Many do but it’s a nightmare for SEO. When people use Substack or Medium it’s because they have built in social network that allows strangers to easily find your blog.
Sadly independent blogs don’t really make money unless you are already famous with a network to follow you.
It would be cool to make some kind of open source components you add to a blog to suggest other blogs you might be interested in. If you use it on your site you would show up on other peoples blogs. There could be tags or something to keep the content relevant.
I wonder if anything like that exists. Probably too easy to abuse
This is what Bluesky does but we should take that idea and do that ourselves as well for not just a Substack decentralized alternative but also for Amazon, and Facebook decentralized alternatives as well
Unless of course your content is original and you want to foster the alternatives instead of further cementing the problematic platforms.
Sure, the choice is rather ideological than economical, but not working on the transition (like using all platforms in parallel in order to someday fade away from the problematic ones) is just lazy and half arsed.
And they cite Vivaldi as their go-to browser. European, sure, but not open source and based on Chromium. I'm always skeptical of Vivaldi users; they seem to value nostalgia (remember Opera?) over facts.
Man I just love the browser and its features. But it does help that they are EU based and have some pretty well known browser veterans as founders. Also they are quite supportive in their forums and I feel they try to be as transparent as possible in their blog posts. E.g. they made clear to support Manifest V2 as long as it is somehow possible while also keep on improving their builtin ad blocker (but we all know nothing can keep up with uBlock)
You're seeing that because it's above the table. I think other large countries are simply doing it under the table. I think the NSA/CIA basically own Microsoft and Google encryption whenever they want.
A good rule is: If you don't want it read, don't store it on someone else's servers with someone else's encryption keys.
Generally speaking, Microsoft and Google don't have encryption in the Privacy sense, only in the security sense. They hold the keys, and are therefore happy to have anything over that's requested. No need to break any encryption.
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn't that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn't even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It's the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable 'metadata' of the users.
On one hand the only thing the document says is this:
"Commission will prioritise an assessment of the impact of data retention rules at EU level and
the preparation of a Technology Roadmap on encryption, to identify and assess technological
solutions that would enable law enforcement authorities to access encrypted data in a lawful
manner, safeguarding cybersecurity and fundamental rights."
That's it. "VPN" is not even mentioned anywhere. There are no proposals yet alone votes. We don't know what politicians say, just some expert groups. Calling it "waging a war on encryption" is a bit much when nothing was done to weaken encryption in any way.
On the other hand, I get it that someone has to be vigilant and start protesting whenever someone even thinks about implementing backdoors. Personally I prefer factual discussion but I agree exaggeration and propaganda is sometimes a useful tool so if that's what you want to do it's fine.
Blogging, Newsletter & Co.: Well, as you can see, I’m writing on Substack. There are no alternatives except to host it entirely yourself, but that doesn’t make sense to me right now.
Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt'ish than US ?! ..but anyway; Then he is ready for the next step; Go 100% open source, foss and distributed. Savings are 100% and he won't support the rich unts - neither in the US nor in the EU = good for everybody..
Because 1) EU laws defend the customers a lot more and 2) US companies have already so much power and money, they can fuck over you easier, and you don't have easier alternatives, or at least some people pretend you don't
Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt’ish than US ?!
Whatever you mean by *unt’ish, you must be a very special kind of uninformed to not be aware that consumer privacy protection is without comparison better in EU.
44 Comments
SrMono@feddit.org · 128 pts · 246d
Hosted on substack 😂
dukemirage@lemmy.world · 73 pts · 246d
Seriously how damn hard is it for an IT enthusiast to host their own blog.
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 23 pts · 246d
Many do but it’s a nightmare for SEO. When people use Substack or Medium it’s because they have built in social network that allows strangers to easily find your blog. Sadly independent blogs don’t really make money unless you are already famous with a network to follow you.
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 245d
It would be cool to make some kind of open source components you add to a blog to suggest other blogs you might be interested in. If you use it on your site you would show up on other peoples blogs. There could be tags or something to keep the content relevant.
I wonder if anything like that exists. Probably too easy to abuse
wibble@reddthat.com · 5 pts · 245d
Sounds like web rings in the late 90s
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 245d
I've seen webrings being used in some still active blogs, I just don't remember which ones
atmorous@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
This is what Bluesky does but we should take that idea and do that ourselves as well for not just a Substack decentralized alternative but also for Amazon, and Facebook decentralized alternatives as well
tux0r@feddit.org · 48 pts · 246d
“Can’t”. 🤦♂️
SrMono@feddit.org · 22 pts · 246d
Unless of course your content is original and you want to foster the alternatives instead of further cementing the problematic platforms.
Sure, the choice is rather ideological than economical, but not working on the transition (like using all platforms in parallel in order to someday fade away from the problematic ones) is just lazy and half arsed.
nightlily@leminal.space · 6 pts · 245d
At some point you have to ask who you are staying connected to
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf · 3 pts · 244d
LinkedIn connects you with fuck all. It's all just LLM posts on there, it's ridiculous.
