@jeffcliff@shitposter.world You must be fun at parties. "EITHER YOU TELL ME THE LICENSE OF THIS SONG OR I'M FUCKING LEAVING!!!" ~ My imagination of you at a party. :DisaDab1:
@Acoustic@cunny.beauty Are you an admin? I would need an admin to let me know they are interested in working with me on such a thing, if they were, I would be willing to work with you.
@Acoustic@cunny.beauty@Nos@cunny.beauty And if that's the case we will resume federation. I generally like to stay federated with all instances I can get away with federating with. But I have a 0-tolerance policy for any illegal stuff. I will not be under fire for another instances poor management.
@TheBloodWraith KYC is a requirement in some countries. The individuals operating these services do not operate in those countries or operate them anonymously and don't collect personal information.
KYC is often a requirement simply to do business with cryptocurrency. Though, there are many countries where KYC requirements for crypto are much looser or non existent. That's usually where these services operate.
@TheBloodWraith This is an interesting idea, I don't know about finding things that meet all the qualities of Cheaper, More Ethical and better. But, if say we found something that met 2 of those requirements, I'd say that'd be worth recommending.
I often buy things which are slightly pricier than the more popular alternatives, but are more ethical and better.
I 100% agree that people hate being told what they do/see/say is flat out wrong. At best, it annoys people, like you said, but at worst it can cause the opposite effect and actually radicalize people under certain circumstances. It can also make them deaf to hearing critiques of potentially worse things that they otherwise might've listened to or heard you out on.
For example, people being told not to use things like plastic straws or being demonized for little things like that as if they are literally swimming out to the oceans and stuffing the straws in the turtle's noses/throats themselves. As if they're just as bad, if not worse as the companies who dump literal tons of garbage into our oceans/atmosphere without so much as a slap on the wrist. That's something I think is stupid to complain to people about.
Now what we really need is an actual decent alternative to plastic straws. I have tried metal, silicone, paper and even bamboo straws. Paper actually disintegrates inside your drink, metal is cold, uncomfortable and, if you're not paying attention, will hurt your teeth/gums and silicone feels awkward in your mouth and will collect so much dust I'm convinced it generates its own. Bamboo seemed the closest to plastic straws, but the ones I tried were too fat and short for my reusable tumbler. So, I wasn't really able to give Bamboo a fair shot.
But if there was an actual alternative that was more ethical and better or even reusable and thus cheaper. I'd snatch those up in a heartbeat because I find having to rebuy plastic straws to be inconvenient. But they're just the only thing that works for me.
I see a lot more people using reusable bags now, for example. I think that's because they are now super easy to get (they're in like every grocery store) and they are often better (more sturdy, hold more). So, people are buying them. Sometimes people forget to bring them and thus need to use a plastic bag, but that's okay because all those times when they remembered they were helping out a little.
We should stop trying to expect everyone to be perfect at absolutely everything. People make mistakes, people have weaknesses and people sometimes just prefer something that is frankly not good for them or the environment and I think that's okay. For some people, there's no changing their mind, however for those who would have listened, we need to meet them with compassion and understanding as humans, not as “an enemy” of “us” or “the planet”. We need to hear them out on why they enjoy what they enjoy, and see if there's a way we can help them that also just so happens to help in other ways.
@TheBloodWraith I think one of the best ways to do this is to try and support local businesses. The easiest thing I can think of is things like meat and produce. Most places have local small farms around and there are spots in grocery stores for local products. There are also some stores which are just inherently more ethical than others and will have sections for locally grown/raised foods.
For things like candy, that's harder, but it's still possible. There are a few smaller brands that you can get online or even in some stores that are independently owned and work on a smaller scale. It's just a matter of finding them.
