Off-Grid LorekeeperDec 3

Telegram isn’t a privacy app.
Default chats aren’t end-to-end encrypted, messages sit on Telegram’s servers, and “Secret Chats” aren’t default.

Great for groups — not for private conversations.

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Off-Grid LorekeeperDec 1

Public servants are meant to be transparent. Private citizens are meant to be… private. Flip that, and you don’t have a democracy anymore — you have surveillance.

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Show threadJupiter RowlandAug 14, 2024
@The Nexus of Privacy

About point 4


No can do, at least not support for Black instances. That's because all Black instances are Mastodon instances.

I do not support Mastodon. I hate Mastodon with a burning passion, and I hate the wide-spread notion that Mastodon is absolutely the bee's knees even more. My support for Mastodon is limited to filing bugs on its GitHub repository when it misbehaves in interaction with Hubzilla or (streams).

I will so much not support anyone's stay on this utter piece of crud.

Don't get me wrong. The reason why I won't support them is not because they're Black. It's because they're Mastodon.

And besides, you've written yourself that a Black instance is a ghetto. The kind of ghetto that Black people don't want anyone to tell them to move to. Even if they've chosen themselves to have their Fediverse homes there, it's a ghetto all right.

This is also one of the reasons I will no longer suggest (streams) to the Black community, regardless of whether it might actually be a solution for parts of their imminent problems. I'm not going to tell anyone where to move. Even an unsolicited suggestion, even as little as mentioning the existence of a potential Mastodon alternative and its advantages over Mastodon is passive-aggressive.

Even if someone wished "the Fediverse", read, Mastodon to have a certain feature that'd greatly improve safety and privacy, and Hubzilla and (streams) had this feature readily available right now (and this has happened in this very thread), I would no longer mention them unless maybe in a purely white cis-het discussion. Mentioning them to Black people would be like trying to nudge them into a ghetto. And supporting ghettos in any way or other is racist.

Seeing as how much damage any attempt by a non-Mastodon user at helping can deal, it's safer for all involved to not do anything and let people continue believing the Fediverse is only Mastodon.

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Netzgemeinde/Hubzilla

Anti-authoritarianJun 18, 2023
In the eyes of a non-admin fedizen, filling the fediverse up with more membership fees and ads would make this place very close to what the bluesky social benefit company is trying to be in some respects. Conversation and acceptance of this direction on the mastodon server I often use has me thinking about finding a new social media home. I do see how this fediverse vision would still offer more freedom and perks to admin, but I am not sure if such a vision of the fediverse would offer the average user much benefits over the social media litigation avoidance cabal that will be known as the bluesky social network unless you can selfhost or pay for membership fees on the fediverse.

Also this surveillance capitalist infested and exclusive fedi vision also seems a great way to drive users to zuckerberg's meta platform Inc's fedi projects such as threads/p92/ Barcelona or whatever which will probably always offer cheaper memberships or have the development funds to offer a better feature set if there is any market for them here.

Saying that poor people who can't afford membership fees should have a reduced feature set or be constantly surveilled or spied upon seems pretty classist to me and not very social.

I am really starting to question the motivations/judgment of admins who push such a fedi vision.

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Akkoma

Mitex LeoMay 28, 2023
#DeGoogle war is getting harder and harder. #Goolag is Disabling any account that was used to login to Aurora Store.
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