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I disagree: https://gist.github.com/joepie91/5a9909939e6ce7d09e29

For most people a VPS would be cheaper and meet their actual needs.

A small suggestion, only because using monthly prices sometimes makes things seem even cheaper than they are. Change it from $Monthly Cost to $Monthly Cost ($Annual Cost). For example instead of $11/mo for Apple Music it would be $11 ($132) and instead of $33 it would be $33 ($396).

Doing this caused me to re-evaluate a number of monthly subscriptions I had, find cheaper (sometimes even free/"good enough") alternatives. Other times it would make me realize I should update annual charges if it was available if it was something I planned to keep around anyway and the annual price was a good enough deal. It also causes you to re-evaluate which price tier you pay for. Like for Nitro - do you really need the extra perks for $84/yr or do you only actually care about emotes and slightly larger file uploads and the $3/mo Basic package would be good enough? Often times people go "Oh it's only $7/mo difference anyway" and get the better package but don't actually use the extra features they're paying for.

Please educate yourself on Tankies. They're a bunch of fascist genocide apologists that are quite literally as bad as Nazis. Similar hateful ideology, just as fascist, same tactics of mass genocide, and they believe they are morally correct in anything they do because they're anti-Capitalism and anti-Western nations.

It's a little more than "liking Stalin". Genocide is merely a means to an end in an effort to establish a Socialist nation and as long as it is helping progress towards a Socialist state then it is morally correct to do so in their world view.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_fascism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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Tiananmen Square massacre? Never happened - that's Western propaganda.

The Uyghur genocide? Not a genocide - the Uyghur are religious extremists and deserve to be imprisoned. Please stop listening to Western propaganda.

Holodomor? More Western propaganda that never happened.

Hong Kong? They need to stop being children and accept that Hong Kong is part of China. The protests are anti-China propaganda being paid for by the US and Britain to make China look bad.

Russia is defending itself from Ukraine aggression and like always - Western nations are quick to interfere and turn it into anti-Russia propaganda.

Lemmy also has an issue of being developed and flagship instances ran by unironic Tankies. People are a lot slower to clue in on Tankies than Neo-Nazis because for some reason denying genocides as a hoax and Western propaganda works for Tankies in a way that denial of the Holocaust as a hoax and Jewish propaganda doesn't work for Nazis. It's funny because if the devs were Nazis nobody would touch Lemmy with a 20 foot pole. People are a lot more ignorant of Tankies and there is a big excuse of "So what? Just make your own Lemmy instance if it bothers you isn't that the point of Federation?" that wouldn't exist if the devs were Neo-Nazis rather than Tankies.

As long as they can closely control the narrative and keep the .ml (Marxist-Leninist) instances as the larger/flagship communities they'll hold sway over their part of their part of the Fediverse and can surround themselves with people who are as radical as they are or open to being radicalized. Those who control the trunk control the branches.

I don't know anything about ernest and I consider that a good thing because that means they don't already have a bad reputation as a political extremist. Which made Kbin the easy choice to make between the two federation alternatives to Reddit.

Accidentally posted too soon - wanted to touch on this bit.

Right now that’s what I’m doing but there’s always the looming fear of anything I buy being taken away if the service gets shut down.

Never trust a company to remain solvent. Always own your data and always own any media you care to own. They can revoke your right to view the media at any time - or they may lose rights to broadcast media. Very few companies last 20-30+ years, especially internet companies and when they inevitably shutdown you'll lose access to all of your data/media. Always keep local copies unless you don't care if you lose it or not.

I use a combination of Jellyfin (Video), Beets (Audio), Hydrus (images), and finally Obsidian (text files/notes).

Everything is extensively and accurately tagged. I'm a digital hoarder because I don't trust anyone to keep content available for any length of time. If I like something - I download it and tag it. I may only look at it once 7 years later but I'll be glad I did because 7 years later it doesn't even exist outside of my local copy or is much more difficult to find.

Some time over a decade ago a popular file host shut down and took a huge chunk of content with it - not only mine but a ton of bookmarks I had to other people's content. This made me realize the importance of having local backups of anything I care about or wish to share/reference at some point in the future. So now I operate my own file host and digitally hoard everything and anything that I might care about.