yeah it will with that attitude

lmao that’s crazy cynical. manifesting a divorce

LibreWolf or Brave. I use Brave personally, it’s okay

I swear they do it intentionally because they hate Kappas

i wonder how many joules a shit has

I don’t understand how everyone can be so blind to the surveillance that already exists.

Literally all your communications or purchase or browsing history, 90% of people’s photos and contacts, everything you ever say near your phone/smart devices, your health data with devices like fitbit, cm resolution spy satelites, 4D maps of the entire globe being created via services like Pokemon Go, phones create and store in the cloud high resolution 3D maps of your face, mesh networked devices like Alexa now surveil without you even having internet access, your home and your exact location down to a meter are already being live spied on. Not to mention full remote access to all your devices.

Sometimes with a thin veneer of privacy on top of it, like Apple pretends to have.

Basically the only part of you that the surveillance state doesn’t constantly surveil already is your butthole.

Even avoiding just 10% of this surveillance in your daily life is almost impossible.

If you have that threat level, I hope you are already protecting yourself against spying on your web searches. With no protections, you could easily become a target by just looking any of these things up.

I don’t think the tools on privacytools.io fit your requirements (maybe globaleaks) but this site is a good start

https://www.privacytools.io/blogs https://www.privacytools.io/private-hosting https://www.privacytools.io/secure-whistleblower

Also some of the privacy messengers here (like Briar) have blogging/forum features similar to Telegram, but you can’t access them via a browser, so you would have to get everyone to install those apps:

https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-messaging

But realistically speaking like the others suggested: Tor, I2P, Zeronet, etc…

why do I see this reposted every day

Bob’s Tigers

well well well, the archiver becomes the archivee

You could try Molly if you don’t like Signal

That’s cool, but seems kind of pointless, considering you can be easily reasonably deanonymized if your relatives take a DNA test. It doesn’t address the main issue of your genetic information being used commercially.

I think the safest bet would be to get a PhD in medical genetics and manually go through your data base pair by base pair

I always wanted to check out my genome, but never did so because of shady companies like this.

Is there any genome sequencing service for consumers that actually respects your privacy? Especially for full genome sequencing.

oh the skid marks

I am quite happy with Njalla, haven’t had any issues yet

The only other alternative I know is SongTube

I have a Xiaomi, I love their hardware and the fact that it’s bugged by a foreign nation rather than my own. But Xiaomi software is garbage and flashing is an absolute pain. I looked at what rom support modern Xiaomi devices have and I am not impressed. It’s almost all half baked or not privacy oriented. I’ve been struggling with one of said ROMs for years.

I am sick of flashing one-off ROMs without proper support or OTA, and constant system level bugs.

I’d love to have a manufacturer with open-source/open hardware focused cheap high performance repairable hardware and with privacy ROMs as a first-class citizen. Like a Fairphone if it was good.

But sadly all of these devices end up with bad support too in the end.

I think the main issue is that most ROM developers today only buy the most high end flagship devices, since those are the only ones that get any decent support. I’m guessing that’s because they all got high paying tech jobs now.

Yeah the fact that Pixel Phones are the defacto standard for privacy phones is absurd. It’s guaranteed chock full of hardware surveillance tools you can’t remove with custom roms or kernels.

Outside of the Pixel lineup, custom rom support is almost non-existant in 2024. it’s wild, you can get the same or better hardware for half the price.

good to know, thank you

Not a fan of FUTO keyboard atm, Simple Keyboard is better

because AMD cards can now run CUDA?

yes, you’re right. I forgot that exists. I even have it installed lmao

The technology mostly exists. The most important question is always how do you get people to use it.

The only way I see people using decentralized solutions is by having one interface where you can watch decentralized content as well as YouTube. That way they don’t loose any of the content or convenience.

No one ever bothers to open up two apps for videos, that is why a single app solution is the only way.

The unique selling point of decentralized video plattforms atm is 1) you can watch what is banned on YouTube 2) you are not beholden to the YouTube algorithm for conent.

So if we can sell that to users and not have them loose any convenience or UX, you can slowly start replacing YouTube.

Monetization is also an important point, but others have addressed this.

Heatherest kicks in the door

“But it is.”

That’s the point of the repuation system.

It’s a very hard problem, I’ll give you that.

What you need is, each instance and community collects reputation in the federation. then users posting on those instances can collect reputation on those. basically by not being banned or massively downvoted. Your reputation is weighted by the reputation of each you collected it from instance.

Each users identity is tied to some key that collects reputation, that you generate new identities from from for each instance/community/post. Like how some credit card services give you a new credit card number for each new website.

Admins don’t know who you are, but they can see and verify your reputation.

Then instance/community admins can decide if they want a different weighting. For example, to completely disregard the reputation by some instance or make one you like 10x more important.

You could get an ordered list of posts or pseudonymous users based on the reputation. Untrustworthy users will glow like a christmas tree.

That would be one way to do it. It’s hard to make it water tight, but any improvements would be better than the current fediworse.

It doesn’t have to be.

You could keep the general structure and functioning while improving privacy.

For example, by obfuscating post history, anonymous posting or assigning a user pseudonym per instance/community, auto-deleting old posts/comments. All optional features of course. Let instances/communites decide which of these features they want.

Keep the structure of Lemmy with it’s Reddit-like-ness and instances, but give users, instances and communities more control over data privacy.

Sure it’s harder to implement, you need some minimal-knowledge reputation system, but there is nothing fundamental preventing that from being possible.

The nice thing about federation is that one instance/community can stay the same data-leaking privacy mess, if they so prefer. While others could operate analogous to 4-chan (or anything in between).

Lemmy is absolute garbage on privacy. I would love a private Lemmy with fine grained privacy controls.

I tried it at work, it is completely useless and getting worse every day

what an absolute garbage site it has turned into

great. what is the FTCs justification for this? did they ban them doing it outright, or is it just that they didn’t make it clear enough? will this apply to other companies? so many questions.

Uhm achckshurally, the myth is older than the split between Eurasians and Native Americans. So its origin is within a couple thousands of years of wolf domestication in Siberia. That means it’s probably some kind of early wolf-like dog, like a mix between a wolf and a husky.

well, good luck

that’s great to hear, thank you for sharing. seems like it is at least in semi-active development

Molly should integrate Monero, the way signal has integrated their shitty Monero fork. Then I can finally buy molly on molly on Molly.

it’s baffling to me that these big tech companies haven’t created a subscription that lets you opt out of data collection yet. such a low hanging fruit to improve their image and probably make even more money

And the EU is wondering why they’re having an image problem

I got lucky that my MicroG phone works with my bank. But I had to call them to tell them about it, then they flipped some flag on their end and it has worked ever since. So idk, call your bank.

Yeah I feel like the entire space still needs another 5 to 10 years until it produces a viable competitor to centralized messengers.

Simplex Chat sounds interesting. So you basically generate new public IDs for every new contact? That’s probably the best way to do it.