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Oh yes, they're beautiful!

Like Peertube is sitting right there, but everyone that joined Mastodon instances is sharing YouTube links.

Yeah, but often the stuff you want to share isn't on PeerTube. I think that's more the issue than people not wanting to use it/share from it.

I don't even use YT directly, always trough a privacy front-end. When I share however, I share the link to YT instead of to the front-end. There are multiple privacy front-ends, and for most devices there are ways to redirect those. By linking the original link, they can redirect to whichever they preffer.

A lot of stuff I follow is on Mastodon nowadays, and Lemmy isn't as much about following specific people but topics and conversations. But a lot of channels I like are not on PeerTube. Only if they switch, or a lot of new equally interesting ones take their place, will linking PeerTube become the norm. But whenever I check PeerTube now, it's just not that interesting.

No, VPNs aren't for piracy, or criminal stuff. They technically aren't even for hiding your real IP. They are for connecting devices over the public network while mimicing the security of a private one, something useful for companies who need to work remotely and some other similar use-cases. It's usage for criminal stuff, getting around region locks, and all that stuff isn't it's intended purpose, but secondary purposes it turned out useful for due to the side-effects.

The fact you use a third party instead of setting up a VPN server yourself like you'd do with it's intended purpose, means that you are giving all your internet traffic to that third party. That in and of itself already creates an extra weakness. And if you do use your own server, then that server might be traceable to you instead.

Even when using a VPN for privacy, to hide your identity on the web, that doesn't mean you use it for criminal activities. Wanting privacy and secure systems isn't neccesarily linked to participating in criminal activities. People who use a VPN just for privacy, are well off with a provider that doesn't log unless a coord order is received.

People who focus on criminal activities. To be honest trusting on a VPN alone to keep you save from law enforcement is just stupid. There are too many weaknesses related to VPNs that could easily give you away if they really want to find you, even outside of the provider. They simply aren't made for that, and not as bullet proof as people think. While they are very useful for privacy usage and many of it's risks can be mitigated, it takes more than turn it on and you'll be private. Trusting that a VPN alone will keep you safe is foolish in todays age.

As for Proton not logging until they've got a court order. You don't have to assume it from me, a quick online search shows the policies at Proton as well as results of how they handled earlier court cases. Cases where authorities wanted earlier data and Proton couldn't comply because they didn't have it, and cases where they logged data they refused to do so until thry received a court order. I say results to legal cases are the best proof there is. I'd take actual trackrecord over any article, no matter what "legit guy" wrote it. Also, I've never said a thing about those sketchy top10 lists thingies, they're as bad and untrustworthy as influencer sponsorships imho. I would trust neither.

I'm not affiliated with Proton, so I have no clue what you're talking about regarding that sale paragraph...

Yeah I use this function mainly on portable devices. At home just block it network wide.

Afaik Proton only logs stuff and gives that to the feds if and after they get a coord order from the Swiss juristiction, in which case any provider would have to do that or they'll be the one taken offline with criminal charges instead. I recall Proton even being quite firm in requiring that order before doing so.

So basically, don't do criminal stuff and you'll be fine. Or at least, don't rely soley on a VPN to hide your criminal stuff 🙃.

As far as the free tiers of their services, they have the same policies but are much more limited. Pretty sure they just pay them from paying users, and use them in hope people trying it become paying users. While it's good to be wary of any free service, especially but not limited to VPNs, I don't think Proton specifically is an issue.

Personally, I'll also be wary for anything that's promoting a lot trough influencers and social media btw. Similar to free services, it's often a sign they're not that trustworthy and upstanding.

Yup I got the whole Proton suit mainly for email and calendar, but use the rest too for specific use-cases.

I also like that Proton has a few VPN servers with adblocker and tracking blocking built in, so you can use the default DNS and have the same settings as other users which helps with avoiding fingerprinting while still having an easy system wide adblocker and tracking blocker.

Well when I'm awake I remember dreaming and sleeping, but when I dream I don't remember clearly what's before until I wake up and the timeline makes sense again. Also, dreams don't connect 100% to reality which I realise after waking up, but reality does.

