John Oliver launches "Make yourself less valuable to Meta" website, suggests Signal, Mastodon, Pixelfed, and BlueSky as Meta alternatives
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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.
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I think a large part of that is magnified by being on Lemm.ee, rather than a specialized instancd, like Hexbear or slrpnk or dbzer0. The most productive conversations generally tend to be between people who mostly agree but have alternative viewpoints, otherwise it becomes a shouting match.
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I've tried so hard but I don't think magic earth, organic maps, or osmand likes me
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The problem I see with this is that a Meta employee literally came out on Mastodon recently and revealed that non of these settings do anything and are false flags.
