Happy #GlobalSwitchDay

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They understand Twitter sucks now and it feels more peaceful on BlueSky.

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Twitter was alright up until Elon took over so I’m willing to hang out until the billionaire psychopath swoops in.

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no, there's tons of furries, like the rest of the fediverse. >.>

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It should be something like SimpleX

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That’s ironic

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The thread was about Global Switch Day, whose purpose is to leave proprietary social media for ones that won’t sell your data or get enshittified. So Rednote being proprietary already makes it irrelevant to the discussion.

Even if it actually was better than mainstream social media at the moment, it would still at the same risk of being enshittified due to that. It’s just a bandaid solution, like people leaving Twitter for Bluesky.

And besides that, most sources I found say Rednote does have ads.

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How is the puppy?

As for interoperability between services… Monetization of surveillance data. The social media companies are Ad companies, and they make their money surveilling people and selling access. It’s harder to build an accurate model of a person when only pieces of data is available, and they need to have more data then the other Ad tech companies they’re competing with.

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So the guy above the guy avobe me was wrong?

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So the guy above the guy avobe me was supposedly wrong?

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There's data-sharing agreements with more than just the N eyes countries
If there's an international warrant for that data the company is obliged to comply regardless

The only countries in which n° 2 doesn't apply for the US are countries you really don't want your data in either.

In short, however: if a government really wants your data it will find a way to get it no matter where you store that data, so the best thing is to simply not store that data at all, Mullvad and Signal don't do that.

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Good point. I've never seen an ad on it and I've been using it for at least a week. There's sponsored content, but you'd have to go looking for it. Like if I wanted to watch some videos about Nike shoes, I'd see sponsored videos and such. But no actual ads.

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Unfortunately, I don't know. I read that mobile apps for it are few and far between? There may only be one or no app for Friendica on each platform. I think I also read that there are a couple of apps in beta at the moment?

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I agree that the Facebook format is fine. The real problem with them is the algorithms. Oh, and all the data harvesting, advertising, and now bots pretending to be real people? I guess everything else about Facebook is terrible except the format!

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sorta, the old clients still have bad cryptography and the new client isn't fully featured yet

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you can't join Signal there. I don't know whether it's due to sanctions or if the government is blocking 2FA SMS messages. In either case, it is impossible to join without a phone number confirmation.

What do you mean? You need a phone number to join Signal in any country.

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I need to use email to work

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Like I said, I don’t know the inner workings of Matrix. But according to the second guy that isn’t you, Matrix has a new tech stack that is zero trust. Now, there are many ways in which that can be true and I don’t know if what Matrix has right now can indeed be considered dissident-level privacy.

It’s good enough for my threat level (I basically just use it for software support). If I were planning to overthrow a regime, I’d likely go with SimpleX or some other privacy-first messengers.

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When people say the fediverse is too confusing I think most of the time in the specific it is good and vital feedback (please let us continue to dismantle the ways in which we participate in systems of anti-accessibility without sometimes even being aware) but sometimes I think the viewpoint might have everything backwards in the beginning assumption that this hurdle, fundamentally an issue of education, has any easy, universal, infinitely scalable genuine solution like corporate social networks attempt to convince us exists and is just around the corner.

Why are we assuming any solution that can be "growth hacked" like a factorio factory is capable of preserving the values that motivated communities to adopt those tools in the first place?

Like, maybe maybe-not....

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