John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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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 you’d think if they knew how they’d already done that.
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Where did I accuse them of selling data right now? I’m 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 government…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.
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You can join an instance that has downvotes disabled like Hexbear, or votes disabled entirely, or disable your ability to view them if that makes you more comfortable.
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Only if both parties use encrypted extensions.
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Use Magic Earth or Organic Maps instead of Google Maps too. Neither will track you.
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Death is scarier for some than being associated with an organization that actively protects pedophiles, I guess.
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That doesn't fix anything due to federation. Dog piling discourages people from critical discussion or from asking questions from fear of having the angry mob turn on them too. It leads to shallow and one sided discussions, especially in posts with a lot of participation. The only productive discussions I've ever had either on Lemmy or on Reddit have been one-on-one comment threads in small subs/buried posts.
But Lemmy knows what it wants to be, and I'm not saying it should change. It just isn't really for me.
