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@salsa20 @Tutanota well, at least that shows my point that their game is hitting you up for money later a la "free to play games". that, at least, is how they keep the lights on.

you'd probably do better than to trust folks that proclaim how they offer a free service and then, once your foot is in the door, hit you up for money as it suddenly becomes not-so-free.

i for sure wouldn't be confident to say they weren't doing the same takesies-backsies trick on promises of keeping my data secure.

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social i have to admit the second one grabbed me more writing-wise, but also because of the glorious characterization of Battle Gremlin Link

sidon please just lay on your boyfriend until he goes to sleep

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social

>Slow Burn, Angst, Eventual Smut, Slow Build, Mute Link

GOD BLESS YOU BEAUTIFUL GIRAFARIG

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social and yet simultaneously comes up more often than one might suspect, honestly

cloacas, man......

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social maybe no fics wherein fishperson anatomy is examined too hard though

like inexplicable hemipenes, tentacles, etc. are great, but i am a woman of firm limits and that limit is cloacas.

i mean there are other firm limits but in this context, cloacas might be relevant. it comes up rather rarely

@SapphicGirafarig@donphan.social spicy is good! spicy is more than good. though i tend to like my fuckin' with some plot because make your own english major joke about how we can't finish unless there's at least 3 paragraphs about somebody's angsty feelings. some good ol' hurt/comfort is my JAM but i feel like "sidon fussing over a mostly-dead link" is probably a fic concept so obvious that it means it won't have been done at all and i'll have to write it myself LMAO

burning questions as i play breath of the wild include "why does mipha have lipstick though" and "okay i'm now fully on board what are the fav link/prince sidon fics out there. go team fish boyfriend"

@salsa20 @Tutanota if there's no "we're supported by patreon, by your donations, by this foundation" clear and obvious - but yet, still, a company, with employees, with offices, with expenses, with servers you're using - then it's not really free, is it? they can't give it all away.

so either it's not really free in that there's some cool charges about to hit your account, or... they aren't as honest as they pinkie promise they are.

i don't trust like that. do you?

@salsa20 @Tutanota by all indications, they're gearing up to be a terrifically shit job. and all they've really said is "trust us, we don't!".

after all, where do they get their money? if it's all free, and they don't use your stuff, then how do they keep the lights on? the hopes and prayers of orphans? you gotta clap your hands like believing in fairies?

especially when they lambast other free services for not really being free, but "uhhh just trust us" for the rest...?

that's a LOL from me

@salsa20 @Tutanota do you really think that this company - so obviously full of bullshit already, evasive about questions, and so on - is going to actually do what they say?

i mean, if i'm gonna get bamboozled, i'm going to at least look for somebody who can P.T. Barnam themselves into quasi-legitimacy. because if they're as good at encrypting as they are marketing, the only encrypting you're going to get is "we put all your emails printed out in the alley but, like, nobody goes there, yknow?"

@salsa20 @Tutanota i already know there's no chance of making them drastically rethink their entire business model.

that was a "i see the shit you're pulling. if it's obvious to me, it's even more obvious to others. shoo and get out of here, we've clocked you."

businesses don't get sweetly talked into giving up unethical actions. they get forced to give them up - by action that can include warning others of some bullshit afoot, and making sure that company is seen as a dismal failure.

lord save me from the tantrums of delicate techbros, basically.

do i have a headache? yes. am i grumpy about this? yes.

am i still right? *also* yes!

if companies don't want people to comment to them directly on bullshit being peddled, there's a great way for them to do this:

put it on a static webpage with no comment section instead of social media

anyway put your odds here that reply comes directly from an employee of whatever techbro-nonsense-du-jour it is, who is now wounded beyond belief that nobody wants to trust the techbro-nonsense implicitly and that someone would be as crass as to not buy the bullshit

@salsa20 @Tutanota honestly i'm struggling to see what is so horribly abusive that you think i am beyond the pale lmao.

is it that i cussed? you know people cuss on the internet, right? you can say 'fuck', it's not illegal or anything. really, it's okay

@salsa20 @Tutanota i find a business selling itself on superior ethics while peddling bullshit to be pretty inconsiderate, lol

if they don't wish to face any criticism, the company will be best served by not posting on social media. i've also been downright restrained in my snark, to be quite honest.

if it bothers you, perhaps you'd like to block me. no amount of white knighting a company is going to make them love you more than they love profit, lol

@InspectorCaracal i totally get you lol. honestly i think at this point it's as good as lying by omission.

i'm also not impressed by the answer i got from challenging the latest bit of bs drifting by of "well here's our github if you have any worries!"

there's something FANTASTICALLY peak techbro about assuming your audience can read your code, and by reading your code, all questions about your morals will be answered, and the code is the Only Thing Needed

@Tutanota for the love of god y'all please put the official company social media on ice before you read one (1) whole book about marketing

i will wait for y'all to get to the chapter with the revelation that customers maybe don't wanna buy from a company that acts shady as hell and is evasive when concerns are raised

@Tutanota "and if you aren't a programmer you just gotta trust us! we still ain't gonna answer how the lights stay on lol"

yeah let me just get a computer science degree real quick so i can continue to completely be ok with your pinkie swear that the rest of the details are all above-board and you're totes m'goats doing exactly what you say you're doing. that sounds totally reasonable. i'm so glad that's literally the only response to concerns. very trustworthy lol

@GlitterDisaster as a rando passing by on the fedi timeline, CONGRATS!!!! that's so exciting!!! \o/ GET THAT HEALTHCARE