A_norny_mousse@feddit.org · 28 pts · 246d
And they cite Vivaldi as their go-to browser. European, sure, but not open source and based on Chromium. I'm always skeptical of Vivaldi users; they seem to value nostalgia (remember Opera?) over facts.
tux0r@feddit.org · 10 pts · 246d
Some of us are pretty ok.
pwalker@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 245d
Man I just love the browser and its features. But it does help that they are EU based and have some pretty well known browser veterans as founders. Also they are quite supportive in their forums and I feel they try to be as transparent as possible in their blog posts. E.g. they made clear to support Manifest V2 as long as it is somehow possible while also keep on improving their builtin ad blocker (but we all know nothing can keep up with uBlock)
Korkki@lemmy.ml · 55 pts · 246d
EU regions is also becoming a privacy nightmare with the EU commission's general war on encryption in the name of "safety".
surewhynotlem@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 246d
You're seeing that because it's above the table. I think other large countries are simply doing it under the table. I think the NSA/CIA basically own Microsoft and Google encryption whenever they want.
A good rule is: If you don't want it read, don't store it on someone else's servers with someone else's encryption keys.
Ludicrous0251@piefed.zip · 8 pts · 246d
Generally speaking, Microsoft and Google don't have encryption in the Privacy sense, only in the security sense. They hold the keys, and are therefore happy to have anything over that's requested. No need to break any encryption.
Mgineer@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 246d
We know about the NSA backdoor into every is tech company. We should assume the eu has the same deals in place.
logi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
How did the EU manage to keep their back doors secret where the USA didn't?
Mgineer@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 241d
How long was the US backdoor secret for?
Korkki@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 246d
you are right of course. But US surveillance has been public knowledge before snowden and even the big shock then wasn't that they were mass spying everyone, it was that they were spying US citizens as well which was supposed to be illegal. So legality doesn't even matter. They will find their loopholes anyway. It's the intent of the council and the bureaucracy for more control that worries me.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 0 pts · 244d
EU is waging war on encryption? Are you taking about Chat Control 2.0 that specifically says encryption cannot be weakened in any way?
Korkki@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 243d
Mainly about protectEU 2030 project. Chatcontrol 1.0 and 2.0 are kinda adjacent to it. Basically more rights to law enforcement and intelligence services in general and them having the right to read anything that goes on in the internet. By this summer they are going to present a law that would make no log VPNs illegal in the EU because law enforcement would have to have access to ip addresses and identifiable 'metadata' of the users.
https://home-affairs.ec.europa.eu/news/commission-presents-protecteu-internal-security-strategy-2025-04-01_en
https://www.techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-security/vpn-services-may-soon-become-a-new-target-of-eu-lawmakers-after-being-deemed-a-key-challenge
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 1 pts · 243d
On one hand the only thing the document says is this:
That's it. "VPN" is not even mentioned anywhere. There are no proposals yet alone votes. We don't know what politicians say, just some expert groups. Calling it "waging a war on encryption" is a bit much when nothing was done to weaken encryption in any way.
On the other hand, I get it that someone has to be vigilant and start protesting whenever someone even thinks about implementing backdoors. Personally I prefer factual discussion but I agree exaggeration and propaganda is sometimes a useful tool so if that's what you want to do it's fine.
Mercury1337@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 246d
Im the owner of a small startup and I am working only with Linux and Nextcloud (and so are my 4 employees) - it's doable and it's a great feeling!
vegyk0z6@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 245d
How do you handle email?
Mercury1337@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 245d
We have our own mailserver hosted with our provider.
Coolcoder360@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 246d
Let me introduce you to bear blog: https://bearblog.dev/
I don't yet use it, but I read a few of the blogs. Very RSS feed reader friendly and it's simple without excess crap.
parzival@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 246d
... Proton is still big tech
Bogasse@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 245d
According to a wikipedia search that I could cross reference more, Proton AG is 500 employees and Alphabet is 190k (380 times Proton).
What is your definition of big tech? I was only including huge monopolistic monoliths, are they "huge tech"?
parzival@lemmy.org · 2 pts · 244d
I guess, I just generally try to avoid large ecosystems where they still could capture the market
Bogasse@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 241d
My strategy about that is to avoid putting all my eggs on the same basket :
ComradeRachel@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -6 pts · 246d
They are based out of the USA aren’t they? Luckily there are many Nextcloud providers in EU and email like mailbox.org
parzival@lemmy.org · -6 pts · 245d
They're based in Switzerland, but def still big tech
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 245d
Switzerland
parzival@lemmy.org · 1 pts · 244d
oh yeah sorry I misread
Sims@lemmy.ml · -19 pts · 246d
Not sure why he thinks that EU are less *unt'ish than US ?! ..but anyway; Then he is ready for the next step; Go 100% open source, foss and distributed. Savings are 100% and he won't support the rich unts - neither in the US nor in the EU = good for everybody..
Knoxvomica@lemmy.ca · 40 pts · 246d
Hey watch this, you can say the word cunt. Crazy right? You can say swears on the internet!
PlantJam@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 246d
But what if their comment gets censored from tiktok?
frongt@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 246d
You can't on lemmy.ml. They have a word filter that changes some words to "removed".
UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 10 pts · 246d
themurphy@lemmy.ml · 27 pts · 246d
Because of the US Cloud Act. Try compare that to GDPR.
bobo1900@startrek.website · 21 pts · 246d
Because 1) EU laws defend the customers a lot more and 2) US companies have already so much power and money, they can fuck over you easier, and you don't have easier alternatives, or at least some people pretend you don't
Buffalox@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 246d
Whatever you mean by *unt’ish, you must be a very special kind of uninformed to not be aware that consumer privacy protection is without comparison better in EU.