And by continuing to use it,
it will stay that way.
Just don't, plenty of other 2nd hand sites out there, with plenty of products available.
Rikj000
joined 2 years 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.
It does seem interesting,
but I remain skeptical.
This means putting your trust in Obscura, since they're the 1st hop, receiving your data without additional encryption, a new player, who yet has to prove that they're trustworthy.
Sure their Github may show great software, but that doesn't mean we can see which software they might additionally install on their servers.
Meanwhile Mullvad has already been proven to be trustworthy through the best possible review any VPN company can receive, being: Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.
Which proves they back up their claim of being a No-Log VPN.
Due to this I trust Mullvad,
and don't have any issues with sending them my data.
But I can't put the same faith in Obscura yet, not before they receive a similar "review".
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.
For those that don't know:
It was a jump-scare flash game.
The goal was to navigate through the maze with your mouse, without touching the walls, which gets harder near the end, likely resulting in you getting closer to and concentrating hard on the screen.
Near the end they flashed a horror image and blasted a loud sound through your speakers.
Personally, it didn't make me flinch much though,
but I guess it affected some others like OP.
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!
If the fines regarding to it are in proportion with the revenue of the business, then it likely would make a lot of them think twice about doing so.
I agree that it's hard to enforce the rules,
and that some would still ignore them.
However updating the rules give the abused people a chance of getting justice/consolidation for their stolen work, and diminishes the chance of companies breaking the rules.
It would not combat bit torrent (P2P) piracy.
But that's also not that important imo.
Most pirates are rather poor folks,
just trying to watch/play some content which they can't afford, they make up for a rather neglible amount of the profit that can be had.
However it would combat billion dollar companies that would use pirated content to train LLMs to sell further. All they need is x1 internal whistleblower about doing so, and they could be fined with an amount larger then the risk is worth.
No copyright law seems dangerous to me,
why create content if you can just steal it,
and earn on the back of the original creator without consequences?
I think I'd rather see it updated instead.
E.g. To hold AI companies and users accountable.
So they need explicit approval of copyright holders before they're allowed to train upon / use their data.
Might be a split '.apk' file (aka '.apks'),
for which you can try SAI (Split APKs Installer, to backup + restore):
https://f-droid.org/packages/com.aefyr.sai.fdroid/
Might be due to a check to see if the app was installed from the PlayStore,
for which you can try KingInstaller (Spoofs as PlayStore, does not work for split APKs, to restore):
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.example.kinginstaller
Might be due to custom licensing check,
then you'd need to decompile, reverse engineer and write a bypass.
I've written a guide for Eternity in the past,
still works fine to filter my All + Subscriptions feed:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026