TikTok is not the problem. The problem is "I have nothing to hide" mindset. People don't care about privacy because "ignorance is bliss". Some people are just not aware about risks of giving up on privacy and other put continence over privacy. Until the general perception of privacy changes, apps like TikTok will thrive.
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Remember kids: unless the social media site is owned by a US company, it's a bad social media site.
The billionaires in the US are good guys and don't sell your info.
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The answer is to not use social media.
Said I, on Lemmy. Heck, some even call IRC social media.
I would use an activity pub Lemmy verse Facebook
I would never use anything Zuck touches
Cool, what's a reasonable replacement?
For social media you don't care about being private in, Mastodon. For large chat groups like Slack, Matrix. For private communication: SimpleX + PGP
Slrpnk just feels like masked up tankies. They're even opaquely opposing the TikTok ban lol.
You really couldn't be further from the truth. Solarpunk is a firmly anarchist ideology, to the point of mild annoyance. There are plenty of reasons to oppose the TikTok ban that have nothing to do with ML.
For supposed anarchists they seem to say exactly the same things as a CCP cuck would. They banned me for arguing on a meme they posted about how awful "Western Democracies" are.
I'm surprised this was published in Foreign Policy.
I was surprised by that too.
It's almost impossible to get a darn email server installed and working. And it's a matter of time before it gets hacked according to everyone who says not to do it yourself.
So as of now, phone numbers are a joke for communication. Email is something you can use but it takes a whole department to keep fake emails from stealing your data at work and you can't host it at home. So forever email will be a thing you can't have at home with a simple click install. We need something different.
Self hosting email is a bitch, but professional email hosting is pretty darn cheap. A hosting provider may not be perfect but at least their business is protecting your data and not selling it, paying for a product with money instead of your data.
And that's my whole hisifit with email. Number 1, I literally haven't used email for anything personal at all for a long long time. So maybe it's not even worth trying to get emails to be stored sent and received from my house. But one thing I would like to try is to setup a webmail system at my house to receive my Gmail emails so I can erase them from Gmail but still have them available for search if I want. That would be a good compromise. It's amazing to me that no easy to install server exists right now that can do this. I think round cube can do it but it beats me how to get that done.
Alternative?!?? But I want this clout!
An alternative, if an alternative could ever even be viable, would just be open to the same corruption and greed. We need regulation and laws to protect privacy and data. Regulate it such that companies are not allowed to retain private and unconsented data without severe legal or financial penalties. Severe enough that companies or individuals that abuse the rights of people are either shut down and dissolved or jailed.
Tbh, I just don’t like TikTok. Getting rid of it is kinda tempting.
Ye ye, I get u all, but lemmie have some lil joy out of this situation.
Banning TikTok is stop people learning about what's going on in Palestine and Zionist control of the US government. Nothing to do with keeping anyone safe.
Totally. Genocide support 101. Just check the timeline on this anti-tiktok campaign.
I always try to explain to people that tiktok bans were laughed at for like at least two years, then as soon as Bidens unwavering support for genocide starting spreading on the platform that shit got passed in under a month.
TikTok, the only thing between the Palestinians and the gas chamber.
I know another thng that will stop them and it rhymes with guillotine.
But will it finally convince people that vertical videos are horrible and short form content obliterates your attention span?
I know the answer is no, but an old man can dream.
I shouldn't feed the troll, but....
Why are vertical videos bad?
Vertical videos have their place but still kinda suck…however I always think of this video.
Vertical videos are a thing because phones are vertical screens
Or, we could, you know, mulch every fucking one of the bastards and rejoice in a world free of their self-indulgent bullshit.
Oh wait, I keep forgetting, a shitton of you still worship billionaires.
I don't worship them! I just follow their every move and emulate them in my daily life. They are in fact chosen by god himself.
You don't get it... If I don't defend Musk and Bezos, then I have to admit I'm being fucked over. Then I have to actually deal with the reality that life is completely out of my control except for collective bargaining and class consciousness.
That takes a lot of unlearning and reformulating to do, and a lot of grace towards myself for falling for propaganda and that rails against my rugged individualism as I have been taught since childhood.
All of this takes time and effort, as well as the mentioned patience and acceptance that I am not the sole master of my own destiny. That my parents were taught a lie and lied to me, and so did their parents.
So I believe i n sunk cost fallacies and worship said billionaires.
Don't worry pal, it certainly does take time. So much fucking time. You'll have way too much time to get use to everything while waiting for that class consciousness. Even then, when you've grasped the concept entirely, more time.
You can tell who read the article and who didn't based on whether their comment is about the TikTok ban (which wasn't actually the focus of the article at all).
Anyway, GetGee sounds like an interesting project but it wasn't clear to me how work has actually been accomplished to date. Is it just a proposal at this stage? The website is pretty bad and doesn't provide much in the way of recent updates or information.
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