Throwing another example on the fire: The Last of Us Part I PC port. The people who released that code ought to be brought up on charges for climate destruction.
Perhaps not everyone uses the platform the same way you do?
Obviously not, as we can see by the fact that OP uses it to promote their youtube content, but that's irrelevant. You asked why all the comments in response are asking why, and I took a moment to explain. Whether or not you like the answer is up to you. Good day.
Probably because most of us come to forums like this one for discussion. Not to be click-baited into sitting through someone's video exposition.
The video is short and excellent.
OP posted an off-site link with a useless title, and nothing else. No explanation. No synopsis. No point of view. Just an off-site link with a title that tries to bait us into spending our time bolstering their view count for them. That alone is enough to disqualify it as an excellent post in a text forum. If he had written something thoughtful here, them maybe it could have been a valuable post.
You’re right, I’m not really sure if I understand what the article is about. And how it translates to the title and us, the people.
Unfortunately, the headline is misleading. It's possible that the author chose it because gathering an audience by criticising "tech" is easy. It's also possible that she misunderstands the root of the issues she discusses. shrug
The only way I know of to solve the problem is to reclaim our governments, and reform them. Historically, that has been done through democracy and through revolution. The former approach is getting harder, and the way things are going, might disappear if we let them go unchecked for too long.
Did you read the article? It's not really about spyware in the devices we "own". That's just a minor detail.
The problem being discussed comes from governments, laws, and capitalist motives being allowed to systematically exploit people who can easily be exploited. This takes place mostly outside of our devices, so although putting safer software on our devices is absolutely worthwhile, doing so cannot fix this problem.
The Reddit that was once an unmatched source of useful information has been dead for some time. Any good that might still be created there is now drowned in a flood of bots, spam, astroturfing, advertising, manipulation, and ignorance with enormous ego.
IMHO, routing that sewage into our communities here would be a mistake.
Libre software is important, and relates to the article insofar as it can help keep our own devices from spying on us, but software is merely an incidental detail within a larger problem. This is about abusive power structures, bad actors with too much influence, and profit taking precedence over human rights. No software license will solve it.
lemmy.world has too much influence in the lemmyverse already, IMHO.
If the privacyguides mods on lemmy are the same as those on reddit roughly a year ago, I wouldn't recommend their forum. The quality of their guidance was hit & miss, and more than zero of those mods had a habit of using their position to control discourse and push notions that run against individuals' privacy and safety. Once their subreddit was created, they seemed to gradually become more self-serving.
lemmyml is already the dominant privacy community on lemmy, as you noted. Its existence doesn't provide choice.
Sure, but couldn't people be directed there just as well with a pinned message, and maybe a sidebar comment?
My concern is that locking this community would be a bit like tearing up the road behind us when heading off to an uncertain destination.
There are only so many people interested in the topic on Lemmy, and .ml is already the most active community by far.
And? If you think reducing lemmyml's influence requires that a single competing community absorb the others, then I think you are mistaken. If you think that we must choose a single community for each topic that interests us, then I know you are mistaken.
!privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com is effectively new. I joined it when I saw the recent announcement, but it remains to be seen how the community and moderation there will take shape. If it ends up going in a direction that I find unhealthy (as I have seen happen in a few subreddits) it would be nice important to have a place to return to.
People were saying the same thing for decades in response to a small minority warning about government surveillance, often dismissing them with labels like "paranoid". Eventually, Snowden came along and produced the citations, at extreme risk to himself and his loved ones. It's an anomaly that they were ever revealed at all.
History is replete with examples of bad stuff going on for ages before irrefutable evidence of it became widely known. In general, if something can be abused to someone's advantage, it will be, and likely already is.
There’s precious little extra information that a “nefarious” instance can harvest that any basic web scrapper can’t.
You have a point there, but consider also that effective web scraping uses significantly more resources than having the data you want handed to you. Monitoring Lemmy through federation would be much more efficient.
Also, people who freely share details about their personal lives are generally not as particular about social media platforms. They're likely to use whichever one they have heard of the most, or the one on which they already have an account, like Reddit. Lemmy is far from mainstream, so they're not likely to think of it first, if they have heard of it at all.
In English, to dump is (usually) to unload or discard, so its use here is a bit strange. I thought I understood what was meant anyway, but I wasn't sure.
Throwing another example on the fire: The Last of Us Part I PC port. The people who released that code ought to be brought up on charges for climate destruction.