I fully understand the argument and kinda agree. That said, here’s why i still use the Telegram self-chat just like OP, you can suggest a note-taking app replacement if you think:

• Paste a link, instant preview of it without user intervention, can play it right on the app if it’s audio/video if i want or get a preview of it if it’s just a page without opening a full browser (this puts it automatically above a “synced notepad” which is what i understand note taking apps tend to be)
• Synced across devices
• Both desktop and mobile
• Private, no one else sees it
• Easy and convenient, i usually have Telegram running already, just switch to it on browser or desktop and copy or paste the thing

Gimme a note taking app that has all these, that is not a big program needing lots of resources to run all the time, and that i can self-host for the server part (or E2EE P2P like Syncthing) and we’re cooking!

Since i use the self-chat on Telegram a lot i’ve wished for exactly the same thing in the past as i’m planning on leaving the service, so far haven’t found a right fit yet

I will defend the Free Software movement, but Stallman? Nah

I hate that this happens, because he’s a goddamned prophet when it comes to software freedom, the harms of proprietary dev models and related stuff, he’s also in mastodon and regularly posts about international news i see no one else mention, but damn there’s just no coming back from all this shit, how the hell would you share stuff he has said with all this gross stuff staining him? Goddammit, Stallman, you were supposed to be at least an OK person!

Okay, i chuckled at this one

Well, you’re on Lemmy, one of a gazillion examples of this working

Maybe it would be worth it to check if this is a known reported bug and follow it

What’s the “best practices” for DNS these days besides running your own local service?

Need to retry this at some point, last time i tried it, the Kindle app worked in Wine but had no connection, i suspect this was a Wine configuration issue

Before anything, will this get a bunch of not technically knowledgeable people flagged by the *AA corps?

Great! Must have missed the announcement as usual but no matter, looking forward to it!

Except there’s recent examples, and it’s in the docs (On the “ideologically motivated changes” point at the end), this is established

After letting them pass many times (well, one of them, the other’s more recent), this time i said “Meh, let’s do it this time” and got Untitled Goose Game and Little Kitty, Big City. Both got me hooked immediately, did all the achievements for the kitty and nearly all for the goose (there’s some for speedrunning, and I’m not really into doing that, so likely those achievements are gonna stay undone forever). Both were fun and would recommend them.

It’s the same link as the NES one

I have no desire to interact with the hallucinating plagiarism machines if i can help it, that’s why i asked PEOPLE, who have actually used the software i ask about

It’s a commons, it’s the same principle

The so-called “tragedy of the commons” is an invention out of nowhere by a white supremacist

Promoting nazism IS inherently putting people in danger, that IS their thing

45 minutes long video, is there a text/blogpost version of this?

Even from the “all your eggs in one basket” kind of perspective it does feel worrisome, not to mention that i am unsure about this dilution of their focus on many apps being helpful, I’d rather have them focus on very few but rock solid and maintained services instead of going with the Google “we do everything” way to do things