the comments are a nazi cesspool. guess I wont be renewing

If people were shilling for Mullvad, then they wouldn't give a shit about this would they?

Anything shared here would inevitably be (or become) a honeypot. If you want a community-driven VPN, it would need to be something like Tor. Individual nodes being hosted by the community, and a zero-trust system to ensure no single node sees enough traffic to ID users.

But the issue with this is that a malicious actor (like the government) could simply spin up enough nodes to be able to capture the system. A zero-trust system like Tor is only secure because it is large. It’s not economical for a single actor to run enough nodes to reliably capture all three connections in the chain. But if it’s a small group (like Lemmy) starting up their own system, then it would be trivial for a larger organization to simply outnumber the two or three dozen safe nodes.

RiseUp VPN already exists. I trust that they aren't feds but I also assume the feds have snuck some sort of spyware on them asap.

So... A honeypot?

Nym existe i thing their founders are anarchist. But don't know if they are trust worthy. The people involve seam decent https://nym.com/about

What do you consider to be "anti-authoritarian left?"

Private Alpes is a bulletproof hosting provider in Switzerland, where Mullvad has also rented its Swiss infrastructure.

They're practicing the rhetoric strategy known as Bonapartism, which is when you claim to be neither left nor right, but a third way, which is nonsensical as realistically you gotta stand for something. As for this party's actual views, they're social fascists (socialdemocracy for me, fascism for thee). They're wildly racist.

Be careful with being explained politics from other countries, even sourced. If you asked a big part of the french population what are LFI's politics they'd tell you all sort of horrors that the media baselessly accuses them of simply because they are dangerous to the capitalistic system we live in. The formerly mainstream french "left" hates them too and always has.

Unfortunately more and more media all around the world is owned by more or less hidden oligarch wannabes.

I don't know swedish politics either, but I wouldn't trust random strangers on the internet to tell me what they are.

The main thing to know and understand about them is that they want to ethnically cleanse sweden of people they consider non-swedes.

note that this is a local party, and as such their policies are focused on their local area only. apparently they plan to be on the national ballot this year but i've not seen any policy changes to reflect that. reading from an interview the founder did in 2022, he had to start his own branch of the left party youth wing because there wasn't one where he lived, and as soon as they became official he found out that they didn't like his opinions so he was forced out. as for what those opinions are...

– Vi började fråga oss vad som var relevant i människors vardag. Är radikalfeminismen relevant? Nej. Är frågan om hur många kön som finns relevant? Nej. Är gamla mossiga resonemang om huruvida Sovjet var en arbetarstat relevant? Nej.

Han upprördes av skatteslöseri och kommunala skrytprojekt som genomfördes samtidigt som utanförskapet växte.

– Jag tog frågan till nutid. Vilken klass tjänar egentligen på den förda migrationspolitik som lett till utanförskap och kriminalitet?

"we started asking ourselves what was relevant in the daily lives of people. Is radical feminism relevant? No. Is the question of how many genders there are relevant? No. Are tired old arguments on whether the Soviet Union was a worker-led state relevant? No."

He was upset by wasted tax money and bragadocious projects the local government spearheaded while social exclusion kept growing.

"I brought the question to present day. What class makes money from the immigration policies that have led to exclusion and criminality?"

He's coined a term for the class of people he says are the main tax money wasters; "transferiat", as in the macroeconomic concept of transfer payments. these people, he says, just profit from the system without adding value. as examples, he lists "genusvetare, mångfaldsstrateger, HBTQI-certifikatörer [,] i viss mån även journalister (inom public service). Det finns även ett lägre skikt av transferiatet – de bidragsberoende, framför allt den stora massan av arbetslösa invandrare som kommit att hamna i utanförskapsområden": gender studies graduates, diversity strategists, LGBTQ-certifiers, journalists in publicly funded media, and unemployed immigrants.

...honestly i was with him for a while there. i thought he was gonna go on a tirade against "bullshit jobs", but instead he went off the deep end. later on he cites "public art" and "community centers in areas where more limmigrants live" as a waste of taxpayer money.

Seem it's people calling it full blown 'Nazi' (?) - even to people trying to figure this out - and that's that.

Anyone have experience with iVPN? I've generally heard it's good, but I'm not sure how it compares. Looks like it's the same price as Mullvad at least, and also accepts cash and monero as payment options. I'm just wondering about how many servers they have comparable and how often they got blocked by major websites. I'm thinking that'll probably be what I switch to, unless it has some major problems I'm not aware of.

I use AirVPN, personally. They put money where the mouth is and haven't donated to any Nazis either.

And dont just blindly recommend eastern spyware VPNs either

Do these even exist? Who gives a shit if the PRC spies on me? I'd happily use a North Korean VPN if they had IPs that weren't geoblocked.

Proton since it is cheaper than Mullvad I guess

Calling nonwhite migrants "parasites" is a pretty clear signal which end of the spectrum they're actually on.

Accused of being Nationalist from the left and being Socialist from the right. What a novel idea. A nEw PoLiTiCaL tHiRd WaY!

So nobody can agree if they're far-left or far-right, but everyone agrees they're far-authoritarian?

So, they’re socialists, only national?

How did 9+ people even parse this comment?

Points for mentioning a solution, but being condisending and talking down to people isn't a great way to get them excited about becoming involved. It's better to let people in on the joke rather than make them the joke.

Mentions GNU

Condescending asshole about it

You wouldn't believe it

You use a vpn to watch netflix, i use vpn to watch porn, we are not the same /s

So, anyone that doesn't have the technical expertise to start moving to a more private online experience is a simpleton. Thanks for clearing that up for all of us simpletons. GNUnet is nowhere near ready to even begin to be a part of anyone's digital life, ansd the developers say so themselves:

Please be aware that this project is still in an early alpha stage when it comes to running software – its not an easy task to rewrite the whole Internet!

While it's great to put the word out hoping that more people gets involved, vexing others has the opposite outcome.

All this to say, fuck you, get off of your high horse.

gnunet

you misspelled yggdrasil

Not weighing in on their politics, but yes and they should. It's called voting with your wallet. Where do you think the CEO gets the money to fund their politics? They don't work for free. By continuing to use that service it's tacitly okaying the CEOs choice.

Money is power.

I think you should all be less trusting of western tech companies that strictly use infrastructure in countries that the CIA would feel comfortable hanging out & torturing people to death in

Is this not itself a geopolitical statement? Do we judge everything by indidual choices, or acknowledge the place of individuals in a wider structure they may not be entirely aware of?

You add up all we know about 5/14 eyes, comprador states, you couldn't get a better list of CIA-compatible nations than the Mullvad server picker

Let's just stop for a second. Cyprus? Israel? Ukraine? I know the justification. But cmon

Yeah, the only issue is that any profits from paying for their service will eventually line the person's pockets. It's not like the company is directly doing it, or spreading the bullshit.

Makes it a slightly different issue, but it is still an issue

Stop streaming. Put your VPN to work the right way.