pretty cheap relatively speaking, and usually a lot more flexible depending on what you use.

You have to do a lot of work. You would have to keep up on what domains it’s using (which were in the dozens four years ago for samsung), and make sure it doesn’t use some as kill switches if it finds something blocked.

We aren’t stopping just ads, we are stopping spying, data sharing, snooping, network mapping, etc.

Its even easier to never let it on the network.

LinkedIn is not, nor ever was a social business networking site. It’s a data mining and harvesting site that recently added AI training data to the mix.

It is mind boggling that people use it, even before microsoft bought it for data mining, it was going through the users emails.

Avoid.

Its always been this way. Never said hello in the first place. But good to see people waking up to it.

If you are talking about using Linux on a desktop, then use DigiKam for photo management. It is far more advanced, because it is a desktop application and been around a lot longer.

You could have a workflow of a desktop environment AND immich on the server for the best of what they both offer.

Want to mention some? I have no containers using that at all.

Perhaps you never clean up as you move forward? It’s easy to forget to prune them.

It will if you enter them.

Street complete is easy to use, really. It’s a great way to contribute and spend a little time when you are waiting in line or for a friend. It asks: is this pavement? What are the open hours of this building? Just simple easy questions in an easy to use application made for a mobile device.

Well yeah. Plastic isn’t really recyclable it’s all been a scam.

I am at the point where you tube is now a rare choice. I am tired of the stupid games and adblock and trying to not log in.

Fuck it, I can do without.

That is a long list of things I never noticed. Funny that. I use both often, they seem the same to me, must be features that just dont matter to me.

I have betterbird on my laptop and Thunderbird on my desktop. Honestly I don’t really notice a difference at all.

I am going to have to re read what is different.

Yeah I am sure some people do that. But I wouldn’t. Some people eat dirt too.

And you have a weird world view if you think being social is leaving posts on a forum to reply to some rando you will never know.

Yeah. Don’t care. Won’t use it. It’s that easy.

Same for Instagram. Not doing something is easy.

Annonymity is extremely important. I don’t know you, you don’t know me. Nothing I say matters, nothing you say matters. There is no tone, no personality, just words. You could be a liar or a bot, it makes zero difference.

That isn’t very social at all.

I disagree. Billions are being made, data centers and AI machines are being built that use the electricity that could power 50 million homes, and that is Meta ALONE. Your tattoo artist and musicians are perpetuating it. Oh well, they don’t need my business. I don’t support people that do that.

If people keep saying “but I have to”, then fuck it, meta won.

No. There is no valid reason to use it. All this does is continue to enable a massive AI data center and Zuckerbergs billions. Walking away is the only viable option. It needs to go away, stop helping it remain.

Edit: Why would any one argue with this? Unless you are a billionaire, use of this shit is hurting you. Your environment, AI slop, your politics for fucks sake. Continued use is making your life worse for the sake of a handful of people enriching themselves from it, and you don’t care?

No. I am reading an aggregation forum, and getting clarity and insights from the comments. I barely am interacting with anyone.

Look, this term didn’t even exist until the mid 90’s and didn’t take off in common use until the mid 2000’s.

The difference is Lemmy is topic centered thread first, discussion last, where social media is basically a self publishing, identity first platform. People put shit on instagram and facebook because it is about them (mostly). Here it is just news/stories with comments. And anonymity, which is what makes it all work.

I consider everyone here the same way I did when I was on a bbs: they are liars. Modern twist: they are liars and bots. Everyone is bullshitting and saying whatever they want, this is hardly a social event.