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Follow the basic rules of lemmy.world and common sense, and try to have fun if possible.
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New community rule: Shilling for cunty corporations, their subscriptions and other anti-customer practices may result in a 1-day ban. It's so you can think about what it's like when someone can randomly decide what you can and can't use, based on some arbitrary rules. Oh what, you didn't read this fine print? You should read what you're agreeing to.
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Some other groovy communities for those who wish to own their products, their data and their life:
Some other useful links:
Louis Rossman's YouTube channel
Look at content hosted at Big Tech without most of the nonsense:
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/12700714
On mobile, it prompts you to either "get the app" or "open app" with no way to click past. Screenshot won't upload.
This is worse from several months ago https://lemmy.today/post/8935690
You should have permanently deleted dropbox files and account back when they announced they were using your files to train AI on.
MEGA used to (maybe still does?) do this stuff. Once you changed useragent to desktop, magically a signup wasn't required
I been using Psitranfer lately its great self hosted can ensure my files rae safe and can even password protect shit its awsome.
Sounds like the company's juicing the account growth metric. Just shippin' that org chart...
luckily someone already uploaded the lemon demon stems to archive.org!