Honesty

Do not try to deceive people. Always tell the truth, even if it’s uncomfortable.

I am worried by how many people in this thread shit their pants often enough to be able to answer the question.

I also have Ahinsa shoes and they’re great.

Creators who care about privacy should not support Google’s monopoly by using YouTube as their platform of choice.

Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.

This, but unironically.

By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

SourceHut encourages an e-mail–based workflow that does not require anyone but the repository owner to have an account. In fact, that’s how Git originally worked before GitHub enshittified it.

How would decentralization work for an issue tracker? The issues have to be stored somewhere.

I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.

But you can’t view Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

Does that also mean I should not browse any websites I don’t already know? That’s very limiting.

Is there anything bad that can happen if you just click a link without logging in or anything? How is it different from opening up a random search result?

My Android phone (Realme) allowed me to uninstall most pre-installed bloatware.

You still have the freedom to not use alternative app stores.

Walled gardens are not good for anyone.

Or the people at Microsoft could learn to read. While that takes more than a minute, it can also be useful for other purposes.

Use the NewPipe app or one of its forks. It shows only videos from your subscriptions.

That’s how it’s being used, yeah. But ideally it shouldn’t be.

Moderation is when you take down material because the recipient doesn’t want to see it. Censorship is when you take down content because you don’t want the recipient to see it, regardless of how the recipient feels about it. If people think censorship is sometimes justified, they should argue that, and not muddle the picture with moderation.

Since when are literally all rich people violent criminals?