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[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

EU is not doing it yet, however there is strong push from interested parties within and outside of the EC:

https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/25/who-benefits-inside-the-eus-fight-over-scanning-for-child-sex-content

Including illegal use of targeted advertising / misinformation campaign:

https://eupolicy.social/@ilumium/111226868912928077

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 10 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Look at https://simplex.im/ then. It's work in progress but the design is good.

But I'm glad to have a better Signal client too.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

It's been doing the exact opposite and implementing more targeted advertising after several previous monetization attempts (including a cryptocurrency integration) flopped.

Similarly the feature set is increasingly locked behind "premium" paywall.

It's headed in no good direction if you ask me.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Issue #3580: Make Show Read Posts More Relevant
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3580

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago

Only when requested via special form I believe.

I should prepare a guide on how to take your data with you when quitting Reddit.

For instance when you want to be able to prove that it's your account without disclosing your legal name publicly on Reddit you may use keyoxide.org for cryptographic proof. I think I'll talk to keyoxide folks about a method of obfuscating those proofs so they are harder for Reddit to systematically delete.

I understand not everyone will be willing to go to court for this, but at this point I want enough of us to be able to to get them fined enough for every platform to notice.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

I call BS on that. Large-scale content scraping was already against the TOS to begin with. And you can't kill off slow stealth scraping without also blocking search engine crawlers. Or at least not without hurting the searchability.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

State authorities aren't bound by GDPR. That's something that's explicitly stated in it.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Oh wow, this is great news. I expect there will still be uncomfortably many dubious black boxes left there. But it's certainly a step in the right direction. For me the sticking point with AMD was always shoddy SW/FW/drivers shipped with superior (compared to their biggest competitor anyway) hardware design. It's good to see them conceding that and outsourcing to open source community rather than some dubious third party.

Though for the time being if you want truly open firmware get a POWER chip instead. If you can afford it.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I feel like both of these are extremely location dependent. From my friends across North America I know that network connectivity can be very very poor if you aren't living close to a big city.

And as far your example with school goes, I've seen the polar opposite happen where all kids got a mandatory Teams or Google account (depending on school) fairly early into the lockdowns.

Maybe subcontinents are still too big to generalize about from one person's experience. :-)

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Enter https://yourinstance.example.com/c/somecommunity@otherinstance.example.com into your URL bar and it should come up after a bit and let you subscribe. Some instances have blacklists you can find under the "Instances" link down bottom, but usually this should do the trick.

[–] ccx@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm probably missing something, but wouldn't it be far easier to redirect people to install page of extension for their respective browser? Such extension could then transform the button as needed to point to whichever social web instance.

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