What a strawman. There are many reasons to not use Google products that have nothing to do with Google being in the USA.

As if the Google keyboard did not send all your keystrokes to Google…

Oh, right! Have you looked into Owncloud, the parent of Nextcloud that claims to be free of the bloat of its child?

BlueSky is open source.

I’ve recently found Filen and it seems to be working well.

Yes, also remember to completely avoid Typescript and C# since they are also Microsoft.

This, but unironically.

By what standard is GitLab not a “capitalist platform”? It feels even more corporatey than GitHub. From their homepage:

GitLab is the most comprehensive AI-powered DevSecOps Platform.

SourceHut encourages an e-mail–based workflow that does not require anyone but the repository owner to have an account. In fact, that’s how Git originally worked before GitHub enshittified it.

How would decentralization work for an issue tracker? The issues have to be stored somewhere.

I’m sure there is a lot that the random developer who happened to be born in Russia can do about that.

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But you can’t view Mastodon posts from Lemmy.

Because there’s a lot of content and, unlike the fediverse, you kind of have to mirror it all (which is good for users but bad for admins).

If you take it to such an extreme, there is undoubtedly at least one Nazi on Lemmy too.

If the purpose of this feature was tracking, they could just use a JavaScript onclick handler.

Because that would break the “copy link” functionality.

You can make a service that interoperates with Bluesky, such as a firehose view, without getting harassed by thousands of users.

But do you have any evidence that Bluesky is doing that? It has nothing to do with this post.

Does that also mean I should not browse any websites I don’t already know? That’s very limiting.

Is there anything bad that can happen if you just click a link without logging in or anything? How is it different from opening up a random search result?