Freesoftwareenjoyer @ Freesoftwareenjoyer @lemmy.world

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Thanks. A license is missing in your repository, but I'm sure you will add it eventually.

That's why those platforms still exists and why many of us still have to use some of them even if we don't want to. I don't want to use YouTube for example, but I have to, because creators won't switch to PeerTube. They prefer to be abused by a corporation than to try to change something.

You can start by learning about Free Software: https://youtu.be/Ag1AKIl_2GM. You might not have heard of it, since it has only been around for over 30 years.

What if we can't make it more approachable? Should we forever rely on corporations and their unethical platforms to be able to communicate? Just because people aren't willing to learn a few very basic things?

This is not a problem with the technology, but with people.

I'm sorry, but it's really not complicated. It's not even anything new. Our society is just bad with technology.

We need to build a strong society that isn't dependent on big corporations for being able to do the most basic things like talking to each other. The usability issues seem like a tiny price to pay for that and for privacy and freedom of speech. Those people can join Mastodon any time if they wish. But if Facebook manages to destroy the Fediverse, there will be no freedom for anyone.

The average person doesn't understand modern technology even on a basic level. Most people don't know what Free Software is or what end-to-end encryption is and you can't have privacy without those two. And those things have existed for decades. What about more complicated topics such as cryptocurrencies or AI? It's easy to see that most people don't understand them either.

So when it comes to some basic aspects of modern technology, most people are decades behind. Sometimes I even meet software developers who don't fully understanding those topics.

This isn't choosing what's right for you. This is having no standards. Most of our society is like this when it comes to software for no good reason. Think how much better the world could be if people cared.

Threads got 80 million users in 48h. Those people are not gonna use Mastodon anyway. They don't care about their privacy, they don't care that some proprietary algorithm is gonna decide what they will see, they don't care that it's Facebook. Those people have no standards. The only way we can help them is by educating them and if that doesn't change their mind, then there is nothing we can do, because freedom and privacy is not something they value. People who value them are capable of making a small sacrifice of not using some website when an alternative exists.

Facebook either just wants to use the Fediverse for their own benefit or they want to destroy it before it becomes a bigger competitor. We shouldn't risk all that we have built just because we live in an ignorant society that doesn't understand technology.

Do you at least encrypt those documents?

What is the alternative?