2023 Reddit Refugee

On Decentralization:

“We no longer have choice. We no longer have voice. And what is left when you have no choice and no voice? Exit.” - Andreas Antonopoulos

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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I signed up with them ensuring I read their privacy policy. Based on my personal privacy threat model, I’m okay with their policy. This wouldn’t fit a more intensive threat model.

    I haven’t read it recently but last I remember they do have the option to temporarily store an email in the event of a failed delivery, until it can eventually get sent to you. This is opt-in I believe, and a toggle you can enable in your account.

    In the time I’ve used them I haven’t had any issues with email deliveries. Been happy with the service so far, having left SimpleLogin and Proton for political reasons.


  • This is what I do as well. I purchased my own custom domain name and run aliases off it using Addy. So as an example, an email for an online account would look like: random9.words@mycustomemail.com

    Then I feed these accounts into a password manager so I don’t have to remember them.

    All the aliases forward mail directly to my main inbox. Companies never see what my real address is. If I get spam, I know which company either sold my data or leaked my data. I can then take action by simply turning off that email alias and then spinning up a new one.

    The best thing about owning your custom domain is that you’re in control and never have to change your email addresses. If I want to move to a new email provider, I can easily do that. The process, simplified:

    • Buy a domain name
    • Sign up for an email account at Tuta, Mailbox, etc.
    • Set up your custom domain at that provider.
    • Go to your Domain provider and update your MX records so that it syncs with the email provider.
    • if you want to switch email providers, get a new one and then update your MX records to point to the new provider.
    • If you updated your records to point to the new provider, you’re done. It’s that simple. You won’t miss an email.

    Edit: All providers make it very simple to set up a custom domain. If you can follow instructions and copy and paste text, their systems will run checks to make sure you did it correctly and it’s syncing properly. Very easy for those who aren’t technical.




  • Yep we really do love them. Hopefully persons keep up the engagement on your posts. And also, hoping we’ll get some more to help create content in this exciting sphere. Thanks for what you do and glad you get a kick out of this! I’ll explore how I can try to help create some content too that inspires me. Something I can nerd out about as well!




  • Same strategy here. I’m in the U.S. and tariffs were my big concern. In December, I waited for the Sapphire Nitro+ 7900 XTX to go on sale and I paid less than MSRP for it brand new. Having experienced both the disasters of the previous two GPU gens, I had the foresight that the launch of the next gen cards would also be a disaster, and here we are.

    PC Gaming has become a rich person’s hobby.

    Buy current gen right before the next gen launches, and you’ll be set. I expect to get 10 years out of my card, with the incredible performance, build quality, and 24 GB VRAM.



  • No prob at all dude! I just wanted to add the additional context in case some other persons stumbled upon these comments, were confused, and so they can get some more information on different browser options out there. Candidly, I only learned about Mull vs Mullvad Browser this week when I was researching what non-chromium browser to switch to next.


  • Mull Browser != Mullvad Browser. Just to be clear. I’m adding this context because your reply was regarding a thread on Mullvad Browser, and you replied with details about Mull.

    For anyone else reading this comment: Mull browser is from DivestOS and deprecated. Firefox fork. Mull was forked by the community into IronFox.

    Mullvad Browser is still alive and kicking, developed by Mullvad the VPN provider. Developed in partnership with Tor Browser, also a fork of Firefox.





  • Trump: “Our thoughts and prayers go out to them, and may the God bless our souls— I mean, God bless them and save them from hiel. It’s the DEI that made them die.”

    Gestures awkwardly trying to show Christianity

    Trump: “What thing do you guys do when you show prayer? Is it the hand in the air thing or…?” Puts hand straight into air.

    Advisor (whispers): “Sir, that’s the sig hiel. Wrong move. You gotta fold your hands.”

    Trump: “Listen, no one - and I mean no one - knows more about the Jesus than me. I love the Bible. Really loving book after all. Read it, all the pages in the Bible are great, book of love and that’s just what this country needs. My favorite books are Bible after all. I read them all and I know them, I got so many favorite stories in them. Love the sequel, too. Look, why did they have to die? I mean who knows really. But I have strong opinions that DEI is the problem in some way. We’re gonna figure it out, we’ve got men looking into it, and certainly not the women.”




  • 100% agree. I grew up on Super NES and owned every console gen from Nintendo up through Switch. Got into PC gaming 7 years ago, and then picked up a PS5 on a ridiculous deal to try to enter into their market and play some games. Astro Bot is a charming and incredibly fun video game. So much love was poured into this game.

    It’s an incredible game and it deserves all of the awards it earned. I still love all the main Mario games I’ve played, and Mario Odyssey was a wonderful and charming game, too. Astro Bot is certainly not a “we already have Mario at home” game - I hold it up there with one of my favorite platformers I’ve ever played.

    It’d be great if it could get ported to PC, but they would have to significantly adjust the game controls to get around the purposefully tight integration with the PS5 controller. Playing that game with the PS5 controller was so much fun.

    Edit: fixed some mobile typos


  • X and Y introduced Mega Evolution, arguably one of the greatest iterative improvements in Pokémon.

    With the upcoming Pokémon Legends: Z-A in 2025, I’m thinking about replaying X and Y.

    Scarlet and Violet were so disappointing that I too am hesitant about future Pokémon games. But I’ll keep my eyes and ears peeled to see how their upcoming games are. I no longer am a day one buyer of Pokémon games, after being burned badly on the rushed Scarlet/Violet games.