Rusty Shackleford4d ago

Broadcasting your government name, face, & location online. The fall of pen names & anonymity. This is all web2.0+ behavior. It's been extremely strange to see the rise & continued engagement in this behavior.

Being safe on the early web, you learned about 'threat actors', number one was protecting personal identity, not connecting to untrusted servers, watching out for bad / nosy systems administrators, & now? Google openly admits to reading your email & people just, don't care… what happened?

Show threadvox4d ago
@rusty__shackleford search and email should have never been free services
Show threadRusty Shackleford

@tyzias

Search is kind of a wild concept to me. And agreed. Free or otherwise, I advocate people to self host simple services from home for their local community if possible. In the end it raises local interest in hosting & computer sciences. But corporate? As the age old adage in the tech industry goes: if it's free, you're the product. This has all been literally insane to watch unfold.

Also, if I ever provide free service, I'll need 20$ if you want me up at 4am because the server is down.

Apr 2 at 2:57pmFedilab