Switzerland is in Schengen area and in EFTA but not in EU.

Most yt content creators get little to nothing from ads. They use yt only for marketing and provide additional services like newsletters and receive donations / fees via liberapay

Most podcasts do have rss feeds ( that’s how Google podcasts did subscribe them). So find your podcast and subscribe him in f e fresh rss. You can open it in either brave ( background playing ) or vlc

Welcome to the money printing scheme so called ‘Quantitative Easing’. That’s what injects ‘empty money’ into real estate which doesn’t directly impacts basic good prices short term but it does in the long term through the rent costs (delayed effect 5 - 10 years)

I still believe that mailing lists are the best technology which has been both decentralized in the meaning of the identity ( which you can verify with gpg ) and storage. While I like many other things like simplex, lemmy, to some extent matrix and so on, still mailing lists rock nowadays ( note: please consider 2 criterias i meant - distributed identity and storage)

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