To a degree, it already is business as usual for these firms (look at their underinvestment in IT infrastructure). The issue for the self-hosting community is that not enough of the population is technologically literate enough to understand the risks of using these platforms (insert any Meta/Bytedance/Microsoft/Amazon platform here), and the critical mass of users will remain perpetually vulnerable.

With that being said, for those with the literacy required, self-hosting is a secure breath of fresh air.

Actually it’s not because there are third party clients available that you can use without any interactions with google services. I’m using Clerotri on GrapheneOS right now.

(Selfhosting, not using a model that is not hosted on your own hardware)

Step 1 - don’t use apps on a phone and instead use an appropriate open source sandbox on an actual x86 machine.

The mobile-focused development cycle and its consequences have been a disaster for user agency.

Grayjay does allow you to use an account only for age gate/content gate authentication, so I wonder if there are any burner or public google accounts that could be repurposed for that (junk because multiple people use them)

“I don’t think those were ordinary berries, bro.”

I wonder if that’s because of the microplastic contamination more than the actual salt lol

I should clarify, self hosted Gits for projects that may fall under targeted harassment by corporations (Eaglercraft, Switch Emulators, etc…) are becoming popular.

Ryujinx, operating out of Brazil, couldn’t be taken to court by Nintendo. So a lot of projects that could have Nintendo’s eye of sauron on them are looking for a safe country and self hosting as guaranteed insurance from a Yuzu situation.

Self-hosted gits in a country that doesn’t care are becoming popular.

Go to Ebay, look for switch games, then come back and tell us with a straight face that’s a reasonable market.

Also, tell me the many innovative ways those overpriced glorified android tablets can be upscaled and run games at 60fps without either purchasing the overpriced switch 2 or emulation.

Transparency increases trust, and this is definitely a step in the right direction.

"I’m cringe, and that’s based

I’ll never be based and that’s not cringe

There’s no one I’d rather be

than me."

Exactly.

In the US, issuance of a photo ID is neither guaranteed nor free for all citizens. There is no simple registry for citizens within the US (unless you count the Social Security number which is incredibly flawed). While things such as driver’s licenses and passports serve as defacto identification, they are not universally held by everyone (fees are required for both, not everyone owns a vehicle, not everyone travels internationally). This also applies to home addresses and other proxies for voter identification, since they are generally insufficient in restrictive states.

Additionally, things such as voter roll purges and additional burdens placed on the participant (such as removing mail-in opportunities, since election day is not a holiday) tend to have the effect of excluding voters from participation, especially in lower-income communities who are unable to afford to take time off or go through the additional hurdles.

Throw on top of that the surveillance state apparatus and general distrust from the public regarding further extending our personal lives to the federal government since (and perhaps before) the 2001 Patriot Act, and you can see why a lot of people are not a fan of this push. The Real ID fiasco in the 2010s is a good example of outspoken pushback throughout implementation.

sidenote: a lot of the requirements for registration are put in place by GOP leaders to fuck over democratic party voter bases. An automatic registration system would be awesome, but no red tie would fuckin’ vote for it because it would doom their ability to have selective representation in their districts.

Lemmy is addictive in the same way that attending a routine community center event is addictive - you’re happy to come back and see old and new faces, and contribute towards keeping the conversations going.

If you want to set up a new event (instance/community), you can do it yourself, in your own environment, without external pressure.

I would call Facebook, Reddit, IG, etc… more like a casino. You pull constant refreshes for dopamine hits, are fed a stream of ads and content that ostracises you if you don’t stay with the current trends, and have no control over your personal data or any works you create.

I’d reckon that’s a byproduct of the console standard, no?

We’re slowly snowballing some of them here, luckily :)

Is that the compressed version? Kiwix’s latest copy is roughly 100GB including images.

Not sure if The Finals (Embark’s other game) has a bigger base in oceania or not, but it’s free, proton platinum, and has also some pretty sweet gameplay.

Lol even