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Astroturfing is designed not to look like an ad. It’s supposed to look like grassroots support for a product. Legitimising it for the audience. Strategically, it’s effective. “Privacy market leader is bad for x, y and z, what do you think of competitor?”. It’s classic marketing of “here is problem, here is solution”. Just subtle.
Most people here are probably off gmail or close to it. Best way to make inroads is work your way into a niche which Proton, Tuta, Mailbox did to great effect. As I say, I don’t trash the tried and tested options including rival products of Proton. This is email though, usually you want to put data in hands of companies you trust. Its the reason folk running from google, yahoo, outlook. Being careful and skeptical is good.
I asked a question. You sure are belligerent. I thought I left the toxicity when I left reddit. Not everything has to be an argument. Chill.
I’d have expected questions about Tuta, or Mailbox. It’s weird for folk to pan something and raise a tool most haven’t heard of.
You’d think due diligence in a privacy community would be a given.
It’s quite common to see in privacy communties a post panning the preferred option then suggesting something new and asking folk about it. It can be a way to get folk aware and talking of your product. It’s subtle atroturfing, but you do see it.
Organically, you’d usually ask what folk use instead.
It’s quite common to see in privacy communties a post panning the preferred option then suggesting something new and asking folk about it. It can be a way to get folk aware and talking of your product. It’s subtle atroturfing, but you do see it.
Organically, you’d usually ask what folk use instead.
Never heard of it. Happy with Proton. This feels like a subtle advert.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Privacy@lemmy.ml•Age verification lands in Italy − here’s how it affects VPN users
9·4 days agoThe AI surveillance state requires more data. It wasn’t just US states, and UK. It’s Australia and EU. Either they all indepently come up with the same shit idea, or it’s lobbying. I’ve noticed in the UK when a child dies due to something related to the internet, they mention some tech legislation that would prevent this. It’s like the lobbyists are manipulating folk at their worst to push this shit. It’s dark AF.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Removing obfuscation in Minecraft Java EditionEnglish
516·17 days agoLol. Java used to be ahead. Now Bedrock is. Anyone that knows about MC knows MS is pushing it and secretly cannot wait for Java to be less popular so they can end it.
The joke is because it could very well be true or certainly plausible.
MS did not make MC. They bought it and most who’ve played historically have seen the degradation since.
Are you a MS fanboy?
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Removing obfuscation in Minecraft Java EditionEnglish
149·18 days agoPlease write code for us, so we can focus on Bedrock?
In reality, not everyone quits and your pay didn’t move. Only way to improve your pay is often move and negotiate.
If you stay, you can do 200% of the work and hope there is a role and they appreciate your work. Or just sell your experience to a company that definitely has that role available.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?
16·2 months agoBecause you disagree with them, they’re not credible?
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?
315·2 months agoA BBC documentary here demonstrates some evidence of what is shown and what occurs is two different things:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
There is evidence that isn’t insinuations and it isn’t American.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Asklemmy@lemmy.ml•What exactly is the situation of the Uyghur in China's Xinjiang since 2014 up until now?
912·2 months agoThere was a really good BBC documentary on this 6 years ago which takes a look in one of the facilities from both and official visit and visiting unannounced. Also using satellite footage to demonstrate changes made prior to journalist visits…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmId2ZP3h0c
High recommend watching it.
You get AC? You’re lucky if you get a meaningful title…
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Two years after the Unity controversy, how are things going with Godot?English
32·4 months agoRemember, they built Cassette Beasts in Godot. If anyone has a view on how to make a solid game in Godot, it’s them. Trying to push them to sell an engine they know better than either of us is weird. They walked the walk.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Linux@lemmy.ml•Looking for the Best KDE Distro – Fast, Stable, and Feature-Rich
51·5 months agoSure, Manjaro is known to break on updates. OpenSuse TW is stable AF. Manjaro is a joke compared to most distros though.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Games@sh.itjust.works•Nintendo, Microsoft, and other developers will share accessibility labels about their gamesEnglish
5·8 months agoWhat? Is this a positive step by large companies?
The cynic in me thinks they’ll push to legislate for this so Indies cannot compete and they make more money from MTX hell.
CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlto
Technology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk’s X obtains $44bn valuation in sharp turnaround
53·8 months agoThat’s a very expensive Nazi bar.




So the problem was the game, not the device…? The hardware was fine?