Rikj000
@Rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de
Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!
- Comment on The Fediverse Isn’t the Future. It’s the Present We’ve Been Denied. 1 month ago:
I lately have a saying: “If it’s not FOSS, it’s not worth your time”
- Comment on Sounds crazy but... maybe you shouldn't delete Facebook just yet 2 months ago:
OP I appreciate the reasoning.
But I’d advise against it,
and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.
The platform is a data farm,
but I’m a data privacy advocate,
so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.
But if I posted a dumb meme,
it would get a lot of attention.I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.
So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.
However deleting your account,
is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools. - Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 2 months ago:
That’s nice and all,
but when will they tackle loot boxes?That shit has pushed plenty of minors into gambling addictions, but they don’t crack down on it, since they get a sweet cut of it all.
Valve in general isn’t the worst company,
but they’re far from innocent as well. - Comment on The rise of ethical social media: can open-source alternatives challenge the tech giants? | The Optimist Daily 2 months ago:
Yes Fediverse software can challenge the tech giants,
but we can and must expect them to fight against it as soon as it gets on their radar!They’ll likely will attempt to do so by:
- Censorship: Keeping it out of the feeds/search results of their users.
- Propaganda: Putting it in a bad spotlight (e.g. marking it as security risks on their own platforms).
- Direct Attacks: E.g. DDoS attacks and/or bot user networks spreading bad content on the Fediverse platforms.
We should already try to harness ourselves against the direct attacks.
And help with spreading Fediverse software through WOM (Word-Of-Mouth) marketing,
since the tech giants certainly will not help it spread themselves.The Fediverse is one of the few sparks of hope I have remaining lately,
let us ignite these sparks together into something bright! - Comment on Google Showing Fewer AI Overviews In Search 4 months ago:
Good, only 96% to go.
- Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 5 months ago:
That’s true,
but hey, filtering and blocking out 90% of the unwanted/negative content is already way better then getting blasted by the full 100%! :D - Comment on How to improve your Lemmy experience 5 months ago:
Bliss for mental health indeed,
been doing this for a while now,
zero regrets. - Comment on About today's downtime 6 months ago:
New server appears to work well,
thank you for the quick resolve! <3