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Who's winning here, exactly? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Quintus@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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This year we made good progress. You know, Linux gaming becoming better, Reddit fucking up, Metaverse failing etc. But on the other hand Big Tech has or are planning to make some moves. Such as, Google's Web Enviroment Integrity API (EDIT: they backed off), UK's encryption bill, etc.

So what do you think of the future? I'm currently optimistic. I think the best recent event was Reddit fucking up. Obviously one of the biggest information sources going down that path isn't something to celebrate. But it was bound to happen. I believe decentralized social networks becoming more popular is what Aaron Swartz would have wanted if he saw how Reddit was being managed.

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[–] random65837@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except Reddit didn't fuck up, they pissed off a very vocal minority of people who couldn't give a shit less about privacy, the widespread pushback was about not using 3rd party apps, and not wanting to pay, it wasn't about privacy. It's never about privacy, and thats why we're in the spot we're in. We are less than the 1%. Most not only don't grasp privacy, but even when it's explained or shown to them what's happening, the tradeoff for "free" and convenience is well worth it to them.

I'm jealous of your optimism, but we had ONE mainstream breakthrough thanks to Cambridge Analytica that very briefly made the whole planet aware of what was going on regardless of the type of person they were, tech, non tech, teen, etc. Look how that ended, people don't care. Sadly, that being that way and us being the extreme minority may actually be in our favor though.

[–] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 0 points 1 year ago

Then those of us who at least try to care need to break away from the ones that don't and go form a separate society. We can't allow sheep and rabble to continue to hold unchecked power over the rest of us through their sheer numbers.

And we have to be willing to accept they'll never change and should not have the power they do.

We have to be willing to move on from them.