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  • Freedom can’t exist without Privacy

    Of course it can. They are simply 2 unrelated concepts. Expressing yourself on reddit was like going into public space, and yelling whatever you had in mind. Doing so on fediverse is the same, but with microphones picking up your yelling to propagate it around the world.
    You can have Freedom to express yourself while respecting your privacy: just don’t yell it (i.e. chose a closed private invite only community) or go to som remote forest / desert where there is nobody to hear you yell. Join an invite-only group/room on signal or matrix.

    Freedom and Privacy can only exist with common sense.


  • You don’t have the option of having a phone with decent specs and replaceable parts

    For now it is indeed an issue. It may get better as EU imposes easily replaceable batteries for instance.

    You have to have really good knowledge in tech to have private services that are on par with what the big companies offer

    Well yes, because technology is complicated by nature. BigTech inject billions in making stuff simple and UX pleasant precisely to attract layman customers. Privacy-focused tech companies have less money, put a lot of effort in privacy tech, and are less mature UX-wise than classic bigTech. Customers also want more privacy, but have a hard time paying for anything. At some point the customer has to come to terms with coherence. Vote with your wallet.

    You have to put up with annoying compatibility issues if you install a custom ROM on your android phone

    No you don’t necessarily. LineageOS works perfectly on my Oneplus 6T.

    You cannot escape apps preventing you from using them if you root your device

    Yes you can. Magisk Root + Universal SafetyNet Fix v2.4.0-MOD_1.2 (by kdrag0n, modded by Displax) + editing the deny list properly.

    Cars are becoming SaaS bullcrap

    Use public transport when possible. Rent cars when really not possible. Problem solved.

    Everything is going for a subscription model in general

    I understand it’s frustrating. At the same time we either expect a constant stream of updates, or everything-IT requires regular updating if only for security purposes. Companies have employees to pay. Do you work for free?















  • Unfortunately, this decentralisation of basically what used to be 1 thematic sub into multiple clones “because it’s technically possible” is just not what most users are looking for. That is why Reddit was ONE website with such a large amount of knowledge. The human brain likes to centralise stuff in one place. That is why when we put away stuff and clean our own homes, we tend to put all the forks together, all the knives together, all the glasses together… Centralisation is a way to break down complexity of what would otherwise be chaos, by factorizing it.
    If you’ve got 50 different “gaming” instances instead of one, basically the very “gaming” word becomes irrelevant, and users will have to memorise the names of the 50 different hosting instances instead.

    Also, on a pure tecnical standpoint, the “federation” aspect is currently simply not true: I get “The magazine from the federated server may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.” warning message when I try to access most magazines that are not hosted on kbin.social.