No, I didn’t say that. It depends on your risk model. If you are an average Joe don’t worry that services are charging your credit card. If you are hiding from government then better use less online services, and if you must then find ones that accept crypto

TLDR: “privacy” services can’t be bothered and you shouldn’t too if you are not doing illegal stuff.

These “privacy-oriented” services are businesses that need to earn money, not scare away potential clients and avoid legal issues. Accepting cash or crypto is a risk for legal and accounting reasons. They just don’t think it’s worth it.

Now, to link a particular activity on a particular service with you via your payment is not a trivial task. Government can do it, but it really matters if you think you are or will be targeted by it. Data miners can correlate bank payment with an account at a service provider only if both bank and service provider sell or leak data, which is less likely if you are using a privacy a oriented service.

Yeah, I see many suggestions to do just that. Might be a good time to go check a local library.

OMG that’s the one! Thank you! I need to review the article and discussion though

Here you go:

https://web.archive.org/web/20230902014018/https://www.wired.com/story/apple-csam-scanning-heat-initiative-letter/

Yup, that what other person replied. There was a post on r/privacy which I cannot look up today due to the boycott - it was about Lemmy developers being very radical communists.

The software being open source makes this less concerning, but in case original devs start doing something crazy it will damage the project significantly.

I don’t care about what instance will last too much. I’m not that active contributor so if my comments/topics will disappear the world will not end. I always can create a new account on another server.

I chose Lemmy for now because Kbin seems to be not mature enough. I don’t like some background of Lemmy devs that I was reading about, but I’m still not sure what make of it… Does it matter much? I support freedom of speech, and from my perspective people can have opinions very different from mine and still provide great value for community.

I’m currently exploring available communities and subscribing to stuff that I was subscribed on Reddit. Considering creating some communities too, but not sure how that works yet and how much involvement it will need.

Regarding software - using Jerboa. Overall very usable, but there are some UI issues that are irritating.