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  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytomemes@lemmy.world•You see, here's the problem...English
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    4 hours ago

    means you are now uninformed and unable to stop it from sucking

    This seems better than being informed and unable to stop it from sucking, which was what I was doing previously.

    closing down your visibility to, for example, news and politics that are negative puts you in a bad place to vote

    I mean, I kiiinda agree, but not totally. I definitely do vote. I usually block out a few days to research candidates and propositions before filling out my ballot. So I am making an informed vote.

    However, I don’t see how getting a play-by-play of the world falling apart is helpful. I get the summary when it’s time to vote, then I put it away. I can’t stop Trump from doing stupid shit. I can’t stop the war in Ukraine. I can’t stop Elon from befriending Nazis.

    put on your big girl panties and let’s get past the worldwide push for authoritarian take overs

    How?? All I can do is vote in my own country. And I did that. I’ve tried talking to friends and family, but I have yet to convince a Trumper of anything. They don’t care about reality. It doesn’t matter if I have all my facts straight. They don’t want to listen.

    I can donate to Ukraine for the war, donate to orgs suing the government, or go to a protest, but all of that seems orthogonal to watching daily/weekly news.

    It seems like being “informed” is just a way to “feel” like you’re doing something? Am I missing something here? I don’t get it.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Isn't having your own domain name for email very bad for privacy? And how do you pick a good domain name that doesn't sound goofy?English
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    4 hours ago

    Good questions!

    But problem is, all my email address would be @mydomainname.com instead of @protonmail which millions of people use. Isn’t that just linking all your account together.

    I mean, yeah. You can’t setup sockpuppets on the same service. It’ll be obvious it’s the same person. And if someone is tracking you across services, it’ll be way easier to find you. This is a con.

    I would recommend not picking a domain with your real name, like smith.com or john.com. Even though it does seem popular to have me@johnsmith.com. It won’t solve the issue you noticed, but it’ll mitigate it a tiny bit.

    its hard to even pick a name that sound good

    Also, true. Ideally, you pick a common word with normal spelling that doesn’t have a homophone that’s not embarrassing to say to random people on the street. It would be awkward to be applying to a job or a loan and have to say your email is “[email protected]”. Also, you will have to speak your email over the phone at some point, the shorter and easier it is the better.

    I would also recommend picking a domain with either .com or .net TLDs. Some companies blanket destroy your email if it comes from some weird TLD like “.party” or “.xyz”. Omg, specifically, .xyz I think has been linked to tons of spam. Bigger companies will handle this more gracefully (put it in spam). But smaller companies, like my local garbage company run by normies, will just not deliver the email. (And debugging why emails don’t get received is really hard and annoying.)

    Unfortunately, a lot of people squat domains, so finding a short, simple, easy domain is really hard. I’m curious what other people do. Maybe other people just have me@reallylongdomainthaticanactuallyget.com? Or maybe other people have had better experience with john@mail.club? Or maybe some people don’t care that their domain is john@boss.baby?

    Ultimately though, having email independence is valuable enough for some folks to be OK with the downsides.

  • paequ2@lemmy.todaytoSelfhosted@lemmy.world•Lemmy selfhost hintsEnglish
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    4 days ago

    Shortcut: use Tailscale to create your own private network and avoid hosting on the big, bad Internet. Otherwise, you really have to be careful on how you protect your services.

    Minor downside (or upside) is that you’ll have to install the Tailscale app on each device you want to make part of the network.

    This made hosting at home a lot easier for me.

    Update: Ah! I misread the post. Tailscale doesn’t make sense for this use case. My bad! 😅