opt9

joined 1 year ago
[–] opt9@feddit.ch 0 points 1 year ago

It is not personal preference, it is technical reality. The arguments you give are amateurish and show you have very little understanding of the mechanical workings of either Bitcoin or Monero. It is much better for you to relax, listen and ask questions. This is how you will learn. Then in the future, you will be able to contribute in a meaningful way to these types of conversations.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am a new user just come over from Brave. I really like LibreWolf so far. It works really well and with all the extra security features. Also no bloat! Brave and Vivaldi, although good browsers that make an effort at privacy, are over bloated now with crap I don't want or use. LibreWolf also seems to me faster than Brave (haven't tested but to my eye it seems so). I am moving all bookmarks over as it becomes my primary browser. Was looking for a monero address to donate to but didn't find any donation info on the website...

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Duckduck is definitely a good start, but keep in mind it just anonymizes Google search for you. Brave, Quant, Mojeek and more have indexed their own databases. We need entirely different setups to get around Google's massive censorship and opinion shaping algos that Duckduck cannot bypass. Searx is also interesting as it allows you to choose from a large list of different search engines.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 3 points 1 year ago

There are already several projects based on Chromium that are very well established such as Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and Opera. The project will continue just fine without Google if need be. If they all resist the changes together, Google will have a problem. I'm not expecting anything from Microsoft, but the others might.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago

Me too. I have left Reddit for good and don't look back. I like Lemmy and it's growing fast. It is also in line with the philosophy of Monero (which Reddit directly contradicts).

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

I have left Reddit for good and am not returning. Running a Monero community on a closed and for profit platform that censors and spies on their users is a ridiculous contradiction and makes the ones running it look fake. No more excuses guys.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago
[–] opt9@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So is there a place I can see the total subscribers for a community over all servers? Is that the number that shows when I visit a community on the server it was created on?

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 20 points 1 year ago

Neutral like electricity. It is a force that can be used for good or bad. Google is trying to harness that energy for its own profit and control. I wasn't referring to the structures created to administer it. That is another can of worms.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At his point it’s like saying stop using the internet. No it's not, there are plenty of very good alternatives. I know because I haven't used anything Google in years and I fully engage with society. People just have to put in some effort and stop being spoiled babies and whining all the time when everything is not given to them ready to use and free.

My preferred option would be total nationalization of big tech platforms and handling them as public utilities. Sounds good, but you forget that governments in the West are simply employees of the big corps and banks. It would be the same shit, probably worse because now they wouldn't have to pretend.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 10 points 1 year ago

Fully agree, I was just trying to keep it relevant to Google. All that shit needs to be dropped. As people realize that rather than free, all that shit is really expensive, maybe they'll make a move.

[–] opt9@feddit.ch 24 points 1 year ago (4 children)

the 10% sounds like bait. Once they've got everyone on board and things are running smoothly (for them), it will be muuuch harder to resist.

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