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Wdym I can find all manner of dangerous shit by googling for five minutes
Wdym I can find all manner of dangerous shit by googling for five minutes
I like the kind of revival of nice TUIs that is going on right now. I just wish it continues !
I’m still in a dozen anarchy Minecraft discords. I’m inactive and haven’t played consistently for a couple years but I like the occasional ping.
I’m a theoretical physicist and I can predict most dropped objects will fall to the floor
“here’s how to tell which one” so this guy has solved VC investment. Got it.
You know the company and the users are completely divorced when you read something like that. Redditors have spent years telling each other that awards are useless and a waste of money - then the admins touch it and everybody flips their lid. I for one am glad I’m no longer part of that toxic relationship.
“Damn, I thought mental illness was in the knees”
What’s disheartening to me in this kind of conversation is that when you boil it down to specifics it becomes super vague. “Cross pollenating data”, well i’m a data engineer and i have no idea what that means. “Selling manipulation” is a threat model ? “Embrace Extend Extinguish” ? I’m sorry but that’s word salad to me. If we take those arguments far enough they just become “yeah well bad people can do bad things to you on the internet” and while true, this is entirely irrelevant to the fediverse conversation.
The OP blog article does not support the positions you see every day in Lemmy comments such as yours. All he’s saying of tangible value is that if Meta federates then your account & instance names will be potentially visible by people on Threads. That is not a credible threat to your privacy in the fediverse - that is just the system of federated social networks working as intended.
Whatever attack vector there is against you already existed before the fediverse or Threads. And Lemmy was never designed or marketed as adequate protection for people who need full-stack privacy.
No no let’s be clear about the threat model we are discussing here : the possibility for Meta to de-anonymize me in a way that might hurt me, although i don’t have accounts on Meta properties. That is a pipe dream. Even the example on the top of the article has nothing to do with federation it’s just about a Meta property communicating your data to another Meta property which, no shit, Sherlock.
There is no technical proof that our identities on the fediverse are in danger because of Threads. Litterally zero. There is barely any functioning threat model, and the authors of this one admit readily, in the abstract of the paper, that these models would apply to any bad actor. They just take Threads as a notorious example.
Now, is Lemmy particularly subject to paranoid thinking, or are some trolls shilling on Lemmy to decredibilize the solution, i don’t know. But this is all wild speculation.
Also digg peaked at maybe 8 million users which is a much more manageable migration.
That’s just fear mongering based on extremely contrived examples. It also has nothing to do with federation, it is trivial for any actor, whatever their resources, to access all the information in the fediverse.
Don’t be a boomer. Leverage security in public. Have alts and personas. Stay focused instead of falling for corporate astroturfing that tries to decredibilize new initiatives.
I think it might be the opposite. If extreme content is kind of “default” when the algorithm doesn’t know what to give you, them starving it off history might push it into that default more often. I have a very used YouTube account with a metric ton of history and honestly I very rarely see that kind of content. (From Europe though so it might be different)
But America is like the most right wing developed country 🤔
Based and you-can’t-propagandize-with-a-mouthful-of -broken-teeth pilled
Idk it’s pretty common. Where i live, most people above 35 have gotten at least once in a fight with skinheads, and some did it every weekend for the giggles.
Exactly. I paid 15 bucks 12 years ago and got god knows how many thousands of hours out of it
I’m right there with you. I can already foresee that their apps will be prioritizing monetized users like content creators and everything in there will be a transaction of some sort. Who cares, you just have to block their instances and go about your merry way.
I think the immune system is federation itself. Everything is in the open, users have the control, how do you develop a competitive advantage in that context? I think it’s the end of “winner takes all”.
The whole point of open protocols is that anyone can use it. Just block any instance you don’t like and you’re good!
No seriously I always install Ubuntu on work machines and they got more breakage in the past couple of years than my arch machine.