3 month? I've been getting 2 year old posts as Hot.

Mastodon is a viable option, but then again, this app does some basic automatic account creation from existing FB data and follow people from it. This alone will impress some non-tech journalist and praise it. We have become too lazy to get out of the burning house and save our life.

I wonder if any of that break some GPDR or California Data laws.

The database if still out there, go get it. Put it in our preferred torrent client and keep it. magnet:?xt=urn:btih:ulfihylx35oldftn7qosmk6hkhsjq5af

I had a good hearty laugh thanks to your comment.

From what I understand, yes that's part of it. Admins can initiate this process too, but idk how they do it. Good on your taking the initative.

If only I had a phone with SD card slot.

And it happens again, different posts

Finally a protest with no end in sight. I hope more subreddits join for this to have an impact.

You guys are still using the same email?

Saving this for when I need to explain to people the differences.

Reddit black out needs to keep going. Reddit communities should move to Lemmy or kbin. All reddit communities are self moderated by the people who love their selective communities.

There is no need to scum to a company that cares more about making a buck than to the people that make reddit, reddit.

Lemmy is the new reddit.

I'm going with the flow for now, the bean flow lol

Don't call me out like this 😂

Well, the people have spoken 😂

It is what it is 😂

Have a look at Techlore's VPN comparison matrix, they do a decent making it easy to understand and compare various VPN's

If having browser history on helps you use it, I think it shouldn't be a huge issue. I have been using mullvad browser the way I use Firefox focus on the phone. Quick searches for stuff or just browsing casually.

I have a separate Firefox browser for personal stuff.

Thanks to this list, I saved a minute.

I'll add to all this excellent advice by emphasising on keeping good offline backups and up-to-date backups of everything, especially password manager, 2FA seed code and any recovery codes/keys/phrase (if kept outside of your password manager).

Keep backups off-site too. Have a plan for the wosrt case.

Edit: formatting.

Use Mastodon or any decentralised platform responsibly is the way, in my opinion. If you can run your own instance, that will likely lead to better control over your data but does't mean others servers won't see it. that is the nature of these platforms by design.

Don't put trust in anyone for it. When you make an account, go through the settings and adjust them based on what you are comfortable with. Use an alias name and email, of course. opt out of search engine appearances, or even social graph. Hide people you follow and that follow you. Adjust the settings of each post based on what it is as well.

End of the day, you will need to trust the person running the instance to do good enough management of the infrastructure. Use a server with active and transparent admin and it's not too large to manage for them.