For self-hosting, be mindful IP addresses have reputation scores and your IP needs to build them up positively. You need to have reverse DNS set, DKIM, SPF records etc for a more trusted reputation, domain reputation etc to not be flagged and sent to spam folders. I just got the $1/month Proton E-Mail for 10 addresses for 1 custom domain as I didn't feel like dealing with any of this with self hosting, but props for going the self-hosting route.

No no no, you want Linux desktop. Install Oracle VirtualBox and play with the different linux desktop distros and find the right one that's best for you. It's fun. It's not filled with spyware and adware and isn't bloated with Microsoft's crazy antics. And, it's free. Once it's installed check out this: https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle to de-herpes your internet experience and 👍

Agreed. It's a form of cyber terrorism and needs to have an end put to it.

Not our problem. They can go the twitch.tv'ish way and add subscription models for people to subscribe and support their favorite content producers and Youtube can take a cut.

Just because they can't think of a profitable business model other than annoying and exploiting the internet's userbase while deplatforming, demonetizing and having their own myriad of problems doesn't mean that's on us.

Doesn't mean you're simping. You have a valid point, but when's enough enough when they're squeezing everything out of us for ad revenue and finding new ways to fuck with our psyche/psychological things like Facebook does with its highest paid employee(s) to rake in attention for cost-per-click and cost-per-view? We're more than just 'metrics' and KPIS. We're humans, we deserve joy. If youtube dies, there's decentralized solutions out there that can become more mainstream. People can self-host and host their own content.

And dancing desktop buddies with 350 tray icons.

That's unfortunately just how the internet is/works. It's all links and links to each other. Check out https://archive.is and https://archive.ph - Maybe we can build a decentralized archive thing based on IPFS or something

$ pwgen -s -1 32

Yess yesssss let the linux flow throughhhh youuuuuuu. Manjaro XFCE here. Play with the distros in Oracle Virtual Machines and find the right one for you. Linux desktop is seriously worth the effort. Check out Yakuake as a Quake style drop down terminal to get to hacky stuff. Learn everything about Linux. It's fun!

Should have right clicked and hit 'inspect element' and changed it from 20 to 32487839423 then entered it. Bet it would have worked because, you know HTML hackers.

I never moved away from ini I've just been sititng back watching you all re-invent the wheel over and over and over and over and over.

It's not as hard as you'd think. https://github.com/tycrek/degoogle - This has everything you need. Definitely use Firefox. Check out Nextcloud for personal cloud/documents replacement etc. Definitely try a small PC hooked to your TV and look in to plex. Don't use Google/Bing, stick with DuckDuckGo and if you need to, use !g or !b in your searched on ddg to get bing and google results. It's fun exploring all the alternatives in the list.

After all the price gouging gains and PPP loans going to lining the pockets of owners buying themselves ferraris, let's up it to 85%. They'll manage. Since corporations are people, they can just pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Not our problem.

Absolutely not our problem. They can come up with other business models. Maybe they can resurrect one of the hundreds of projects/business models from them at https://killedbygoogle.com/ and run with that

Honestly not sure why anybody gives two fucks about celebrities anyways, some are okay but the underground scene has the realist people, because they live in the real world. Seeing through the illusions that what people think or believe in regards to some highly regarded opinions because somebody is popular due to 'pop culture' is a blessing. I say let Elon Musk have them. I'm not going to read it. Only twitter I read is the twitter cross-post spam of screenshots people post.

Zuckerberg telling us all what we already knew about being pressured to censor COVID, Hunter Biden, and whatever other posts goes to show left is evil, right is swinging around monkey bars like school children. Social media is a giant playground where everybody's being swayed by their emotions and being tricked and lead around likes horses.

It's crazy.

At least Elon's having fun with it all.

Yeah... technology just isn't there yet for mozilla. Good idea though, just not feasible. Best they can do are chatbots.

Not our problem. Adtech is cyber warfare. They can find new business models not designed to exploit nor control us.

We need to stop depending on Big Tech giants like AWS, Google, Microsoft. I personally hope it breeds new innovation.

Then hide it encrypted in an image upload or some other packet. Listen for 'buy a ' encrypt its text version, wait for something to cargo it with in a data transmission so people looking at data transmissions aren't any the wiser, hide it in some obscure way that would look normal otherwise, it's intercepted, sends off to advertisers. Adtech is cyber terrorism.

Just what we need! Chatbots in our browser which should be left to extensions, while we have chatbots in our operating sytstems so we can write chatbot shit in our blog posts, tweets, e-mails, business documents, presentations, for other chat bots to comment on and share with other chat bots, to be re-analyzed, siphoned, 'Learned' chewed up, digested in to another mega chatbot and then shit out in to another chatbot.ai domain for $49.99 a month.

Chatbots.. All the way through.

That is cool! Right on. It's all about making good memories and being able to enjoy the good memories and share them, that's pretty awesome. Definitely qualifies as cool in my books, thanks!