Happy to help! This is already an important conversation and we need to be all caught up on the basics at least :)

Yes he is. You are factually incorrect. You can see it from their official page too

FYI, that user is incorrect. Yen is both the founder and CEO of Proton.

They are “on their side” when it’s in their interest to do so. Which, bluntly, is true for almost all people. Absolute altruism–doing a ‘good’ thing for which you receive absolutely no reward (including public recognition or a sense of smug superiority) at all–is so rare as to be extinct. That’s how politics is always played, my dude

…that’s literally what I have been saying. Matter of fact, your whole reply was just a different way of saying the same thing. You just repeated my points and tried to be cool by adding the “my dude” at the end.

I’m done with this pointless conversation. Goodbye

Indeed they can and do support things…things that will allow them to make more money. They are called investments.

The “fight” with DeSantis was all theatre and their “win” simply allows them to continue to rule on their land as if nothing changed.

And I think you are mixing correlation with causation: just because they happen to support and give money to Democrats, it doesn’t mean they stand by them. In the same link you shared, it shows they gave money to the Republicans and Nikki Haley…which is not something someone would do if they truly supported the things you said they do.

And that’s the whole point. They are not someone. They are a company, controlled by individuals who are simply looking to maximize profits. You think they are left- or center-aligned but that is simply because that reflects the majority of their customer base. If tomorrow the right suddenly comprised the majority of their customers, they would change side immediately.

I cannot believe people in 2024 still think giant multinational companies can “be on their side”

They are a company, they don’t support anything. They only look out for the most profitable paths to make money. Just last week Disney started giving donations to the Republican party again

This mentality smells of “just say no” for drugs or “just don’t have sex” for abortions. This is not the ideal world and we have to find actual plans/solutions to deal with the situation. We can’t just cover our ears and hope people will stop

While I do absolutely agree that single issue politics is a real thing like you showed, literally the only reply to your comment was “if you are a single issue voter, you’re an idiot”.

So I also think OP has a point here and we’re talking more about the people who use the term as an ad hominem attack, which I certainly have seen plenty of. And now Lemmy has provided us with yet another example of people taking something legitimate and turning it into a weakness/attackable offence. Like some trolls and racist people on the right now talk about DEI in negative terms

Thanks so much for the link!

Time to migrate my account then ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Is Lemmy.world not going to defederate from Threads? Did I miss something?

I personally use Thunder and I love it. I tried all other apps too but they never quite clicked completely with me. Have a good search!

Welcome then! If you are still looking for a decent app for random scrolling on Lemmy go here and take your pick. We are truly blessed

“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”

I also often question whether the thing I’d like to post needs to be posted (and in the process, I talk myself out of it)

What an interesting project! Can’t wait to look at its results as soon as they become publicly available then

Lmao serious ‘fuck you’ energy.

Out of curiosity I went to the project’s page and saw more info on why they don’t take donations:

Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought. If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.

I’d like to add to the sentiment of this post by saying that if you ever used any of those amazing websites, I’m sure the developers will highly appreciate it if those with the means could consider contributing to their projects.

We all know how greedy and shameless YouTube can be, and yet those developers give us incredible products for free. And if you ever saw the entitled requests of some users on their projects’ pages whenever YouTube implements some changes, and they have to rush to fix their code, I’m sure you would appreciate them even more. I’ve personally seen quite a few projects being abandoned because of the sometimes thankless job of being a developer, and I would hate it for any of these to suffer a similar fate.

So if you can and are willing, feel free to join me in contributing to:

• Invidious
• Piped
• LibreTube
• FreeTube

Some people do. There are options (like Proton) that offer good services that respect their users and their privacy and I personally like to support that

Sounds straightforward enough then! Thanks for the introduction. I too will follow your advice and check throughout the day, that way the workload will be smaller for all of us here, and we can all have a great time

Thank you for sharing! That was a very interesting read with a lot of great information. I feel like adding a bit on the article in the future might invite more people to join in the conversation too :)

Abstract. Recent excavations at Çatalhöyük in Anatolia, Turkey have recovered remains of textiles, cordage and basketry that add to finds from previous work at this Neolithic site. Along with occurrences from other sites in the Near East, North Africa and Europe, they enable charting the development of textile techniques. This paper argues that the woven textiles found in Çatalhöyük (6700–6500 cal. BC) fit in a long development in the Palaeolithic, Epipalaeolitic and Pre-Pottery Neolithic periods, during which strings and basketry techniques were used to produce a large variety of objects such as shelters, rigid containers, and flexible fabrics that may be termed textiles. Çatalhöyük is currently the earliest site where preserved woven textiles have been found and forms the starting point for our discussion of the emergence of textile technologies. Weaving appears across a wide geographical area in the first half of the 7th millennium cal. BC. We argue that two of the earliest attested basketry techniques, weft-twining, and weft-wrapping (soumak and related techniques), are closely connected to the development of weaving. The size and edges of textiles, matting and basketry provide the basis to reconstruct tools, loom types and production technology and give important insights in a society’s gendered technological development, that are different from those provided by the study of lithic, ceramic or metal technology. Many find spots in the Near East, North Africa and Europe document this development.

Great to know! Most users here seem very friendly now so I hope I won’t need it like you said. And thank you for your availability foe any doubt :) Have you been a mod before?