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For users who watch videos, odysee doesn’t look good: infested with GoogleTagManager and/or GA, tracking people with sentry_key, etc. Using piped or maybe random instances of Invidious feels a better idea. For authors, though, escaping from Google is very important (anyone who can’t see this intuitively without even thinking, is not an artist).

Anyway… in one year or so, as soon as Monero->Fiat via CEX is regulated more tightly (if not banned), many of those companies now accepting xmr will probably stop accepting it. Then, perhaps we’re having some interesting experiments.

Buying gift cards with xmr may be a necessary evil, self-contradicting, not really circular, only introducing another kind of middle-man. Services like proxy stores do make sense, though—irl privacy is unfortunately not free-of-charge by default, so one may have to pay to “buy” it.

Because my videos will be a bunch of Monero wallet tutorials.

Sorry I have to say this, but you misinformed people here, saying one shouldn’t use Feather on Tails. It’s okay, everyone makes a mistake, but you stopped engaging conversations here on Monero.town as soon as questions were asked related to your confusing statements. So I’m not sure how to feel about this, although what you’re trying to do seems generally interesting and your website can be informative if one doesn’t believe it blindly.

In fact, your website still claims “Although you’d think Feather wallet would be the slowest because of Tor, it’s actually very efficient and fast as a light wallet. Since the IP address is hidden” etc. which is kind of confusing (Feather is fast by default because syncing is not via Tor, so your IP is not hidden). You’d trivially know such basics if you were an actual wallet user, let alone someone suitable to author wallet tutorials. Perhaps you can help us with other things, not about Monero wallets. Thank you!

You can not call yourself a privacy project and rely on githubs good will!

I agree with that statement. It’s strange that some privacy-oriented projects are on Github, letting the user browse and downloading files from there via clearnet, letting Micro$oft track every IP/cookie and all.

That said, when “something bad” happens, it’s probably not as simple as that source code is banned. Like, they did attack Tornado Cash yet they didn’t ban source code (which is after all free speech).

If you’re planning to self-host it only for one year, perhaps you’d be survived by Github anyway. Though again, I do agree with you that Github is not certainly the best place to use.

Although not Monero-centric nor commercial, disroot + Monero donation = custom domain(s) is probably possible.

(Like 2 years ago, there was also CTemplar, but no longer.)

It’s the value of the USD that is fluctuating not the value of XMR :)

That’s exactly my view too. Basic human rights are fundamental and invariable; a Privacy/Fiat ratio is volatile, because a fiat is volatile as privacy is sometimes valued properly, but sometimes traded cheap.

That said, you may want to simply get XMR “on-demand” just before you actually use it, so that the rate won’t change significantly.

“Use this to evade taxes“ -> an easy way to get a negative campaign (“this is a tool for criminals. we must ban it”). Instead, try to use something better. For example:

• Support poor Ukrainian children in a safe and anonymous way so that Russia never knows who you are and can not retaliate you later. -> Using “poor children” is a good narrative for normies (“they” are doing the same to irrationally attack e2e…). Use LGBT-something or some kind of oppressed minorities instead, if desired. “Russia = bad, Ukraine = good” is a childish narrative, but normies can totally relate to this overly simplified view.

• Make donations to help poor people: our Load told us: “Do it in such a way that even your left hand will not know what your right hand is doing. Never do it in public in such a way that others will know what you do. Donations must be secret and anonymous so that our Father, who sees what you do in private, will reward you.” -> This narration may work well for religious people. Self-claimed Christians typically don’t know the exact lines of NT, so tweak them a little, like Jesus is talking about xmr lol

• Don’t waste our resources; be ecological, be wise, be a life hacker! Why do we need to pay high fees to middle-men like ko-fi or paypal? Today we have better technology, p2p-based, blah blah -> When using this narrative, be careful as some people think mining is not green. If questioned, point out that huge credit companies waste much more electricity and that Monero, unlike Bitcoin etc., uses a “more ecological-friendly method” (?) called CPU-mining.

If and when you really attempt good PRs, don’t use Monero-chan pics in an overly sexy way. 50% of normies are girls & such pics won’t be accepted too well…

Also, when something is behind CF, Tor users often (though not always) just can’t open/use it. Say, you have a seriously privacy-centered website. Then try not to accept donations via ko-fi (behind CF) or have links to a video platform behind CF. Which just wouldn’t make sense (especially if your website is recommending Tor, even providing onion), making you look a bit stupid tbh.