I had a situation happen about a month or 2 ago, where I needed a new harness for my cat, we like taking him outside so he can sniff around and roll in the dirt, he loves it. But his old harness didn't fit him anymore. We had tried alternative harnesses before but nothing worked. All of them were essentially the same Chinese trash resold and rebranded. They were either too tight despite saying they'd fit or were unsafe. Well, I found 1 company that looked different from the 3 repeated designs that absolutely filled the pages. It was a "Made in USA" product which had a bunch of buzzwords on it, which like yeah they gotta do that for marketing. Anyway I was close to giving up but figured i'd try it out. It wa smore expensive than other harnesses, but I got it....and it actually fit and was easy to get on and get off. Which you'll know is crucial if you've ever tried putting a cat in anything.
But it existed and it was better, it just took some looking.
@TheBloodWraith I think something a list site that showed alternative products would be good. The crypto community has a few of these. The ones that come to mind are Monerica and KYCnotme which list services that accept Monero and don't require KYC (identity verification). I look at these services constantly for new additions and have found services to use from sites like these multiple times. I obviously use these because I use Monero as my preferred crypto, but there are others for crypto in general and other crypto specific ones.
I think people are willing to try alternatives if they have an easy way to find them, since that's often the hardest part.
@Gatitasecsii@baraag.net My post was originally meant to be a joke. I genuinely do not think he intended for it to be a salute, and was just having a bit of an autism moment. And I think there are more important things to be worried about. It feels like yet another distraction from the real issues.
Like the "Women in mens sports" thing, where literally nobody cared about women's sports until that point. And now that it's become an identity politics thing, suddenly people who never would have cared before suddenly care about womens sports. It's just a way to distract from actual issues which should be focused on instead.
But I'm not going to go out of my way to defend Elon Musk of all people. He definitely did buy his way into the government, I think twitter sucks now just as much as it did before, but just in a different way. I don't think he's a good person, I don't agree with most things he says and I do not know enough about this AfD thing, so I'm not going to make a strong statement on it. However, if it's what people says it is, yeah that's stupid for him to support it and it gives him a bad look. (not that he ever looks good).
They're likely trying to make that information hard to find on purpose. That might even just be a company that they have their IOS/Android apps under. As those stores very well might require that information. It might even be an equivalent of those companies which give you a shared address for a "virtual office" as it were. Alternatively, that might be the parent company where Unifans might operate as a sub/shell company of sorts. Everything that I have seen leads me to believe the company is actually in some place like China. Which has been shown to be one of those countries that does not care what you do when conducting business to individuals outside it's borders.
Something else worth noting is, and again this is all speculation. If the servers are not actually located in Canada there might be some loophole or something, i've seen other companies do similar before. The server is behind Cloudflare, so there's no real way to know where it's hosted. But if they're hosting in a country which allows such content, then they might very well be able to get away with having a Canadian corpo behind it. Since no content which would be illegal in canada is being stored in Canada.
Might be using the Canadian company explicitly for the apps (which require the info) and possibly the payment partnerships (though idk if they'd even need to use that and very well might have a sub/shell company like I mentioned for that.) Similarly to how like a bunch of U.S companies actually send their money overseas in tax havens. It might be something like that.
I definitely agree, people should be using basic opsec when accessing Unifans. Such as VPN, withdrawing in USDT, not giving real information. But really people should be doing similar for everything. But, it's especially crucial if you're monetizing lolisho. Paypal and Wise (the normie methods available for payout) just are not safe to be paid in when selling lolisho, simple as that. They will suspend you and seize your funds if you're using those methods and they find out you've been using it for any NSFW, but especially lolisho.
@japananon@mitra.anon-kenkai.com Wonder if those are required to have the “Login with Facebook button.” Honestly, I never understood people using apps for things like this. I personally would never use my phone for something like this. I do understand the need/desire, though. But I'd imagine most people who would want to use an app for a platform like this they wouldn't care about the Facebook trackers.
To once again add to that, I feel that those who do care would just use their web browser and click the “Add to home screen” or similar buttons on most mobile browsers that allow essentially quick creation of Web Apps.
Probably would be a good thing to mention to your users though as I imagine individuals looking at your recommendations are more likely to care about that sort of thing and just would like the knowledge so that they know to avoid it.
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