• Superheavy@lemmy.world
    5·
    2 days ago

    I am becoming convinced I should migrate my private mail to another service hosted within the EU. But my god do I not want to deal with migrating mail.

    • lepinkainen@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 day ago

      It’s a process.

      You just create a new address (or point your existing one to the new provider) and slowly migrate

      I degoogled my crap 5-6 years ago and I still have a handful of sites sending mail to my @gmail address because they don’t allow changing your address at all 😆

  • kreskin@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 days ago

    Americans probably should have boycotted American products back when Europe put consumer data safeguards in and the US government refused to. Our food safety, our work life, our online data, our health care-- all driven by profit motive in the US but protected as rights in Europe.

    • InternetCitizen2@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 days ago

      Libertarian ideas are quite popular in the US; we are waiting for the invisible hand of the market to save us. Learned helplessness at its best.

    • Obi@sopuli.xyz
      2·
      2 days ago

      These brands all still follow all those rules when they operate in Europe, they just don’t bother on the other side. Like we get snicker bars and whatever, but they’re just slightly healthier or at least don’t contain stuff that’s actively bad for you, but they’re still shit if that’s all you eat. The usual example is Fanta where the difference is really stark.

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    52·
    3 days ago

    This is misinformation. BlueSky is not a non profit. It is a public benefit company. The shareholders still expect profit.

    • kerrigan778@lemmy.world
      4·
      3 days ago

      The shareholders expect growth and therefore increase in the value of their investment, public benefit companies are however under no obligation to their shareholders to pass on profits to shareholders in the form of dividends. It’s definitely not a non-profit either though, it’s a different structure.

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        Plenty of “regular” for profit companies focus on increasing share value by investing profits back into the company instead of paying out dividends. That doesn’t really mean anything.

        Edit: I see what you mean based on what I said. They expect a return on investment is a better way to phrase it.

  • underscore_@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    2 days ago

    The right hand column for “Drinks” can just be tap water barring a few exceptions water in Europe is clean and safe as well as being delicious in some countries!

  • redacted2@lemmy.world
    683·
    3 days ago

    Bluesky has to be running a massive propaganda push. I see so many lies saying they are decentralized or like here saying they are a non-profit.

    This shit is evil. Whoever is making these fliers is not being honest.

    • Caveman@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      It’s basically filling the void the Xitter transition created. Either way, we got a massive boost in the decentralised space.

    • MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca
      145·
      3 days ago

      It’s more important to get people off twitter. Mastodon just doesn’t have the right pull right now.

      • samus12345@lemm.eeEnglish
        211·
        3 days ago

        Regardless, flat-out lying and saying that Bluesky is non-profit is a bad look.

        • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee
          6·
          3 days ago

          I agree.

          Taking sides in a war kerfuffle between billionaires that don’t care about you is just weird nonsense.

          Go as fossy as possible and support your devs directly.

      • grysbok@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
        9·
        3 days ago

        Shout-out to Sharkey! We’re young, hip and have reactions other than “heart”. Plus, we can talk to Mastodon instances and it all just works. Ever thought what your social network needed was unlockable achievements? We’ve got that, too!

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          1 day ago

          Neat - any public instances accepting registrations?

          btw lil formatting quirk on Safari iOS (maybe just appropriate punishment 😉) if y’all know who has edit access

        • Enkrod@feddit.org
          3·
          2 days ago

          You made me look up Sharkey and create a Sharkey account, just letting you know you had some impact.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    474·
    3 days ago

    There are so many issues with this, lots of wrong information, recommendations of stuff that’s bad and really shouldn’t be recommended and stuff that really should be there isn’t. Please don’t share it this further, it’s absolutely shit.

      • endeavor@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        It gets very obvious when it reccomends basically just volkswagens and volkswagen rebadges under cars.

    • Jhex@lemmy.world
      104·
      3 days ago

      “Oh no this is wrong”… proceeds to shit on it, not provide a single example or correction

      • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
        1·
        2 days ago

        Home to Go is just a search engine for VRBO, which is a US company owned by Expedia. It is not a replacement for Airbnb, nor does it stop supporting US companies.

        • Jhex@lemmy.world
          1·
          3 days ago

          I’m not in it but I have been told it’s almost impossible to control the narrative as Muskrat does on Twitter

          It is held by a benefit corporation which means they have to, at least pretend, to bring some societal benefit

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            5·
            3 days ago

            While AT Protocol is sort of federated in a sense, no one really runs aggregators (which serves half of the role an instance does in ActivityPub) besides BlueSky themselves, so they can still control it if they wanted to.

            Also, “normal” for profit companies can also pretend to want to bring good to the world. It’s misinformation because public benefit companies are allowed to collect a profit (post says non profit).

            I still believe BlueSky is world’s better than Twitter! But it’s important to be honest about it.

  • 9point6@lemmy.world
    85·
    3 days ago

    This list seems a bit flawed, for instance on the travel line, Trivago is owned by Expedia in the US and Booking is headquartered in Amsterdam.

    Also including BlueSky seems a little odd given the intent

    • MimicJar@lemmy.world
      211·
      3 days ago

      Re Bluesky I did some “I am not a lawyer” digging.

      Bluesky is owned by “Bluesky Social PBC”, a Public Benefit Company registered in Delaware.

      Generally speaking it means when decisions about the company are made, they must take into account how that decision benefits their stated public value. I struggled to find the specific value wording, but let’s assume it’s a reasonable one for the time being.

      Unfortunately being a PBC is basically voluntary, especially when you’re still a private company. You can become a non-PBC with a simple board vote. (A public company would require a stockholder vote.)

      Bluesky’s board consists of four members, one of which is Bain Capital, aka the company funding Bluesky.

      So Bluesky is absolutely a better alternative to Twitter. If everyone left Twitter and moved to Bluesky that would be a monumental improvement.

      However Bluesky is not a non-profit company, as the above graphic states.

    • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
      1·
      2 days ago

      Trivago isn’t completely “owned” by Expedia, but Expedia does own a majority of the company stock. Its headquarters are in Germany, and 100% of its employees are there.

      Booking.com is 100% owned by Priceline, a US company. They also have a long string of international controversies.

  • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
    81·
    2 days ago

    The buy Canadian Facebook group if you Facebook is full of great alternatives. Yes Facebook sucks the rigid cock of Satan, but it is very useful.