Fortunately (or unfortunately) this kind of stupid websites are not rare; Tor users are so get used to blocking, it’s unlikely they get upset. If necessary, they can easily circumvent the blocking in various ways (except they may lose interest or assume it’s perhaps worthless, and as soon as they see “Just a moment…” they may just close it).

PS: Recently (2023-09-20, noticed by Anti-Censorship team) some of snowflake users also got problems. If a Snowflake client gets a Cloudflare IP address, their connection will fail. The latest Tor Browser 12.5.5 is out (2023-09-26), with a workaround, where snowflake avoiding IP that might resolve to CF (Bug tor-browser#42120).

A serious/critical study like this is valuable, as opposed to “easy” & “practical” write-ups (which are sometimes too simplified, even harmfully problematic: e.g. an unfounded “guide” stating that one should not use Feather on Tails).

Somewhat more trivially, one could also wonder if the freedom where a user can customize fees is a really good idea—for example a person who always selects a non-default fee (e.g. “fastest” or “slow”) might stick out.

Could you please answer a question about the motivation behind AGPL - MIT asked elsewhere?

I’ve been a long time Mozilla-supporter, since forever—since much before Firefox was even born. Every browser I use now is also Firefox-based [EDIT: one of them is SeaMonkey, not firefox-bsed but from Mozilla too]. As such, I wouldn’t like to say bad things about Mozilla. While I could clarify what I was trying to say, let’s just say several other people prefer LibreWolf to Firefox (I’m not a LibreWolf user, though).

In the big picture, we don’t want to be abused by big tech companies like Google, and relatively speaking, Firefox is a much better choice. Also, you’re absolutely right about how free software is supposed to work (at least in principle). Like I said, I really hope I’m totally wrong here.

The original (initial) post is a question about Brave, and we’re getting so off-topic now. Besides it seems that most Lemmy users don’t even read anything older than a week anyway, too busy to have a slow, deep conversations. So let’s call it a day. What I was trying to say in passing might become painfully clearer soon enough, or perhaps—hopefully—I’m just overly worrying about nothing. Although maybe Mozilla as an organization can’t exist anymore without Google’s financial supports (and so not in a position to keep saying “No!” to Google for a long time), as you pointed out, let’s hope that the philosophy of free (libre) software will prevail in the end.

As much as you’re free to be trapped in the conventional box, one is free to use or redefine languages; one may say, “you guys” among girls; anyone (male, female, neither or non-binary) is free to join some community of “brethren.” Males are welcome to live in a “sister city.”

For better anonymity, it could be actually more convenient as a decoy-shield if the name is misleading. As they say, “To fool your enemies, fool your friends first.” Although, this doesn’t change the fact that your point is valid & many people are often thinking in-the-box, including myself. If you feel someone is too stupid, you can ignore them without wasting your time & energy. Just a thought.

I’d like at least this place (Monero.Town) to be friendly to everyone, including children, girls, guys, and others. Previously, like a year or half a year ago, creating something like “Monero Garden” (or “kindergarten”?) was suggested perhaps based on a thought like that. I don’t mean a “safe place” heavily monitored and moderated, though.

When I had posted “Undisputed Champion” in Monero Meme a few days ago, I couldn’t help but feeling that the guy depicted was too rude — not for political correctness or something but based on my intrinsic feelings, while also assuming that guys would probably feel nothing off about this… That is to say, freedom of speech is such a core value for me that I accept in principle, and even affirmatively support, expressions that are rude, insulting to me or ourselves.

I know what you mean and can totally relate to what you pointed out; on the other hand, it’s just an identifier — e.g. “Gaki“ from kyun or “CockMail” are also pejorative or inappropriate if you know the language yet what really matters is not the name of a variable, but what is pointed-to by it.

What’s in a name? That which we call Monero By any other name would work as well…

You may want to also check kycnot.me — any option could be a good option for you, including one where you purchase non-xmr then swap it to xmr, or you swap xmr to non-xmr then downgrade it to fiat (or gift cards if you’re purchasing anything) for backward compatibility.

There are several options where a bank account is unnecessary too (e.g. cash by mail), or an option with almost zero country restrictions. DYOR. Out of the box & good luck :)