our priorities and I think its’s totally fair to value convenience as long as you understand what that convenience really means. Taking mitigations to get your news using platforms that don’t rely on algorithms to provide what will delight or infuriate you is a step in the right direction.
In my opinion is that the issue is feeding data into a monolith that knows you better than you know yourself. The amount of data they have for everyone allows them to create profiles and find similarities that can predict proclivities that you don’t know about yet.
There’s nothing wrong about enjoying the conveniences of being recommended things you’re interested in, but this also means that they can sugeest things you didn’t even know you wanted (and probably wouldn’t have ever have wanted.
Combine that with the fact that this doesn’t just stop at product placement. It becomes all to easy for a malicious company to feed you news and opinion meant to make you feel a certain way or sway your opinion. It gives corporations way too much power over the thoughts and opinions you have on a day-to-day basis and makes you powerless against them.
And before you say, “I’m a smart, well-rounded person and would not be susceptible to those things,” literally everyone is susceptible. There’s no outsmarting them if you play their game. The only way to win is through digital privacy.
It’s all personal preference. There’s certainly pros and cons to both. I think Tildes tends to have more in-depth and thoughtful conversation than what I’ve seen on Lemmy so far.
There’s docs that details the Philosophy if you want to take a look. I’m personally interested in both for different reasons.
I think these malicious compliance subreddit responses are as fun as the next person, but honest question: doesn’t this work out in Reddit’s favor? They don’t care what’s posted as long as content is being generated and traffic being driven to their site, right?
I use Aegis, which automatically backs up with each change to the database to a folder that gets synced to a couple of different computers via syncthing.
For backup codes, I have a separate keypass database that’s backed up to a couple of places. I thought about using Bitwarden for this backup, but having my 2FA backups in the same place as my passwords kinda defeated the point, IMO.
Anyway, this system has worked well for me.
Or Wallabag, an open source alternative for those hearing about Pocket for the first time.
Well, you see, I want to be able to persecute others because that’s, like, the foundation of my religion. But it doesn’t really feel right because I end up feeling like the instigator. So I go out looking for reasons I’m being persecuted against so I can sleep at night after a good long day of playing the victim and retaliatory persecuting others.
And that basically explains masks and the rest of the garbage the right yells about.