What does this mean? I use a VPN

Get mad at the system of patriarchy that created this situation

I was on reddit over 10 years and both the actions of the ownership (enshittification, silencing of dissent) and the crossover into more mainstream usage (it became too popular for its own good) had soured it. The final straw was when myself and other moderators who protested the API changes with subreddit blackouts were forcefully removed and replaced with stooges who would do the bidding of the masters. Reddit is just a platform and all of it’s value came from us the users and our generated content, which they now own and sell to enrich themselves and feed evil corporate AIs.

Lemmy is freedom from that. Its smaller and less active, but the atmosphere and community is much stronger IMO, despite some other commenters who feel its just as toxic. And most importantly the federated model means no one can take ownership of the whole thing and ignore its users concerns.

In conclusion, fuck Spez.

I will never verify my age online with a picture of my face. Its astounding people go along with this

Crazy to see someone jailed for a tweet

Jokes on them, I quit using gmail

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I use Lemmy only, no reddit and no Facebook/Instagram/Twitter etc

Thanks for calling me hardcore

This motherfucker

Nice try, Hollywood

Well I don’t use any Meta apps.
But I have to use SMS for certain people

So all in all, would you say my messages are more likely to be captured by Meta when using WhatsApp, or SMS? I ask in good faith. I am aware SMS isn’t secure, but at least it isn’t literally hosted by Meta… So if Meta was my main concern for my threat model would you still recommend WhatsApp?

I went in with this being my strategy too, but ended up just sticking with using /all and not bothering with my subs.

Once you’ve got anything undesirable blocked, you’re golden. And always finding new communities.

If you trust Meta not to snoop, which I dont

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/whatsapp-end-to-end-encrypted-messages-arent-that-private-after-all/

How private can WhatsApp be if Meta owns it?

Signal for those who have it and SMS for everyone else

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Good one. People do still say “hold fast”!

You mean after the sex?

This is kind of hilarious. Right wingers seek to limit privacy by forcing age verification online, and then the right wing social network gets caught in the same net. It hurt itself in it’s confusion.