I just want to say the only reason I didn’t donate sooner were:

1. I needed a friendly reminder (the lemmy post was that reminder for me) because life got busy
2. I didn’t know that Lemmy didn’t already generate enough to cover the costs of two developers

I couldn’t be happier to donate! The work you’re doing is amazing! It’s helped me kick my 15 year long reddit addiction & reminded me of the original promise of the Internet

As a trans person please stop. You’re not helping & are being underhandedly misogynistic.

You need to stay away from feminism and enby activism entirely until you’ve humbled yourself and seriously sat with how problematic this take is.

You’re not helping anybody with that. Least of all enbies/trans people. And not just because it makes us look bad either, though that’s certainly part of it.

I’m sorry, what?

It’s women-centered because it’s “against patriarchy”… not because it’s witchy. And they are trans & queer inclusive as well.

Please tell me more about myself, since you know me so well! Not all of us bootlick for meta

Meta directly opposes the collective interests and human rights of all working class people, so I think the better question is how come you don’t care.

There are many good reasons to not use WhatsApp. You’ve already correctly identified 47 of them.

SMS works fine in any country.

And you can isolate your business requirements from your personal life.

SMS works fine.

There are exactly 0 good reasons to use whatsapp anyways…

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So the solution is to what… ? Raw dog it?

• mutually assured destruction: if a VPN starts leaking network activity it’s suicide for their business model
• distribution of concerns: VPN services as a rule don’t give a shit about your torrent traffic the way a copyright holder might care about your IP

If you’re out here creampie-ing the whole internet you don’t have either of those barriers but you still carry all of that risk.

Even condoms very rarely break that doesn’t make them in general useless. Perfection is the enemy of progress.

Perhaps? It works just fine for me but I’m a bit of a filthy casual who doesn’t torrent all that much

You need to pay for a VPN. It’s like a condom for the internet. Frankly, stop trying to avoid something that you should already be using.

Mullvad is a good start. Go purchase it.