Maybe because of centralization? The article is fine though.
But...I kinda agree with the downvoters. I think federation is the real way to create safe spaces for people. Centralization just does not seem like the way.
Having a minority founder doesn't inherently mean the site will be safe. Everyone has biases and prejudices.
So, for everyone that doesn't know, in mozilla's own words:
About *Privacy Not Included:
*Privacy Not Included is a buyers guide focused on privacy rather than price or performance. Launched in 2017, the guide has reviewed hundreds of products and apps. It arms shoppers with the information they need to protect the privacy of their friends and family, while also spurring the tech industry to do more to safeguard consumers.
This looks like it's from the aifund thing he is a part of, but it seems like they took that part out. I have never worked for of those companies so idk 🤷♂️.
Imo, Andrew Ng is actually a cool guy. He started coursera and deeplearning.ai to teach ppl about machine/deep learning. Also, he does a lot of stuff at Stanford.
File storage (as opposed to something like email) doesn't seem to have a massive infrastructure that I have to participate in. I don't have to trust a third party with my data.
I'd probably just encrypt my data before going into any of the clouds, which should keep it secure (with something like rclone).
To send data to someone, I'd probably use onionshare or something.
I think there a bunch of mispronunciations. OP seems to be referring to the "new" mispronounciation, while I was referring to the spelling out mispronunciation.
I also think they're on the right track (and a better track than apps like telegram - lots of negative social baggage). They really have gotten much farther than any other privacy focused apps.
I don't know, maybe I have a more optimistic view of the situation. It feel like they're knocking on the door of going fully mainstream.
Signal: Because I want better messaging, and somehow they already achieved some adoption.
Firefox: If Firefox can somehow make their browser miles ahead of chrome, I think that'd be just plain good for the world.
Gitea/Forgejo: I think Github is another one of these centralized platforms that's pretty ripe for disruption (and gitlab is just not gonna do it).
Lemmy: It'd be amazing to have all the kinks ironed out of lemmy.
Mastodon: Same thing as lemmy. Get social media out of the hands of big companies.
Mail-in-a-box: I want to be able to host my own email if I want to. Proton is great, but isn't email supposed to be an open standard?
Framework: Not exactly a software project, but man I'd love to see them get the time to push out a ton of great different products and really spark the right to repair movement. It's the first device I was actually excited to buy.
Linux Mint: I don't use mint, but it seems like one of the most user friendly distros. I would love for them to make everything perfect and create a seamless experience (and really make a year of the linux desktop). I also think it would be great to just have one clear frontrunner for new users.
Coreboot: Make firmware open source? Yes please.
Truly Open Source LLM: I really don't want this tech to be in just the hands of just a big company. I'd love for there to be an LLM that has not only it's weights open, but the full dataset, training methods and everything open.
I think when you just get 10 years of dev time, you get an opportunity to push a project ahead of all it's competitors. It is kind of interesting to get to pick and choose a project to be the frontrunner (even if they aren't currently).
...and definitely not capitally punish them