Yeah I meant NSFW, though much of it that's on insta isn't necessarily nsfw
I gave pixelfed a try and it seems to either not have an algo or just be terrible. Startpage is alright but it gets repetitive fast if you frequent the same tags/search terms regularly, just like google.
Is having an algo off the table? Xcancel doesn't give you a feed, just searches.
coomer mostly has women on it, do you happen to know of any focused on men?
I responded to the aspects of your argument that weren't personal attacks.
Personal attacks, yes, I am not interested in.
''Industry standard'' doesn't mean anything. Government surveillance and everything this sub stands against is ''industry standard''. Just because everyone's doing it doesn't mean it's a good thing.
I ''singled out'' Proton because it was the VPN I used the most prior. I'm not sure why that's a problem.
Are you able to discuss things based on criticisms of logical reasoning and evidence, or are you going to continue to respond with personal attacks?
I am open to critique.
The concern is primarily about not letting Israel have my data; payments towards them isn't. What would you recommend in terms of layering security?
I am currently degoogling, getting rid of Meta apps, and switching from american for-profit socials to FOSS alternatives.
To summarize, are you saying your trust in Mullvad's ability to safely host in Israel comes from its decision to relinquish prized features to resist interpol searches?
I've only recently started looking into privacy so much of it goes over my head.
I don't use mails for communication, but I'd just like to limit the amount of information/tracking that corporate overlords can collect of me if I can help it (subscriptions mostly and the demographic information they imply, I suppose).
The focus on this post was primarily the surveillance and lack of privacy Israel is known for, though genocide is obviously not a good look either. Relating themselves to Israel in anyway does lower the company's reputation and the trust it inspires.
I am admittedly not tech-savvy so I'm not really able to understand the fine print myself, though if they conducted their operations within israel that'd definitely be alarming from a surveillance pov. I'm not sure it would register as merely "some metal" to me, if that were the case.
However I know they're in Switzerland and I don't have any idea how "exit Nodes" and the sort function.
It's not operating in a bad country that makes the vpn bad, but the fact that the country is known for its surveillance of VPNs there that makes it bad.
Mullvad doing something — even if it's reknown — doesn't automatically make it's actions good.
Israel conducts surveillance of any VPN communications of any that exist in the region. This is fully legal there. This is a threat to privacy. You'd need to let me know how that isn't the case, not that X or Y company also hosts a server in the region.
Re: mail, not looking for perfect, just better than Gmail, ideally FOSS.
Pixelfed's algo is bad (or non existent) but I'm trying Mastodon out