yeah everything you post on Mastodon is public. I assume this is about the data being collected on you, which Mastodon doesn’t do, there’s no telemetry and such.

What exactly is the cooperation that Signal was doing beforehand? Signal claims to collect very little data so I’m not sure how exactly they help?

Hehe I just had my first session with GAM Medical, heard of them last week, went really fast.

Good article with some valid concerns.

The ending though.

We’re still bullish on the fediverse, and on Bluesky, if it manages to become a truly federated platform.

Anybody who thinks Bluesky actually wants to give up control of their platform is nuts

Also in Germany, undiagnosed.

There is an ADHD clinic close to me - They sent me a bunch of forms to fill out. Not form-fillable PDFs. They expected me to go to a print shop, print it, fill it out, scan it, and email it back. About 8 months later I ended up just learning how to write texts into PDFs because I kept forgetting and postponing. Now to wait “up to 24 months” for the first appointment, what a joke.

at this point youre so downvoted, you might as well provide the deeper reasoning

Wow! Finally somebody invented an efficient way for two computers to talk to each other

wasn’t there a thing recently where it became clear they do listen?

Isn’t DaVinci Resolve closed source?

No not unencrypted traffic. Any traffic. If a subpoena comes in like “hey this IP did a piracy pls tell us who it was” there is no way for us to answer that. Any VPN that doesn’t have that is a scam. Sadly, a lot of them are.

no we don’t lol. There’s no way for us to connect an account to any of the traffic on our nodes.

I applaud your mistrust though.

I’m not sure. When in doubt, use protection right? I know at least a couple where it is illegal

In most jurisdictions, piracy is illegal no?

Whether you really need a VPN depends on where you live. When in doubt, use one

I work for a VPN company. There may be many shitty VPN companies that do keep logs, but not all of them.

You just need to pick the right ones, ideally audited ones.

Also, VPNs are absolutely required in some countries if you’re using public torrents. Even if they’re not required in your country right now, you’re still advertising that you’re doing illegal stuff if you don’t use one.

they don’t sell your data. advertisers just pick out the target audience and meta places the ads for them. This is the way google and meta have been doing ads for a while. Actually selling your data is illegal.

They still use your data to push ads so it’s a violation of privacy. Just wanna get the facts straight.

Unless there’s been some leak recently I’m unaware of?

don’t have netflix, hoping there’s a torrent or something :D

bcrypt… with how many iterations? seems like an important detail

gulag for everybody who thinks this is news. The guy is literally a fascist and we are supposed to be angry about how his humanoid robots look kinda human? who tf cares

The ad revenue part is true but what do you mean by not harvesting data? Mastodon definitely stores your boosts and likes, it just doesn’t use that data to recommend more content. And the big difference is of course that it is stored on your instance’s server, not a centralized location.