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Cake day: February 26th, 2021

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  • Yes why does nobody use voicemails? I never get it. Same number calls me 3x over the course of a week - brother if you can’t even leave a message for me to call you back or pick up the next time it can’t be that important.

    Nowadays I use call screening on every call unless I know the person. If they say their name and what they want, it shows on my screen and I pick up if I’m interested. But most don’t do that and hang up as soon as the voice starts. Eh, write me an email then, I’m not gonna respond if you can’t even say your name.




  • For me it’s API usage for the most part.
    When they locked the API, I was even fine with paying a bit, so I subscribed to Relay Pro. But now I got a degoogled phone, so I can’t use my play store subscription anymore, and don’t want to fiddle with cracked APKs or patching either.
    The original reddit app is a nightmare to use so… that’s why I’m here lol

    (Freedom, privacy and decentralization are awesome too, obviously. But I’m gonna be honest, I probably wouldn’t have switched - at least not fully - if it wasn’t for having an app that works well for me.)





  • I’m probably quite biased being German myself, but I feel like that things like privacy and security tend to be more important to Germans than to other folks. And I don’t speak just about the tech bubble, it shows everywhere.

    To give a random example, when a license plate has been blurred in a photo posted anywhere, chances are high it’s been posted by a German. Despite the fact that there is no license plate lookup (like carfax for US, finnik.nl for Netherlands, car.info for Sweden etc) so a license plate wouldn’t even reveal anything to anyone, yet we treat it like a secret on instinct. If you ask such a German why he blurred it, he probably won’t have a reasonable response, he just does it because he feels like it.
    (Edit: Just look through the used cars here, most if not all will have their plates censored given they have plates on them lol)

    Getting back to topic, this might not be the only explanation, but I’m pretty sure it’s a noticable factor why Germans are especially present on platforms like this, i.e. platforms that tend to respect the user’s privacy more than the big tech corporations.





  • Yeah, I assume if they took down Wikipedia itself then hundreds of copies would pop up all over the place, probably hosted elsewhere, and one of them would become the primary replacement over time.
    Media might be lost to some extent, but I doubt there’s any way you can take the text/information/metadata off the internet at all, and that’s the most important aspect.