Lemmy could be compared to the comment section on news sites or YouTube, with the added advantage of allowing for more interaction between users in threads that are more structured
This also means that phones need to be connected to the internet at all times, downloading stuff in the background… users are giving up control at an alarming rate
It’s the equivalent of owning random crap in your house you never use, except it’s not in your own private space, but occupying public space that can’t be used by other people anymore since someone already “claimed” it, just because they had too much money to waste (and no social responsibility at that)
IT’S A TRAP! But it’s a good example to unmask the shadiness of subscription models in general:
Once you fall for it, the scammers latch on & are hard to get rid of again.
What they’re selling here is basically a SaaS, since the earbuds simply stop working as soon as you stop paying (I doubt they got it settled legally though).
I'm using Signal, but after I found out that it's not as privacy-friendly as it claims, I'm uneasy about sharing my address there. I trust the person who asked for my address, but not the service. What's a safe way to share? I was thinking of something like a self-destructing pastebin, but surely you have better ideas.
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