So a few family members use Google for mobile payment. They are aware of the privacy implications but are there any good alternatives? PayPal is just as bad and any other alternatives I found are crypto.
I know all that but I honestly don’t need to. Most of my time is spent inside anyway. Sometimes I take the train and spend a weekend some place nice but that really is all I need.
I sadly have to agree… I see that this post has a 2:1 up/down ratio. I was hoping that people with different opinions would speak up more because I would love to hear them
As you may have seen, that was my first blog post. It would be nice if you actually had something constructive to say. Care to elaborate on why you don’t agree?
Interesting take. I know about Meta and it wouldn’t be out of character for the Dutch government to go into the federated direction. It would be really awesome to see more federated platforms catch on like Mastodon. We just have to be careful about letting companies like Meta in. What happened with XMPP can’t happen with the Fediverse. I do admit that I probably make it out to be worse than it will be, I’m just the cautious kind. Let’s hope that the Fediverse will be a nice place with nice people for a long time.
You didn’t have to do that. If you feel embarrassed saying something rude, just don’t but if you disagree with me, please do tell. I love hearing different perspectives, it makes you grow as a person.
I agree that it would be beneficial to have this space be filled with people that understand it. What I meant by “I am not gate keeping the Fediverse” is that I don’t want to be rude to new people by being annoyed at people not knowing stuff yet. It’s okay to be new, it’s okay to learn. I just want people to be willing to learn, that’s all.
The Fediverse isn’t confusing imo. I don’t think it’s overhyped at all, either. “Cool” doesn’t even begin to describe how awesome all this is. Seeing the numbers go up and up, more people joining, making this a nice place fills my heart with joy. I just don’t see it becoming a mainstream thing even though many people probably want it to be mainstream.
I would love to say this post was dead-wrong in a couple of years but only time will tell.
That is a fair point, I’ll keep that in mind going forward, thank you
Edit: I do want to add that skimming the title and voting based off of that is not how it should work. I would at least scroll to the conclusion, even though this article admittedly doesn’t really have one. Going forward I will make a clearly marked conclusion and summarize my pov better in the title to avoid confusion.
Lots of people actually use Lemmy, Kbin and similar platforms as alternatives to Reddit and other traditional social media. It’s great that you’re open to donating/hosting, that’s exactly the kind of person we need imo. I simply pointed out that too many people that are opposed to donating/hosting or simply don’t know the necessity of it could become problematic. Basically encouraging people to help make the Fediverse even greater. I also stated that it will probably be fine, just as Mastodon is doing fine.
I checked out your cooking content and it’s actually quite interesting! Keep up the good content :)
Alternative to Google Pay/Wallet
So a few family members use Google for mobile payment. They are aware of the privacy implications but are there any good alternatives? PayPal is just as bad and any other alternatives I found are crypto.
The Fediverse is Not The Future of The Internet. (uselessauth.btw.so)
I don’t think the Fediverse will become mainstream. But I’m actually happy about that. And so should you.