Ahoy mateys, we are requesting that everyone be extra gay this month to celebrate 🏳️🌈
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YarrMatey [she/her]
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Thanks, these will be my new recommendations to people.
Same here, we’re left with AirVPN at that point.
I did skip some details, I should have also added that proton uses phone numbers to verify you are not a bot when you attempt to be anonymous. It is possible to use a burner email from disroot (or non-proton) but that was such a headache I never want to attempt again since even tuta locked my account. I used disroot because the normal burner email I use wasn’t getting their code. They lock your account immediately if you use Tor or ironically their own vpn service when you sign up. You can use burner codes like smspool or juicysms at least. You can’t use crypto as your first payment method either (if that’s important to you). You should also never enter an actual recovery email because that will be handed over in a raid.
Which is why I recommend most people use Mullvad instead of this headache and offer AirVPN as a different alternative if you must torrent with port forwarding. My usage of proton has turned me anti-proton lmao. Their linux support kinda sucks too. If I had to do it again, I would have avoided proton’s vpn.
Proton requiring you to doxx yourself via phone numbers and email addresses is such crap. Can’t sign up via Tor either, they limit crypto they accept and when. They log your payment methods, and just suck so bad compared to Mullvad. I know expecting privacy for email is a non-starter, but they pretend like their email is private when there is so much logging they do there alone.
Thanks for the heads-up with AirVPN, I was told they had good customer support but ¯\(ツ)/¯ I would not know.
Mullvad gives you a random number for your account and does not ask for anything else. You can pay via cash or other methods for better privacy. Mullvad has no logs to give and have been raided before proving this. Mullvad is based in Sweden with good vpn laws. I am very pro-Mullvad but when they removed port forwarding, I switched away (and they also gave partial refunds when they removed port forwarding).
I don’t like the idea of being stuck in Proton’s ecosystem since it has good deals on its suite but at least they have good vpn laws (Swiss). They also push credit instead of full refunds. The downside to AirVPN (who I have not fully tried yet) is they are based in Italy (but no longer serve Italian customers due to the increase of bs in Italy).
Edit: Mullvad are assholes funding far right shit. Proton are assholes. But there is still AirVPN, IVPN, and crpytostorm.
My recommendations have been:
- Need port forwarding? ProtonVPN or AirVPN.
- Don’t need it? Mullvad.
Edit: Just learned Mullvad’s founder is funding racist far right crap. New recs I’ve found:
- Port forwarding: AirVPN or crpytostorm.
- Don’t need it? IVPN.
Omg you beat me to it, I loved the chao gardens in SA and SA2.
It’s no secret that the fediverse has trolls. Trolling is IMO antisocial and disruptive. We have a few on dbzer0, with one casually saying they have 100 alts. I have to say, I’m unsure how to deal with this. I’m unsure how to deal with someone this dead-set on bullying people, even wanting to recall admins. I have been told this troll probably has ASD (as offensive as that is to me) and that I can’t impose my beliefs on others. But I have never banned people for disagreeing with me, my problem was that I and others were trolled and harassed. You could tell trolls things like “please leave me alone” or “stop replying to me multiple times” or even “stop following me” and that does not get actioned because it is not against the rules to harrass people this way. Look at the disengage rule, it doesn’t apply to these situations. And try hitting the search button for “troll” on the rules.
I’ve been told yes these trolls are annoying and disliked by many (if not most) people and yes they drive away people like me from participating at all on lemmy or matrix, but that is not enough of a reason to ban. There are also trolls who report everyone they argue with and use their account solely to argue and troll. I don’t want dbzer0 to be known as the place that houses trolls that get anyone who argues with said trolls banned. Report abuse was not ok in other forums, but it is rarely actioned here. The trolls I am talking about have their accounts housed on dbzer0 btw, a place that is not supposed to be freeze peach.
I know many of our users like to tell off right-wingers and libs. That can be fine if it doesn’t get out of hand (“kys” is explicitly banned). I could say, let’s not allow people to troll, but maybe some only want leftists to not to be trolled. For instance, one group of trolls we have is antivegan. Is that considered an example of leftists that shouldn’t be trolled (and I do mean trolled, harassed - not just disagreeing)? Right now, there is a lot of room for trolling all sorts of people. One reason for our zionist rule is because we had zionist trolls that weren’t breaking our other rules even though our code of conduct does not allow supporting genocide. Our anti-AI rule was because others were harassing some of our stable diffusion mods. People have been sent nasty PMs as well. You can troll on this instance and get away with it as long as it is not explicitly stated as not allowed in our rules. I have been told it has to be explicitly stated, one of our trolls is a rules lawyer who believes they were given permission to troll before their account was made.
So tell me about your experiences with trolls. How do we fight them? How can we change or add to our rules? Which trolls have been bothering you?
This meta post was finally posted in response to my comment here: