Element became unusable for me when I realized that it takes around 18% of my phone battery per day while being idle in the background without being opened even once. Absolutely insane for a simple chat app.
Wanted to like neochat and I still use it as I use KDE, but functionality is limited with no VoIP or jitsi, there are always a bunch of visual bug like gigantic icons, or other bugs like content not loading so all you get is a bunch of chat room use profile changed or enter/exits…
Eh, yes and no. I personally loathe that type of media but certainly several hundred million people do not, so it would be nice if there was an alternative for them.
There is none yet that I know of.
But I think something has to be said as well: the problem with copying to the T the most popular social networks is that those are designed to be deliberately predatory and addictive, many parts of their design is implemented in alternatives without even thinking what it really means for the users, because it has become second nature to us and they also feel good, but are mostly detrimental exactly for that and I’m the first to say that I keep falling for it, spending hours on end on my phone. Think infinite scrolling, instant notifications, etc.
While it’s good to have the option, if we want a healthier social media experience, it doesn’t suffice to decentralize it, we also need to think of at least better defaults, then let the users decide for themselves if they want a more addicting experience
Technically true, but in practice, it’s very vulnerable to conglomeration of power by a few. Social media, for one: it’s not exactly a matter of quality to get users to use your platform. Beyond a certain threshold of minimum quality, people use and stay on a certain platform because the people they know are on it, such that it becomes a chicken and egg problem. Other than that, Google have such a ludicrous market share of web advertising (which unfortunately remains the primary method of monetising the web) that it’s very difficult to not use Google’s advertising, giving them immense power to surveil and monitor people. Google Chrome, which remains the most popular browser for reasons that elude me, has so much sway over the internet that it had the courage to even propose the idea of WEI. The infrastructure on which the entite internet runs are controlled by just a handful of massive ISPs, yet another centralisation of power.
“Connected” e-scooters and e-bikes that use apps to control their functions also have the ability to collect data (including location) for use in ways that could be abused/sold/stolen.
Most lemmy instances have the same UI and most people use apps for lemmy…
Also you don’t have to worry about federation, thats for your instance admin (Wintermute) to worry about. If you want to be federated with basically everything Shitjustworks is your choice
I do have to worry about federation of my instance mods decide to have a feud with another instance where I subscribe to subs. Also the UI is wonky for linking to different instances, like I’m never logged in when clicking on a link to a different instance. It’s just very crude right now. Plus discovery is kind of a pain, topics get spread over different instances…
Yes. I personally think the biggest instance should have at most a quarter of user base. They have a lot of authority in Lemmy now and can rule out other players very easily unfortunately.
It’s even more comprehensive than that. They don’t even want you to have it, even though it’s data about your use of your vehicle. If you want to use a third party telematics system or just hook up a laptop with software to pull the data, the manufacturers ironically cite data privacy risks as the reason they want to lock down the data so nobody but them can provide access.
What’s stopping someone from just sending public keys or something through Signal and encrypting their messages that way? There’s no way to enforce this with such simple loopholes present. We shouldn’t be focusing on breaking privacy and instead invest in helping existing victims in ways that actually matter.
Whilst I agree with your sentiment, this isn’t how end-to-end encrypted chats work. Otherwise, it would be impossible to know the messages you’re receiving are coming from the person you think they are.
I suppose you’re right, but forging that kind of thing would be difficult, also considering the PKI already in place. If someone has their own email server and they sign/encrypt their email, and host their public key on a key server somewhere, it’s highly unlikely that all three would be compromised. and even if that fails, you could just meet up with them and exchange flash drives with keys.
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