I wish Apple was transparent enough to have a real comparison of their privacy.

Personal guess, Apple is generating just as much personal data, just using it less offensively than Google. That’s not good but it’s betterish, I guess.

Main things I’m stuck using Google for at the moment are Gmail and Maps. Gmail, because my address I’ve had over there since Gmail was invite only. Maps, because they are one of the only decent sources for restraunt reviews these days (why did Zomato have to kill UrbanSpoon :( )

Toyota 2UZ-FE. Powerful, torquey, and near indestructible. Also, Toyota had the ah-hah moment to take an engine designed for pickups and heavy duty applications and cram it into the 4Runner.

Hmm that would seem to do the trick then. Curiously, by that same definition reddit would have an argument to being exempt.

I guess lemmy’s lack of trackers would also help with that problem.

I’ll do both for a bit and see what happens.

I’m done posting on reddit, and I’m only interacting with specific subs (maybe via web with an ad blocker). But until the community here gets a little bigger I’ll probably still go there to look at content.

That said, I’m trying to make an effort to post a few things daily somewhere in Lemmy. Be the change you want to see and all that jazz.

I think the mod tools are what will blow reddit up ultimately. It’s why I’m here.

The third party apps are a hard self own, but I don’t use reddit because of third party apps. I use third party apps because the reddit official app is… Special. If they’d forced me to sue their app I would be annoyed, but still interested in reddit.

If you destroy the key tools that enable volunteer moderators to manage communities, the community will die. Example: two of my favorite subs were legaladvice, and bestoflegaladvice. Both required extensive moderating to function (and even then, it was prone to shit shows particularly at LA). No mod tools would make it unmoderatable… Which turns you into Voat pretty fast.

So, I don’t think reddit dies July 1. I think reddit spends the next year turning into Twitter, and lemmy has to run as fast as it can to scale.

Hopefully, this is my last post on lemmy talking about reddit, but I doubt I’m that lucky.

Went to go get some errands done, and come back to find I have more Lemmy upvotes than I had karma in the last 10 years lol.

Drive slow car fast better than fast car slow.

I still have like 1 or 2 communities I don’t have replacements for (yet), so I plan to treat them as forums essentially. Just the specific subs I care about.

Basically I’m thinking I’ll quit using the front page.