Agree. The number of people I know who “don’t” cook blows my mind. 75% of my repertoire takes less than 30 minutes of involvement to cook. It’s cheaper, healthier, and a great zen thing that’s totally different from my day job.

For those trying to get started, do a meal kit that involves cooking, and start there. Not having to buy ingredients or plan things out makes it less intimidating.

Tilley FTW.

I live in the desert, they are common even if unfashionable lol.

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 :( )

Is this a shit post, or the wrong link?

Yeah, I’m not trying to go full paranoia on this.

The main thing I’m worried about is Google’s response to geolocation based subpoenas. That combined with the US political environment is concerning.

The second thing is the stupid advertiser tracking. That’s just not cool.

Yeah, this is what concerns me.

Stock Android is neither. So for the average user, Apple iOS is probably better.

I’m on lemmy so I’m probably not the average user lol.

Pure personal preference. I’ve traditionally gone back and forth almost every time I get a new phone. It’s really only in the last 2-3 years I’ve hit the point I significantly prefer android.

For me, some of the interface choices on iOS are no Bueno. Additionally, the lack of a button, or simulated button is not something I’m fond of.

I’m also not convinced they are more private. I think Apple’s incentives line up more with mine than Google’s, but only barely. Independent researchers are pretty mixed on whether Apple is actually blocking all apps, or just making it so Apple is the only one who can profit off of people’s data.

The only reason I think they are probably more private is the giant hissy fit Facebook threw over their settings.

Went to signal awhile ago, mainly because it’s secure and cross platform.

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.

This worked lol.

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.