That was the first instance out there, so amany early adopter communities are hosted there. I’ve blocked a handful problematic users and all the communist stuff and other topics I don’t agree with or care about, but by and large it’s alright.

Hexbear.net and lemmygrad.ml are instances I’ve blocked altogether.

Nextcloud is federated? First time I hear about that.

For me it’s Lemmy, without a doubt. Never used Twitter, tried mastodon to see what it’s all about, didn’t like it.

Matrix seems decent, but nobody I know uses it, and finding useful groups is painful, especially on other instances (servers, whatever they call them).

Have a look at gullo.me, their entry level vps was just $2 or something.

Edit: https://hosting.gullo.me/pricing (apparently the cheapest is $3.5 - annually)

Most countries don’t have opt out options.

Wait, aren’t you allowed to receive your salary in cash? As long as your employer deducts your income tax and social security contributions accordingly, there is nothing illegal about this procedure. It’s uncommon for sure, but not impossible.

I’m using a browser setup hardened against fingerprinting, block all known trackers, and cookies are barred from cross-site activity.

Might not be impossible to track me regardless, but at least I’m not giving them everything with a chef’s kiss on top.

I’ve tested kagi and agree that the search results are great. What I don’t like is that it’s making anonymous searching impossible, since I have to be logged in to use it (or use my unique token as part of the url for mobile searches).

Ultimately this means to me that in a private window mode (or even logged out with a fingerprinting resistant browser) I do not have the same degree of anonymity I enjoy even when using Google, let alone DDG or others.

I like the idea of not being dependent on google, but exposing my entire search history to one single entity is not my answer of choice.

And that’s the reason why I don’t use it, I need specific websites that access my local time, and apparently whitelisting is not a thing.

Yeah Douyin is pushing educational content and is very fast to censor harmful stuff. Still full of garbage and racism though, just the sanctioned kind against people the government doesn’t like.

I’m using a VPN almost permanently, never had any issues there.

Are you sure it’s lemmy.world and not cloudflare or something?

Yeah and I don’t like the inconsistency. If they include the continuation of Scrubs, they should have done the same with Dexter.

🍟+ 🧀 + 🥃 maybe? I guess it’s supposed to be a whiskey tumbler, but it looks close enough in color…

Damn, I wanted to make exactly the same joke.

Without context, that comment sounds ok to me?

This is very good for the health of the fediverse, .ml is home to too many good communities for such a removed instance. Hopefully now more of the mainstream communities on other instances will get more traction, so that we can block .ml and not miss out.

Yeah no idea why. Would be trivial to add it to the context menu where you can block the user, hide post etc.

I think the web front-end doesn’t, but most clients do. No idea why they are making a feature available through the api that they don’t use themselves, but that’s what it is.

My client of choice is Sync, but really most of them do the trick.

You can easily moderate communities on remote instances, all you need to do is leave a comment there, and then the existing moderator has a “make moderator” in the context menu below your username.

This can’t currently be done through any app, only in the web front-end.

In case the community is de facto unmoderated, you’d have to contact the admins of the instance. Or alternatively, create a community with the same name on your home instance and leave a comment in that community informing them and hope some will follow.

Tankies gonna tank. Just block their removed instance and move on with your life.

Can’t be bothered, tiktok is cancer, and I don’t need an alternative.