After the app rating was down to about 2.8 stars on Google Play Store recently, it is now at 4.1 stars. Latest ratings seem to be from September 2022 though.

Looks like they’ve deleted all the 1-star ratings that had been recently added.

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    One of the reasons I am still actively trying to DeGoogle all my shit.

    If you want to make some similar changes here are some suggestions:

    YouTube : PeerTube

    Chrome : FireFox with “Hardened Profile” or another browser like LibreWolf (also try to setup uBlock that blocks javascript/3rd party apps by default)

    Windows : Linux Mint

    Gmail : ProtonMail

    Built in Password Manager : Locally Stored Password Manager

    I get not all of them are directly Google but this will help block out a lot of the tracking that they do even if you aren’t logged into their website.

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      Peertube is quite bad. I would suggest using Newpipe until it improves, because switching over to Peertube from YouTube means you won’t find almost any content anymore.

      That means people will switch back to YouTube. So using Newpipe is better I believe. Even though it would be great if everyone started uploading to peertube instead. But people who make videos on YouTube seem to be doing it for the money, so not likely they will enjoy Peertube.

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        Fair, but I also planned to upload videos there. You aren’t kidding though. The instance I joined is all Blender videos lol

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          Yeah I tried it for a bit but I ended up seeing really low intelligence conspiracy videos.

          I don’t mind good conspiracies like 9/11, but there are so many really shitty ones.

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            Conspiracy that borders the line of truth and fiction is generally interesting. I hate how modern conspiracy blends in with crap like “q” and stuff like that. For me it’s always been about that subtle mystery and not really about trying to localize my hate towards a specific group or organization.

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              Yeah exactly, same for me. But I think the easiest way to discredit all conspiracy theories is to fill the entire space with really idiotic ones.

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                It’s tough because conspiracy does happen. If we began a plot against someone else it would absolutely be a conspiracy. The problem is everyone does that all the time. So not everything is an interesting conspiracy, it’s just normal life.

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                  Yeah plotting against eachother is called “politics” in business and it’s called “strategy” in politics. :)

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        I’m surprised anyone would want to host something like peertube. Even picture hosting for randos can get expensive real fast.