I just spent a while today deleting all my posts and comments. At this point they'll probably have plenty of copies of it, but at least the content is not up for them anymore.
Just trying to see if I can survive without an account there (the "forum fediverse", if that makes sense, is getting better and better) and then it'll go to the same place my Twitter and Facebook handles went a while ago.
I created my account in Spain around 2009, moved to Canada in 2014 and came back to Spain late last year. Never had a problem with this :-?
I created an account a few months ago but I've barely used it. DDG provides pretty much everything I search for. This might be because I don't typically do very "esoteric" searches, but for now I don't see the need for a paid service. Most of the times, tweaking the query so that it looks for a specific source is good enough.
I'd love if DDG had a system to remove entire domains entirely from the results, though.
Came here to post a similar comment zedeus made in another thread:
Nitter is dead.
I still checked some Twitter accounts from people that were interesting to me and didn't migrate to Mastodon. One less thing to worry about, I guess.
Where's that? I just ran a test search but I can't see it :-?
Yes, I'm aware those filters exist, but I'm asking about the practical implications of the set up I mentioned in the post.
There was a very nice episode of the Odd Lots podcast about this: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-12-07/huawei-mate-60-pro-chip-breakthrough-shocks-computing-world?srnd=oddlots
Damn. I knew this was a huge problem in Europe, but I didn't know this happened in Canada too.
Here's the Wikipedia article on this type of fraud: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missing_trader_fraud
I moved back to Spain after 9 years abroad. I discovered this country runs on WhatsApp. Not a chance this will change in the short term.
Is it overkill? I think it is. Does it work for you? Go ahead then.
I installed a dokuwiki for personal use and it's great. Some people might say it's too much, but I'm happy with my choice.
I don't even know what the "normal thing" is anymore.
Yes, these things are never dead. They just come back under a different name / pretensions until they pass.