John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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How is Signal not privacy-friendly? It's the most private thing that can be called a "messenger app".
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My Instagram is full of fitness content (and good looking people tbh). Nothing comes even remotely close on pixelfed. No offence to federated social media, but we all ain't good looking
(or suck at using filters...)It's still a very long way off from taking over Instagram.
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She isnāt a Republican based on the last 30 seconds..
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Meta has been quite naughty indeed
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I think the main red flag is that they are spending so much money. In 2023 they had 55m monthly active users and they spent $35m. The casual WhatsApp user that might switch to Signal is definitely not gonna pay for this so either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.
(Also, half their spending is on hosting and they are not self hosting so a donation to Signal is basically a donation to Amazon and Google.)
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either Signal fans have to donate more or Signal has to start finding other monetization which if we look at other companies means selling private data.
Lo and behold, after RiseUp now Signal is accused of selling data. Well, it is well known (and audited) that Signal keeps so little metadata it is not even useful to the authorities that have subpoeana-ed it.
This is an extra-ordinary claim you have to back with extra-ordinary evidence, in order to save face.
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Signal doesn't have private data to sell; that's the whole point.
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And my point is that since their costs are so high they will either have to become a paid app or start collecting data to sell. Or become more efficient but youād think if they knew how theyād already done that.
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Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? Iām simply noting the risk that they will have to cover the insane costs of their inefficient infrastructure through either becoming a paid app or collecting data to sell.
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Voyager ist amazing
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Boost is great for Android.
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Just imagine being a artist, doing furry because you love it or maybe just because it pays your bills. And then someone from HBO contacts you about commissioning a picture of John Oliver as a horny otter in skintight jorts.
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Yes, those too
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The most private thing for messenger app are the messenger applications using the XMPP protocol.
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Correct me if wrong, but isn't there a law in the us that says, all us companies have to give the government access to all data without disclosing this information? That would rule out any us based companies for privacy concerns as alternatives atm.
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My app. Connect for Lemmy on android, switches between hidden text/visible text. I cannot click on the link.
This is one of the reasons Lemmy is not ready.
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Boost on Android works well. It does for me at least.
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Or maybe just your app isn't ready, and you should switch apps (it renders correctly as an image hidden behind a toggle on Voyager).
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You should expect any data hosted on a server to be accessible by the given governmentā¦and thanks to NSA you should expect any data that travels through the US to be accessible by their government
Privacy in this case is around the selling to advertisers
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Hope it's true. I was fairly disappointed when finding out Stephen Colbert returned to catholicism after being atheist.
