I still feel like they seem to be building a bit too much hype to what’s going to be just another type of social media in the fediverse with scarce posts made by almost exclusively tech enthusiasts

More like AITA

Its great, I’d argue its main downfall (lack of popularity) stems a lot from the fact they don’t have any form of API like Wikipedia does. They can’t even agree on a single logo. Otherwise its a great resource.

Same with people believing all vtubers are AI chatbots or, to a lesser extent, that all female vtubers are just men with voice changers.

Like a minute or two of looking up either on any search engine would clear things up. But hell if it does show how little the average internet user seems to know about AI or audio editing. A lot of people seem to think technology is just straight up magic.

Like that one MatPat picture he started using as his avatar, so much so that he looks photoshopped into the real picture now.

Why would someone willingly do this to themselves

Saying it works is very generous.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pj70ms5biqE

If this is how I fall into the vtuber rabbit hole I swear to god

So you’re telling me a quick and easy way to leave a mark on the internet forever is to post a picture of my shit? Better get those laxatives ready

They also originated loot boxes (TF2)

I just found a video of this girl’s mom roasting her in front of her audience and now this. OK I accept the divine sign, I will watch this vtuber.

Honestly if anyone gives them their money at this point. That’s on them.

If I read correctly, in a PR someone makes an argument that Proton and Tuta are newer services that advertise privacy and anonymity as opposed to more well established services like Outlook or Apple mail that do end up linking mail to an identity.

The issue is that most people will just end at “well I guess I can’t block ads anymore”.

It still incredibly hard tog et even one person to agree tho. And even then they’d likely give up since most of our contacts are going to keep using WA

From anecdotal evidence. Little to medium stray dogs are the ones most likely to snap and chase you for whatever reason. Granted, it could just mean that big mean dogs were put down ebcause they actually hurt someone compared to the abandoned dog with a napoleon complex.

For shits and giggles, mostly

Are there any recommendations for cold storage? Or are paper wallets enough? I’ve pretty much only ever used Electrum and rarely so and I’m trying to expand my horizons

I’d say thats less a matter of privacy since it doesn’t reveal anything to the “sponsors”. More like bloat? Honestly can’t find the exact for rn

Tech I’d guess, nothing really specific. Maybe contributing to documentation or translation of some projects that interest me but no coding at all.