https://cyberinsider.com/email/alternatives-to-gmail/ “10 Best Alternatives to Gmail in 2025 (Private & Secure)”
The list is useful because there is comparison information to help you to decide. Proton Mail is on the list, which means some of the comparisons are relative to Proton Mail.
The way you shared the links IS already the official Federated way to do it.
https://fedi.tips/what-are-original-pages-in-mastodon/ “Just copy and paste the page’s web address into the search box on Mastodon/Lemmy/etc, and it will make that post or profile appear within your own server where you will be able to interact with it directly.”
How would we use your link? We go to the search page. In your web browser, look for a search icon at the top right of the page. On mobile, you may need to open up a context menu to find the search icon. You can probably just go to https://yourservername/search and get the same search page.
Copy your link and paste it into the search box, then press on the Search button. To save time for the future, you can make a bookmark to the search page.
@nutcase2690@lemmy.dbzer0.com has an interesting suggestion for using a central server. One risk could be if the central server tracks users, then we would send everyone through an extra layer of tracking. Let us look at that server’s hosting.
https://hosting-checker.net/websites/lemmyverse.link
It seems lemmyverse.link is hosted on one of the top tracking websites.
https://www.ghostery.com/whotracksme/tracking-reach
Maybe someone can point the person who runs that website at this thread and ask that person to migrate to a different host.
“In recent years, documents show, Microsoft has also provided the Israeli military with large-scale access to OpenAI’s GPT-4 model – the engine behind ChatGPT – thanks to a partnership with the developer of the AI tools which recently changed its policies against working with military and intelligence clients.”
“In 2021, after Microsoft failed to secure a $1.2bn deal to overhaul Israel’s public sector’s cloud computing infrastructure, its executives looked with envy at Amazon and Google, which had joined forces to win the sprawling contract, known as Project Nimbus.”
“On Wednesday, the Washington Post reported that Google’s cloud division provided the IDF with access to its AI-based services.”
“In January 2024, OpenAI quietly deleted its own restrictions against the use of its services for “military and warfare” activities as part of a comprehensive rewrite of its policies.”
If we use AI services from these companies, our data gets used in making those AI services better, meaning that we are indirectly contributing to war activities.
https://hosting-checker.net/websites/www.heroku.com
Surprise! Heroku is hosted on Amazon Web Services and has been for many years.
If you have some technical ability you can try self-hosting https://dokku.com/ which is open source and free to use on hardware that you pay for.
“Powered by Docker, you can install Dokku on any hardware. Use it on inexpensive cloud providers.”
Pick a VPS host. https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-providers/vps-hosting
“Once it’s set up on a host, you can push Heroku-compatible applications to it via Git. They’ll build using Heroku buildpacks and then run in isolated containers. The end result is your own, single-host version of Heroku.”
https://www.eucloud.tech/eu-alternatives-to/aws-amazon-web-services Many of them have “object storage” available as an option.
What might motivate someone to move away from using Discord?
https://archive.today/1Lfct “Spyware Level: EXTREMELY HIGH”
https://archive.today/ is your friend. Someone already beat me to archiving that news story. https://archive.is/KOYsQ
On desktop, right-click plus Inspect is another friend to get past some of these overlays which block the visible content. Pick a location on a page overlay which might seem like the top left of the overlay.
On Chromium-based browsers you will be brought to the Elements area of Developer Tools. On Firefox-based browsers you will be brought to the Inspector area of Developer Tools.
While the Elements or Inspector area has focus, you can delete a selected HTML element by pressing the Delete key on your keyboard. If you delete the wrong thing, if that Elements or Inspector area still has focus, press Ctrl + z to undo the deletion.
Sometimes you have to Inspect, Delete, find a new area on the page, Inspect, Delete, and do so a few times until you find the correct HTML element to delete or because there may be multiple modal overlays to delete.
If you really mess up the page, just reload the webpage.
When you are done, press the X at the top right of the unnamed Developer Tools area to close Developer Tools or press F12 on your keyboard to close Developer Tools.
I also feel summaries could be useful, but since some original posts on Lemmy just consist of a link with sometimes only a very brief summary, you now have some additional ways to get past some of the junk.
I think it is worth noting Bloomberg says “By accepting, you agree to our updated Terms of Service, including… sharing information about your use of Bloomberg com with third parties.” The archive website can help with reducing this tracking. If a website decides to block archiving in the future, you can probably already assume the tracking on that website could end up being quite intrusive.