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anothermember ,

Nobody sane wants to "use" it, but sometimes someone will inconsiderately link something on there.

anothermember ,

If sites wanted to run ads and host them locally without tracking that would be fine. But since they're tracking users it's essential to block them for privacy and security, and if someone isn't then maybe they don't understand the level of tracking involved. We need a better name than adblocking.

anothermember ,

Sure, that should be absolutely your choice, it's your browser.

anothermember ,

I can confirm it's greatly improved in terms of reliability in the last couple of years.

anothermember ,

Well FreeTube never claimed to be a platform, it's a fantastic front-end for browsing YouTube videos without having to deal with Google's crap, but you're still using YouTube.

As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

anothermember ,

Just do backups, isn't that easier than using a cloud service?

anothermember ,

These days I use Btrfs snapshots to do incremental backups to an external drive each week, it's manual but it takes less than 5 minutes a week, the most I risk losing is a week of data and I trust it a lot more than relying on some external service that might go down at any time or randomly decide to delete my account. For most people just worried about photos I would assume that's enough, I feel like anything else is just over-engineered.

anothermember ,

This is basically the method I use:

https://fedoramagazine.org/btrfs-snapshots-backup-incremental/

anothermember ,

I find keeping a calendar is useful for remembering routine tasks.

anothermember ,

I strongly believe nuisance advertising should be fought separately from privacy concerns. Both are valid concerns but need a different approach. Advertising based on website visits that collect user data is privacy intrusive, but an ad baked into a YouTube video is probably not (regardless of whether it's annoying or not).

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Remember the first time you used Google search? It was like magic. After years of progressively worsening search quality from Altavista and Yahoo, Google was literally stunning, a gateway to the very best things on the internet.

No, I'm not having that! That's rewriting of history. I remember when Google came out, it was pretty much as good as Altavista and no more. It had the additional appeal that it looked (for the time) unique and fresh and had a weird name, I remember getting my friends to try this "weird new search engine that might someday beat Altavista" but it never revolutionised anything in terms of search results at the time.

Also Altavista was not getting progressively worse, I still remember the days when you could type a simple dictionary word into a search engine and have it return 0 results. Altavista is what changed that, not Google.

What non-FOSS software have you been unable to quit?

For me, Google video search, Google books (Internet Archive is good, but doesn't always have the same stuff), Adobe InDesign (but in the process of learning LaTeX), and Typewise. As for the Google stuff, I liked Whoogle a lot, but almost all their instances seem to have been blocked or shut down. Also, apologies if this is...

anothermember ,

As much as I try to encourage alternatives, most people where I'm from use WhatsApp for everything these days and has been that way for the last ~5 years. I might get about 10 SMS messages a year but possibly thousands of WhatsApp messages.

anothermember ,

Nothing beats just downloading a podcast and listening to it in VLC or you audio player of choice - I don't really understand why podcast apps are needed.

But that said, if you need to use one AntennaPod has all the features and you can even get it on F-Droid.

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The problem is for me that it usually downloads to some obscure folder, not to where I want to save and archive my podcasts.

anothermember ,

If you don't really care about the podcast then that's OK, but if I like a podcast I want a permanent offline copy to relisten to if the podcast goes offline. I guess I'm a bit of a data-hoarder and that's niche, but simply being able to save a file you download to where you want I think should be a standard feature, there's no need for an extra layer of abstraction.

anothermember ,

AntennaPod is one of the better ones but it doesn't beat the good old-fashioned "Save As" where you can put it wherever you like. I don't want a podcast app to manage my files, a file-manager does that.

anothermember ,

I'm not changing folder structure constantly, I just want it somewhere sensible where I can find it.

anothermember ,

It's an unnecessary layer of abstraction that solves a problem that never existed. If you have a lot of podcasts it's nice to be able to organise them in a directory structure that makes sense to you, not necessarily what the app wants. Also podcast file names aren't always easily sortable or even human-readable so you'll want to rename them as you save them.

anothermember ,

Lemmy users be like „I fucking love decentralized freedom“, until someone joins they don’t like.

No, especially when someone joins that we don't like. The ability to defederate is the freedom that comes with decentralisation. If there were no bad actors decentralisation wouldn't be so important.

anothermember ,

I want to be a good enough friend to encourage my friends to stay away from Meta. I don't want to enable them.

anothermember ,

My concern is that the toxic culture from Meta's platforms will be imported here, and the only way to get away from it would be to not only defederate from Meta but to defederate from anything federated to Meta (essentially creating two fediverses). I hope it doesn't come to that, but that's my worry.

anothermember ,

There's a good argument for keeping it small and focused. Massive all-encompassing social networks are relatively new and not a good thing in my opinion.

anothermember ,

It's definitely a nicer experience around here if you block certain instances, I won't mention names myself. The difference is that Meta's instance is big enough to completely drown out everyone else which can't be said about the above.

anothermember ,

Can't say I've noticed myself with FreeTube to be honest, local API, I've been using it for years now and it's probably as good as it's ever been. The fallback for me if it ever doesn't work is yt-dlp.

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