valveman

Durante o voto falou sim

Meio que todas as Big Techs tem backdoor com a NSA por causa do PATRIOT Act de 2001...

Eu baixei e usei por algum tempo, porém não estou usando mais porque tenho problemas com o modelo de monetização que escolheram. Eu até entendo que o desenvolvedor tem contas pra pagar igual todo mundo e tal, mas pra mim uma boa interface não vale o tanto de tracker que o Google usa.

Eu não achei isso quando baixei, só vi que dava pra fazer assinatura mensal ou anual

Well, technically, you don't buy thumbs or teeth, your parents pay for to to be born, and the price doesn't change if you have all your limbs or some missing. Unless you're talking about prosthetics

I laughed

Scientists have been warning about climate change for decades, and still very little was done to avoid it or slow it down. Those who could do something about it just turned a blind eye, and now it's too late.

Some fuckers chose profit over anything else, and now there's nothing you and me can do about it. Telling everyone we're all going to die won't solve the problem, it'll create a lot more problems instead.

They probably don't, but they have families to feed, so it's better to follow the guidelines and lie to a bunch of anonymous people on the internet rather than have your wife and kids beating you up after losing your job due to "not being evil enough"

None of these corporations can be trusted at all IMO, simply because they're corporations in the first place, and WILL always choose what's better for them rather than what's better for the community. That's why I advocate for open source every time I can.

And OK, everything you said is true and valid, but go ahead and try to convice the non-tech people to delete their accounts, while explaining all the little comforts they have will be taken away with it. They'll simply laugh at you and carry on. That's how Google and other corporations that follow this "free services" model got so big and influential, and now they're using their size to do what corporations do: increase profits.

Another problem with this model is you can't really tell what Google is doing with the data they collect. Can you/anybody tell Google didn't feed their Bard AI data they collected from you? Can you/anybody tell Google ain't using your/their data for anything except showing targeted ads? AFAIK, you can't. Even if they update their ToS regularly, communicate you they've changed it and "if you continue using the service it means you agreed with the new Terms of Service", do you really think people will actually take the time to read the same 20 page ToS every time it changes? Most people I know don't even read it the first time!

In the end, you may say they're being as ethical as possible, and the users are simply too lazy and everything bad that happens to them is entirely their own fault. You wouldn't be wrong at all, but that's not how the world works.

Also, sorry for the wall of text.

You have good points, and yeah, I too want data privacy and everything, but the Fediverse in general always was a niche place. I mean, people only got to know this because the mainstream social media fucked up badly this time (and keeps doing it very well). Now we have thousands of new instances, users and everything, but no one was prepared for it.

My point is: your proposals are totally valid, but there was no need for this level of security until yesterday, since this was just a niche place with a couple hundreds of users. Give it a few months and we might get some updates on instance infrastructure and the ActivityPub protocol itself to make it safer.

Eu não vejo como endeusamento, porque as VPNs têm sua utilidade (o confiável que me referia era a respeito da politica de logs/retenção de registro da VPN; VPNs confiáveis não mantém nenhum registro).

Acho que isso só pegaria mais o pessoal mais leigo em tecnologia, mas é exatamente como disse: é mais efetivo não usar serviços mainstream do que usar VPN

Uma VPN basicamente troca o seu endereço IP (o endereço do seu dispositivo na internet); ao usar uma, você pode por exemplo: evitar que seu provedor de internet saiba quais sites você acessa ou fazer com que um serviço ou site acredite que você esteja em um outro país.

Se nenhum dos cenários acima te desperta interesse, então não te ajudaria em praticamente nada, só deixaria sua conexão mais lenta.