That, and weird shit happening.

But then, what if my entire life is a dream and I just dreamed that I was dreaming in my dream, and stuff just all seems connects logically because it's 1 big dream 🤔.

I wouldn't say they're more difficult per se. But they're very different in terms of gameplay. The later 3 are the same engine and Todd Howard as dirrector. The earlier are made for DOSS, different engine, and while Todd was involved they had a different director. This all makes them more different compared to the later 3.

If anything, I was suprised bow well they play despite the odd mouse-only controlls. I think Morrowind is the most difficult overal, but Arena and Daggerfall will take a bit more getting used to.

Oh no worries, physics are as bad as vanilla. Altrough I've had more catapulting enemies in Skyrim. Especially hitting goats with fireballs 🤣.

Lemmy is not worse than the rest of the internet. But understanding hów it works is important. Lemmy isn't 1 place, it's hostibg software. There a bunch of different servers ran by different people.

I'm gonna write a bunch here, but no worry. I'll get to the part mentioned in that article. It's just all a bit more complex than "Lemmy does X".

Lemmy, as software, doesn't track shit. It's open source and anyone can check this.

Lemmy instances, are bound to whatever law is applicable to them. A US server aimed to US people is not GDPR restricted. A EU server is. An international server aimed at everyone incl. Europe also is.

If a server tracks you, depends on the server. They cóuld run an altered version of Lemmy software. It's up to you to choose a server who you trust and falls under a juristriction you want. If not, you can always host your own.

Also know that even the GDPR's often qouted "right to be forgotten" only covers the place you have your account at + the places that they share data with themselves. This is an important nuance. Furthermore being forgotten means it has to be anonymised, but any non-personal things can stay online. You have no right to ask to have your every word deleted by these laws, just to have any informatjon tracable to you or your account removed.

As I said, they are responsible for deleting data from places théy send data to. But federation works the other way around. Other places grab from each other. They can only grab stuff you put in public. This is comparable to say:

• You post something on Reddit.
• Someone reposts it on 4chan.
• you remove the Reddit post.
• your post is still on 4chan.

You can try to ask 4chan to remove it, but they likely won't. They just took some public stuff and screenshotted it. It wasn't supplied by Reddit (which requires Reddit sending it to them), but taken by 4chan from a public place. Therefor Reddit is not responsible. Since 4chan isn't in Europe and doesn't actively market themselves to Europeans, they aren't bound hy GDPR. At best, you can try to make a copyright claim, which turns it into a whole other issue.

Lemmy instances are like that. They are all different websites grabbing data from each other, not sending them actively to each other. They just run the same software. But that doesn't mean shit. Most websites run on Linux servers, but that doesn't make Linux responsible. Most servers run Apache or Nginx, but neither of those are responsible. NextCloud also isn't responsible to what files people upload yo their self hosted cloud on their NAS.

In that, Lemmy isn't less private than the rest of the internet. You should, at all times, be careful what you post online. Assuming that whatever you post will be public forever isn't a bad habbit, as you cannot block people from copying it and reposting it elsewhere. Even stuff with "friends only" settings can appear otherside like this, let alobe public posted stuff like Lemmy posts.

With that, as far as removing content goes and what admins can see, I dunno. But the way federation works, posting on a federated server already means purposefully posting something to be copied. It's fully compliant with privacy laws, but indeed hard to delete forever. But that can be the casr for anything on the interbet, especially public stuff.

So, td;dr. Lemmy isn't less safe than the rest of the web. Best advice is don't be too stupid and think before you do shit in public.

Meta is making a Mastodon-compatible Twitter-replacement app. The Beta is already done with sone populair influences and it's supposed to go live sometimes soon afaik.

Otherwise, Mozilla has a Mastodon instance. Depending on how commercial/big you need to be to count as a "corperate instance" to you, there are a few more.

I like Tusky. Works smoothly and very handy when using multiple accounts. Also a bit more configurable and easier to navigate than the official Mastodon one.