The main thing keeping my partner from leaving Big Tech services is that Proton Calendar and other basic functionality sucks balls. The pricing plan is great but for the love of God, fix the basics and stop with all the new nonsense like AI and crypto.

IDK why people are interpreting your question about the mechanics of everyone switching at the same time. It sounds to me like you're asking more about the bigger picture problems it would solve with society, not whether the sudden change would be able to be handled by the banks. Is that what you're looking for?

Moving to a credit union is a great idea. I did a long time ago and haven't looked back.

There are some things they don't offer, sure, but then for stuff like investments I use dedicated platforms for those which is a better experience anyway.

"he wasn't actually paid in money. it was just the value of the gold bullion he received".

Is that better somehow? I never understood this logic. Money itself is existentially just paper with no value until you spend it on something, and its value also rises and falls based on other factors. It's basically stock in the US economy.

Why is it not okay to give someone one kind of paper but not another?

I miss those simpler times. Just the whisper of the possibility of 151 was so powerful. Nowadays every five minutes they're finding random inanimate objects, drawing faces on them, and adding them to the list.

Vermont can outlaw billboards across the state, but when it comes to everything digital, it seems like nothing's safe. We cannot even check out email on a dedicated email client application without being subjected to ads, both in the form of spam emails, marketing lists, and now even ads from the program itself.

IMO the government should be stepping in to regulate where ads can be placed, just like Vermont did with billboards.

It perplexes me that people choose to use a platform which won't let even let them choose how a browser works.

I don't get it. Internet is media, just like books, TV, or movies. Media is full of fucked up shit. Everything from Mein Kampf to photos of dead bodies to adult novels. We've had things like that since forever, and we've always just left it to adults to prevent kids from seeing the bad things, until they're ready.

Why is it suddenly different for the internet?

China*

Please stop saying "mainland China". It implies Taiwan is part of China, at least to some.

Yeah but he offset the negative environmental impact by killing all those people.

Same idea as Lemmy except for chat. Basically Reddit is to Lemmy as Slack / Discord is to Matrix. One minor detail is Matrix is actually the protocol, so it's more like ActivityPub (which is Lemmy's protocol), and there are specific apps for Matrix which use that protocol.

Good! Taiwan is a sovereign nation.

They were manufactured by fallen fruit.