Better yet, have a de-Google’d phone and don’t connect it to the car. Don’t see why it is “better” not to have one at all.

Yeah, don’t ever connect your phone to your car. It has been proven that they steal all your data.

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Bunch of monkeys. I completely support it if Israel/the West just completely level the Gaza Strip/Palestine and make it part of Israel.

Oh I have nothing against it at all, I just have no interest in watching them lol

Nothing elitist by any means. I’d love for everybody to come enjoy the Fediverse - it’s a cool place. But to be realistic, we all know that most people are too stupid to ever realize how much Big Tech platforms suck

I don’t even know what that means, so I guess I’ll never know. Perfectly content with my blissful ignorance haha

Good. I don’t want to see some teenagers doing some dumb dance or whatever is on normie platforms.

Because then there would need to be a centralized entity to host all user accounts, and we don’t want centralization 'round here

It doesn’t matter. You shouldn’t go to an instance just because it has the most members. If we do that, we’ll end up ruining the Fediverse, because the platforms will just become centralized. In stead, find one that aligns the most with your values/content you want to see.

So what is the most de-googled one?

I am not talking about the posts. Of course those are public, as they should. There’s a big difference between data I willingly put out vs. metadata and the likes.

There’s a huge difference between what I choose to put out in public vs. data that’s being collected on me just by browsing the site. Saying “it’s just the world we live in” is just an excuse to ignore the real issues. It is more crucial now than ever that we create a system that’s by and for the people, not Big Tech and governments.

I don’t see why this would hurt us. But even if it did, I would rather take the blow than associate with Big Tech again.

Anonymity is not the reason why many platforms have turned into “dumpster fires”. Have you checked Facebook lately? People literally use their real names while lighting the whole dumpster on fire. No, privacy is more important now than ever. If I had to list all the ways our data is being used against us nowadays, I would exceed the character allowance on here. The short version is that historically, time periods were named after the materials civilization made their weapons out of (stone age, bronze age, etc.). That’s the reason why the current time period is called the Information Age. Data/information is the biggest weapon we have nowadays, and that’s why it’s critical that we protect it with all means possible if we want to retain our freedom.

Yeah exactly. And I am not an expert in this field either, but of course there’s a solution, one way or another. The purpose of my above comment was simply just to call out the mindset of a lot of the people on here, whom obviously have no clue about FOSS and privacy, but simply just came over from Reddit. We are at war against Big Tech these days. Our privacy is at risk and our data is being used for population control. It is vital that we have projects like the Fediverse that can counter this, but we will only be successful and win this war if we can implement some true privacy.

So you think this is just my problem? No, this is the entire community’s problem. Sticking your head in the sand and pretending like everything is okay is the mindset that has caused so many great freedom-oriented software projects to fail. If you are not on board with creating a better system for the future internet, then why are you even here?

There’s a huge difference between Reddit keeping our data “locked away” on their private server vs. a system that puts it all out in public view. You can bet your behind that Big Tech and governments are harvesting ALL of it as we speak. This is MUCH worse than Reddit just selling some data to a few third party actors.

Sure, but Signal is more of just a replacement for WhatsApp and the likes. It can’t be compared to this type of platform really.

I’m hoping that ALL admins across the Fediverse will defederate from Meta. At least we get to have our own separate platform then.