KnoLord

A sad day for this instance indeed.

While I am glad to hear that otherwise all federation goes on, only blocking the site directly for UK residents, the underlying issue still remains. I am not a UK citizen nor do I live in the UK, but it’s just disappointing nonetheless.

While I agree with the message, that the people should leave all centralized Social Media services, the big mistake here is concentrating a massive user-base on one instance (.ml) of one specific service (Lemmy) instead of spreading the influx towards many smaller, but still solid instances and federated services (PieFed, Mastodon, MBin).

Even disregarding .ml’s reputation, if this post does reach a substantial user-base, the only thing happening then is .ml receiving a HoD and people losing faith in the Fediverse as a whole (e: spelling) due to this, sadly. :c

Oh thank you! Had it on my phone without any notifications or anything else to tell me that!

Am an EU resident, so that’s very worrisome to say the least.

Thanks for context!

I hope that as soon as the US will act more iffy, these countermeasures will kick in, as even the US should know then that they aren’t all mighty.

I don’t know if you have more info, but are these measures reversible or absolute?

in years

Yeah, depending on when you left “conventional social media”, you missed out all of that.

That is the very same mechanism that, as of recent, censors/censored every mention and discussion of the Fediverse, alternative OSes, or any other way to fight back against these corporate forces. How dare people want to communicate freely and in their own way!?

I also left my plan, even refunded the amount, since my renewal was set on January 1st.

Main reason I used Proton was their VPN, especially their wide range of servers and countries helped me. But now I don’t need that many individual country servers anymore, so I settled to Mullvad, mainly because their prices are very competitive and they are considered “trusted” (even though I kinda miss port forwarding, I’d rather not have it, than trust in AirVPN or other smaller services).

I used their mail for a little while, so migration was rather simple. I currently test out Posteo, when I am happy with them, I might stick to them.

Same with Drive, I didn’t use them, mainly because they do not have proper Linux support (no, rclone isn’t sufficient).

Thankfully I didn’t use them as my password manager (and definitely not as a crypto wallet service) :D

I have a custom script, which changes the fan profile (in my case between two thinkfan config files) depending whether the dock is connected or not. That one gets triggered whenever it switches the power source (AC or BAT0). (AC gets plugged in -> script starts -> check if dock is connected -> if connected run different profile)

It’s janky but very helpful when it works :D