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  • Thanks for helping to keep things up and running here. Happy to see this place grow with users and content.

  • Excellent to hear you are creating a new video platform without reliance on google/youtube. I've been trying to switch to odysee and others but still fall back ocassionally on NewPipe and Invidious and other services that rely on youtube when I can't find what I'm after elsewhere.

    I also only use Odysee as a viewer not a content creator so did not realize ID was required on signup.

    Will this new video platform you are working on be decentralized? I understand LBRY got targeted pretty hard in the larger crypto crackdowns and other video streaming alternatives have faced challenges and pressures in the market, legally and otherwise.

    I'd hate to see another great centralized alternative get built up and gain traction and user adoption only to be torn down later on.

  • Right on! Spread the word.

    I've been encouraging everyone I know to de-google and eliminate or minimize reliance on other unsavory big tech players as much as possible. It's an uphill battle, but I've made steady progress with most of them through persistence and assistance with suggestions and support.

    And still learning a lot and trying to form better habits myself as well.

    The more knowledge and resources available to help with that message the better.

  • Congrats on the anniversary for the site. The UI and UX update looks good and works well. The site is very useful and all your contributions to the community are appreciated. Keep up the great work!

  • Per app network permission to enable or disable access by using a toggle would be such a great addition.

  • I'll decide what is misinformation or propaganda for myself. If someone else is limiting what information you can and cannot have or determining what is objectively true for you before you even have exposure to other ideas, everything you "know" is unreliable at best.

  • This is probably the best answer even if you were hoping to solve it via PayPal. Something like Monero, cash in person (or by mail if needed) or money order or something like that are all going to be better than PayPal. Gift cards could also work depending on what and why you are sending funds. Some of those have no ID requirements under certain values and are often just digital codes rather than physical cards. PayPal is far from great in a number of ways, not the least of which is privacy or pseudonimity.

    Most locales have money transmitter laws, so if you are using a third party service rather than something like handing cash over in person, you are typically expected to include identifying information and I'm sure any "workarounds" would be in violation of PayPal's terms of service.

    And in most places I think you are also supposed to do this even for cash over varying threshold amounts, though likely not for the one-off $100 or less amounts you are interested in. This isn't legal advice and all those disclaimers, blah blah blah.

  • The Microsoft trackers issue is bad and they eventually had to address it due to the backlash, but that's not the only issue.

    They also began explicitly censoring search results and information. Regardless of any given persons stance on any particular issue, things like censoring or downranking particular results or labeling content mis, dis or mal information means an entity like DDG is acting as an arbiter of truth and limiting the information users have access to rather than acting as a tool for users to utilize in searching for info and presenting any and all viewpoints, allowing the user to make up their own mind.

    https://reclaimthenet.org/duckduckgo-down-ranking-russian-disinformation

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  • I agree, we need more peaceful noncompliance. Simply getting a small but significant percentage of the population to opt out of or ignore unjust systems and unjust laws would be a great starting point to standing in the way of bad policy and infringements on liberty.

    Your point is a strong one, that having the tools available is a great first step, and now greater adoption and use by the general public is required.

    Keep encouraging friends family and acquaintances to take the first steps on a larger journey away from those compromised corporate products and hopefully the needle will continue to move more significantly.

  • This sounds like a great project on its face. I'm excited to follow along and see how it progresses.

  • Fair enough, I can see that it is a bit off topic. I'll do that now.

  • In addition to the great recommendations already provided by others, like localmonero, you may have crypto ATMs in your area that have lower kyc requirements than the major centralized exchanges. Probably depends where you live and what is available, but then you can convert to XMR using atomic swaps or some of the instant exchanges recommended in the sidebar or at kycnot.me

  • I'd second this recommendation. It still seems to be the best way to onramp from fiat without mandatory kyc depending on the listing.

  • This is great, thanks. Love how things are evolving here. Getting better every time I visit.

  • There is truth to that. I'm happy to move it if others feel it's not on topic here. Not sure how to do that though. Brand new to Lemmy and still getting the hang of it.

  • That's very true, but most organizations that do not intend to hand over the data, silently or otherwise, have more resources to oppose or fight seizures and other targeting both before it occurs and after the fact. From legal teams to concrete policies formed in advance, they've typically cleared some of the hurdles just by nature of forming a business and a plan for it. I suspect that most fediverse implementations at this point are individual users or smaller groups, which are more vulnerable and easily targeted.

    I also suspect many people simply haven't thought of the things mentioned in the article and think it's good for those developing and using these communities just to be aware of what the article mentions so they can keep it in mind for opsec, development, use or whatever else.

    making sure you have your users’ backs should be a founding principle for every server in the fediverse.

    This line alone is worth it to hammer home what I think should be a principle that distinguishes communities and services like this from the big tech players like Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, et al. There are strengths and weaknesses to each different approach, and I'd love to see Lemmy and the Fediverse reach the full potential they are capable of so they can survive and thrive.