They aren’t third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don’t like it, don’t continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.
They aren’t third party. They are buying Google Domains and all of the customers that come with it. If you don’t like it, don’t continue to use them. It happens every time a company gets bought out, the customers are part of that package.
There’s probably a matrix instance someplace, which would be my personal preference. Maybe someone has some suggestions.
It can also be self hosted, but I’m sure there are hosted instances out there for this kind of thing already.
You mean Racknerd correct?
They are great, I have a couple of servers with them (including the one that’s hosting my lemmy instance)
That’s more than people get for killing 15 year olds while driving drunk in NZ. Pathetic.
after the last WhatsApp controversy
What happened with WhatsApp?
I self hosted precisely so I can federate with who I want to. It’s nice to be able to see posts from multiple instances of (for example) self-hosted on different servers within my own instance, and comment on them directly within my own instance.
The only issues I’ve had is the comments can take a bit to federate across, but that’s to be expected.
More like Spez hopes this will all pass. Sadly I think he’s probably right as the majority of users will just go back. There is already a turning on some mods that have gone dark, with people saying they are the issue, not Spez.
The mere fact that you have to “disable the crypto stuff” tells me all I nee to know about Brave Browser, and it’s enough to ensure I’ll never install it.