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Reminds me of the Rule of Goats:

If you fuck a goat ironically, you're still fucking a goat. Same goes with ironic Hitler salutes.

Yeah people are going to love it when their tax refunds take 4 months to hit their bank account instead of 10 days.

Yes, by law. Of course the business will abide by federal law before state law because federal law is supreme.

It's a VPN within a VPN. So all your traffic over the Mullvad VPN connection has a VPN within it going to Proton (but only for Firefox).

To answer the questions directly:

1. Yes, but not exactly. Everything goes through Mullvad, but Firefox goes through Proton going through Mullvad.
2. No, they'll just see the Proton information.
3. It slows down your connection! That's a lot more extra hops. Practically...I suppose if the "inner VPN" was necessary to connect to a specific host (like a work VPN) then it could be useful. For example you use Mullvad on your router, but your work laptop uses a VPN to connect to resources needed to do your work. Other than that I can't see why you'd need to use 2 at the same time.

Not sure if you're asking for advice, but if appeals to reason doesn't work "I'm your fucking parent and you're going to do it or you're grounded until you do" should work nicely.

I actually stumbled upon this the other day. I might make a project out of it.

Thanks for sharing.

The mouse I use on this computer is from the mid-2000s. Just in the past week or so it's losing clicks. I will have to get a new one and I'm ruing it.

It's this one if anyone cares.

Lots of people don't deserve it, but that's the only way things will change.

Keep it going guys. We Americans need to be taught a lesson.

I'm actually shocked that they decided to get the carry license.

Of course they've now contracted with the government and all bets are off.

Not the OP, but I don't think there's anything wrong with it. I do think it's a little odd given that the security is at the client and not in the protocol. As others have mentioned already, if you use skyview.social, you can see the posts anyway.

Apparently redditors who are too dumb to register should stay on reddit?

This has come up on Mastodon as well. Mastodon has a default server, which is mastodon.social. It's somewhat controversial. I think it's helped adoption but it's also putting the ecosystem more under Mastodon gGmbH's thumb...which is not great. I myself am on mastodon.social because it seemed like a sane default. I'd have chosen differently if I knew what I know now.

I'm not as plugged into what the defaults are for Lemmy or if there even are any. I'm sure there is room for improvement, but it is fair to say there are a lot of people who willfully refuse to understand how federated software works and act like it's so complicated that no mortal can possibly understand it.

Can we do a lot more to help people who wish to join decentralized social media? Yes, absolutely. Should we give people shit for acting like choosing a server is so hard and confusing that they'd rather be on fascist-aligned platforms? Also yes.