Misinformation about lemmy flooding the community (possibly reddit trying to prevent people from leaving)
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I think there's a team of people intentionally spreading lemmy misinformation. I think reddit is trying to get people not to switch from this...

Please check my post, I think everything I said is very valid, but I want this community to see it too, and help steer the discussion, I think reddit is doing this intentionally.

  • mainfrog@beehaw.orgEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Very few of these things are something that normal everyday email users have to deal with with any regularity, I work in IT and while the windows outlook client does have a lot of issues, no such problems exist if you use gmail, or any of the common email providers, really.

    These problems do exist for normal people. If you violate Google terms of service across any Google service for example you will lose access to your @gmail.com account with no recourse. Email services that aren’t run by a megacorp shutdown all the time. In this list of Gmail alternatives posted on Mashable from 2007 over 50% are no longer in business.

    With email most people have three options:

    1. Self hosting

    This requires more technical knowledge than the average person has and comes with risks and deliverability issues.

    1. Use a smaller independent company

    You could use service like ProtonMail or Fastmail - but these companies are far more likely to go out of business compared to something like Apple or Google.

    1. Use a megacorporation

    This comes with privacy and control concerns. If you aren’t paying for Gmail - you are being monetized in some other way.

    Yes, we could start a new tildes… but without ANY OF THE CONTENT, nobody would switch unless there was a massive reason to, it would take a massive feat of community organization to switch.

    From a privacy perspective this sounds like a feature to me, not a bug. I don’t necessarily want my content to live in perpetuity. I regularly delete my Reddit comments and posts after a few weeks. I delete my all my social media accounts entirely every two years. Tildes going down and being replaced with a new instance and fresh content is not a problem for me.

    Different values I guess.