A regulated Paypal crypto currency - Fuck no! I stopped using that deceitfully disingenuous corporate swamp years ago. Nothing good can come of this. I bet it’s a privacy nightmare.

Ok, so I’m wondering how you explain the billions of dollars profit corporate sites generate from scraping and selling our private data? I’m also genuinely interested in how you might explain how TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or anything Google are more privacy friendly than Lemmy?

I’m not suggesting any Federated service is private. However, we should be aware of and always working towards preventing Lemmy (in context) from becoming anything like those abusive corporate data selling clusterfucks.

No, you don’t need to, but I was interested in what you might say.

Can you elaborate how making Lemmy like current popular sites will prevent tech and “tankie” content?

Total agreement. I left Reddit years ago because I thought it was toxic long before the big migration. I really dislike seeing post after post of bot created Reddit content here. It makes me angry actually. I block it as best I can, but it should just fucking stop!

How can we make it more popular?

By not doing the things that corporations do to make things popular. Do we even need Lemmy to be popular? I think we concentrate on trying to keep the Fediverse and Lemmy user focused and privacy friendly and people will naturally come over as they get burnt on the ever increasingly enshitified corporate data-theft sites. We need to be something different than the big sites. A breath of fresh air. I think people will be OK with putting up with a few quirks to escape those toxic environments. I think Lemmy is progressing just fine and I’m enjoying it.

There’s some Windows desktop alternatives that are great out-of-the-box and just work. Some that come to mind are ChromeOS by Google, Linux Mint and Pop!_OS, which is OEM for System76 hardware.

Installing Pop is easier than you might think.There’s documentation on both Pop or Mint’s site. I know their support and FAQ are really good.

I was curious about the “starting to” in the title. Personally, Edge has always been annoying. Using another description in the article, one could argue that anything from Microsoft is “a hyperactive neurotic low-IQ product for the masses”. There’s no surprises here and exactly what I’d expect from that abusive corporation.