Semmelstulle

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[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 6 points 2 years ago

I agree with all of this, as long as video will be allowed once there is a useable player for it.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Woher kommt eigentlich dieses "Lases" für Reddit?

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

That's because they are very different technologies and approaches. They share the content through ActivityPub but that's mostly it.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

Yes, ProtonMail is really good, I just missed the desktop bridge. It is a reality now but it's not part of the free tier. I can't really complain about them except for the icon design. They do not feel at home on iOS haha
I just have to confess I still use my outlook mail as my main because there is so much legacy stuff connected to it like Xbox games, Minecraft, two movies,... But I use Anon Addy to alias it most of the time. That's why I can't really give you a better impression about the Proton suite

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah Proton and linux gaming will only get better over time. Valve is heavily invested in getting this really good. And regarding the Android experience, I can only tell you that Google keeps trying to cripple the non Google experience even further. They just tried getting rid of Aurora Store and thus of getting Play Store apps without the Play Store. I just hope Aurora can keep operating just as it did until now.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

LineageOS itself is just as private as AOSP and the Google core stack you might flash along it.
I have not found my source yet but once I've read about some Google telemetry within AOSP but that might be less than iOS on default settings sends. With Google core services you will definitely have more data collected on the Android side though.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

EDIT: LONG POST, my opinion are backed on years of interest in the topics as well as first hand experience.

I'll go Windows x Android first:
Windows is a privacy nightmare. You can try and fight it but you can and will break things along the way. So I'll basically advise you to use anything else.
Android in the other hand has some options to flash custom ROMs and thus you can change what's running. But you're stuck with /e/ OS if you want real privacy without giving up on almost everything Google, banking apps, etc. There are other Android forks but most of them focus on security, features, gimmicks, etc. So at least there you have a good amount of control. You can use Android with KDE Connect for actually good cross device features in my personal opinion.

macOS iOS:
These are fully controlled by Apple. Sure, Apple goes hard against 3RD PARTY tracking, but does not tell you you need to switch off 1st party tracking within multiple settings pages (own experience). There have been some reports about macOS sending hashes of photos from a local account with no iCloud login, but that was fixed quickly, even though I've been skeptical. But this video by Techlore actually explains things really good.

MY conclusion?
I'd say the most private would be Android x Linux with KDE Connect.
2nd place is iOS with proper settings x Linux with KDE Connect. (For real, this tool gets you cool cross device sync.)
3rd place would be iOS x macOS both on privacy friendly settings if you, like me, rely on proprietary stuff. Xcode and iOS development can only be done on macOS and thus I'll stick to this combo. Fedora will always have a special place in my heart and on my SSD though.
So which level of these you want to pick definitely come down to how much you rely on what software and what you can afford. I hope I could help.

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I just hope many still stay offline for a longer time to protest. I don't think 2 days will be enough. A but if damage is done but if there will be no 3rd party apps I'm out. I'd pay for Reddit Premium if that would give me a personal API or something

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

They aren't. I can normally use some communities of feddit.de but some (eg vegan@feddit.de) can't even be found by kbin

[–] Semmelstulle@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Do you happen to know why I can not access many explicitly German Lemmy communities? I only could contribute there once I set German as my language on @Semmelstulle. Before that it was like I was blocked.

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