lemmy.world
Why, where is lemmy.world based?
yigruzeltil
joined 3 months ago
It's not about "Nerd Standards", it's about the fact there are reasons to not deem Mozilla so trustworthy anymore: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-firefox-i-loved-is-gone-how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-it-now/ (I am linking the article for the facts it points out; in the author's place, I wouldn't recommend Brave either).
Linux is becoming mainstream, the other two big OS happen to be closed-source and based in a country which is now becoming a dictatorship bent on declaring war on everyone. If you're in the EU or in China and you're still using Windows right now, you might want to be concerned about your security even if you're just a normal end user. It is widely known Microsoft mine users' data - and when it comes to that, Trump has been blowing up the EU-US Data Deal. Government agencies and companies all over EU are now scrambling to switch to EU-based cloud providers and other IT solutions. It's no joke: https://noyb.eu/en/us-cloud-soon-illegal-trump-punches-first-hole-eu-us-data-deal
Sadly, many people I know are staying there instead of figuring Mastodon or Friendica out.
Fun fact: if you mess up captcha verification (due to Internet connection or your human error) during account creation, your account gets instantly suspended and then you receive a shady email that is actually from Bluesky, saying you should send them via email a picture of your ID.
Why not endorse Firefox forks instead?
The conversation in the reddit thread would then be about reddit banning discussion of platforms that apparently threaten theirs
Do note that Substack is US-based and has fash owners.
They’re not meticulous historians though. LGBTQ people were more accepted in the Roman Republic (and in ancient Greek) than today.
“Caius Julius Caesar: husband to all the wives, wife to all the husbands.” was a saying that my Latin professor taught us in school.
Being AMAB and bottom was stigmatized to the point their swearing system revolved around emasculation threats, so that's different from what the queer movement of today aims for...
Not to mention it's going to be common knowledge in 20 years from now that IS was designed by you know who to fuel Islamophobia.
If your own child was on the LGBT+ spectrum and was right now in the US, your take would have been way different.
NPR reported on that whistleblower: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
who gives a fuck if they dont sell in EU
They sell in some countries of the EU, but yeah, they don't serve the entire EU.
I wonder why isn't Friendica more popular by now.