I think here might biased to think so, because many are people that have flex from other social media sites. Like I'm full time Lemmy now after years of Reddit because of the API change.
They are generally mutually beneficial. Counter surveillance benefits from supporting privacy prevents malicious actors from exploiting the members of a nation. So I lean heavily towards supporting privacy as a matter of supporting both. The exceptions are in the true extremes in which, even after serious deliberation in a democratically agreed apon system, the demand for exposure is too high to ignore.
I disabled shorts and went through my front page and said to not show me stupid addictive content and then also took two weeks off. I also used libredirect addon on Firefox to redirect all YouTube links to inviduos so that if a link somewhere took me there I didn't get sucked right back.
Buying and collecting non actionable data to your companies immediate goals is a large business expense that should actually compared to benefits it brings you. It also represents an increased liability on your part, as securing that data against malicious, including state actors, is now on you to handle.
The ideal should be to minimize data storage and collection and maximize the amount of processing done your customer's hardware, for both reduction of CAPX and to get your time from collection to action for the customer as low as possible.
There is a difference between the of power the state and larger corporations can exert to get "consent" to waive our rights, hence the need for unwaivable (or near unwaivable) rights.
This idea of treating corporations the same as people is why when you accept EULAs it's treated the same as if you agreed to agreeing to let a person you know to have the same info.
Oh man PWA as a replace to traditional apps have been promised for a while.
On one hand the promise of write once run anywhere on the other less ability to lock down your app from your users (good for us, but not popular in the mobile space at the moment)
It's super cool that it supports this, heck I've used it when no other options were there (and thank git I could! It made a nightmare into just a little more work instead).
I will say though, it's most of the other software forge features that people normally talk about adding Activity Pub support for (issues tracking, merge requests, tracking forks, CI tooling, handling documentation, etc).
We need to have an honest conversation and additional amendments as to limitations as to businesses incorporated with the State should have imposed on them. They are clearly apart of what anyone would call "the state" IMHO.
There is also the reduction of dependencies on non-democratic institutions for the government to function! The America first policy held by the US for a few years triggered a lot of planning from governments to increase their ability to sovereign from the states.
Awesome stuff! This is something that major already know, but governments are learning. You can actually invest in FOSS, and unlike renting software you can make improvements that will better fit what you need it to do and not have to pay more for privilidge in the future.
And for everyone saying KDE as opposed to Gnome, they work together you dinguses! It's a friendly competition at times, but being FOSS they can and do easily learn and grow from each other.
I am in the boat that it could be a great thing, but it's the systems around that just currently don't have the level of trust to really leverage it.
If local AI used with systems with absolutely minimal storage and good p2p levels of permission were used and laws to minimize abuse by the state and corporations were in place it would different.
By example the opposite of what Ring represents would be good to me.
For me I've had issues with getting organzational support for use anything close to p2p, with things like "keep that bot net off my system" being said. On personal side I had issues with ISPs assuming traffic was illegal in nature and sending me bogus cease and desist notices.
Agreed though. At least webrtc has a strong market. IPFS and other web3 things also have tried to find footholds in common use, so the fight isn't over for sure!
Flatpaks and containers really are the next step forward for reasons like this.