I don’t know how to make PeerTube bigger, but I don’t see a better option for the Internet’s future than fediverse.
Only option I see in the foreseeable future is odyssee (a good sized but still not big youtube alt) gets wildly popular, gets a load of market shareholders, and worries enough about public image to kick the nazi punks off.
Or dailymotion dials back some of its restrictions. Either or
Then Google deleted my email
That’s the scariest part.
It honestly sounds like a relief for someone that wants to exit the google ecosphere.
Not if that email is important
I started migrating away from gmail at the start of the year. Next is Android. I’m do e with Google. Wish there was something else like YouTube tho.
I moved to NewPipe. No ads, can import yt playlists and subscriptions so you don’t have to start over, and it plays in the background or when the phone screen is off
Me too, but you’re still using YouTube. I think op means something like peertube
For email you should also get your own domain. So it’s much easier to move to another email provider when you inevitably need to migrate again.
I’m currently migrating to Proton mail. It’s comlicated because I have nearly 25 years of gmail use, using it for everything requiring an email address.
I migrated off of Proton Mail, they have no way to access your calendar from outside Proton’s apps and web services, you can’t access Proton Drive on Linux (and the workarounds never worked for me), and you need to keep running their decryptor tool if you want to use an email client other than their mail client.
Email is inherently insecure, zero knowledge encryption is worth nothing when 99% of your emails are being sent and received in plaintext. I’m on Fastmail now.
I often find the need for Proton’s encrypted email to be sonewhat dubious when Proton can’t (or won’t) fight secret court orders to collect logs on users. At the very least it means I typically don’t use a protonmail account more than once before signing up for a new one.
Agreed, and these rarely come anyway because most of the time, the US courts can simply subpoena Google or Microsoft for access to the interlocutor’s sent and received emails, this only really occurs with Proton to Proton communication, which I have personally never done as no one I know uses Protonmail.
Bref, better off just GPG signing and encrypting your emails and using a different provider. US courts can’t decrypt your mail more just because they subpoena’d it
Please explain to me how Fastmail is more secure if you can easily set up any client without encryption? Or am I missing something? And when Fastmail sends or receives email, isn’t it also sent in plain text because of the SMTP protocol anyway?
It’s not. Proton’s “security” is mostly pointless and induces a huge hassle if you’d like to use anything else than the web client.
As you said, both Proton and any other mail client send mail in TLS encrypted plain text over SMTP unless also encrypted using PGP/GPG (or conversing with another Proton user in the case of Proton Mail).
Fastmail is just a much nicer email provider IMO, and I can consume emails / calendar / files using third party clients. There’s also Tuta and other mail providers, I’m just warning you to maybe steer clear of Proton unless you intend to use Proton-specific features, as usability greatly suffers.
Ideally, I’d pick an email provider with data sovereignty in Canada, but short of self-hosting (which isn’t a great idea with email), there are basically no decent options.
I’m already migrating all my shit to Proton and it’s fine for me, so I won’t change providers again unless something really bad happens.
Also, data sovereignty in Canada isn’t much better than in the U.S. I’d rather have my stuff stored in a place with better privacy rights than Canada.
Fair enough, YMMV, and yeah I would probably prefer my data in Europe rather than Canada, but Canada is a good start.
Before going all in on Proton, just make sure you’re okay with the ceo’s statements on politics. To some people its enough to not switch over, to others its unfortunate but the product is too good not to switch, to others that encourages them to switch so… 🤷
Just wanted to make sure you were at least aware of his political stance before fully migrating.
Yes the CEO is an idiot for having said that one statement once about supporting a Trump appointed candidate and doubling down on what he said. But he didn’t donate to anyone’s campaign, he didn’t donate to any PACs or any other political organization. He doesn’t actively support Trump other than that one time. And he’s committed to protecting my privacy at all costs. On top of that, their line or services is one of the most complete next to Google.
Honestly it’s not that big a deal compared to Google that financed Trump’s campaign and it’s CEO actually being present at his inauguration, executing his every order, and being zionist enablers and pro-genocide, doing deals with Isreal to provide all kinds of services and spreading their propaganda on their platform and erasing all evidence of said genocide.
I mean… I’m not defending google here, just making sure you were aware of the situation. And you are.
It’s 2025, at this point people really need to understand that YouTube is not your friend and doesn’t exist to further your cause.
It’s a money making outfit not a means to social change. All of its incentives only allow it to try and make money at all costs.
At this point you need to host your own shit or suffer the whims of those who do.
I got shadowbanned by Reddit after nearly 20 years on the platform. No justification given. No response to appeal.
Yes.
And this is why open platforms matter.
I’m guessing Israel is sending bogus copyright strikes over content that they dislike, taking advantage that YouTube is 100% run by bots with no way to contact a human supervisor
Ars has an article on this where it is confirmed that this is YouTube bowing to Trump and his sanctions of these groups due to their work with the ICC against Netanyahu.
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fuck google. they have been forcing me to degoogle everyday more and more for the last 5 years. they deleted my gmails and locked me forever repeatedly. I wish there was a reasonable priced phone to ditch android store as well. I have a big disgusting family that is draining me out every penny I could earn; I can’t afford a $1000 phone for myself though it’s been on my wishlist for over a year
yet people keep going back to craptube and not supporting any new platforms
You can’t post the videos Hamas records of their own deeds on YouTube either.
Youtube really isn’t the place for these types of videos, no matter what side you are on. Gruesome videos of any sort is against their guidelines.
They belong on news websites, not some social media for entertainment.
Of course deleting their mailbox is a no go.
