Notices by Patrick Leavy (patrickleavy@mastodon.social)

@silverpill @jupiter_rowland not sure yet. The other founder of Rebel Tech Alliance (the technical one) would build everything using Elixir if you let him. I'm not a developer by trade do am not so particular.

@jupiter_rowland @silverpill we are thinking of building a federated version of Facebook Groups, so people can leave Meta's cesspit.

What you describe sounds ideal - minus the science fiction at the end (we'd only need cloning/moving within our app initially).

And since it is new software then all the Mastodon problems you describe do not apply. All these features could be baked in from the start. We would need E2EE within the groups (so the host is blind) - just for an added challenge 😁

@jupiter_rowland @silverpill
Steams looks interesting as a base. I think the only thing missing would be the E2EE.
What we're planning is something that would be used by any kind of community - a sports team, a band, an activist group, investigative journalists. They would have their own group, and everything within it would be private to them, but also there's a public newsfeed. E2EE so host is blind.
Logged in you'd see which groups you are properly 'in', and those you just follow for news.

@silverpill oh wow, that seems to have it all! What would it take to get that adopted?

#fedi #askfedi
Is the #ActivityPub protocol any closer to having data portability?
And how about single ID usable in different apps?
And how about E2EE?

Thank you!

😂 gotta love British humour (nonce means paedophile in UK slang)

"LLMs are structurally indifferent to the truth"

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/

Academic journals being invented, and now those citations contain bullshit #AI citations, giving legitimacy to a string of bullshit papers.... Flooding the zone with shit.

The cynic in me thinks this could be deliberate - by those who want to make the 'post-truth age' a reality.

#LLM #academic #research #truth #bigtech

@Gargron I switched to Vivaldi last year, and love it.

I still use Librefox, DDG browser and Ironfox for specific things through.

This is shocking. Even for someone like me who researches this stuff all the time. With a first hand account it's worse than you thought...

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/watched-tracked-targeted-israel-surveillance-gaza.html

#Gaza #palestine #surveillance #bigtech #genocide #israel #deathtech

@sillymickel.bsky.social and take part in this: the #BigTechWalkout2025

https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/the-big-tech-walkout-2025/

Defund the #Broligarchy ! Starve them of data and protect yourself from #surveillance , #pricegouging and #ads in the process.

#privacy #bigtech #surveillancecapitalism #DigitalExodus

Great sign: DON'T BE #SMARTPHONE ZOMBIES

You tell 'em #Japan 😂

#bigtech #addiction #privacy

@Mer__edith in the negotiations do you suggest to them alternative ways that police and security forces could catch bad actors using encrypted services?

I.e. trying harder with investigative work.

If big tech can track us everywhere and predict our behaviour using metadata, why can't the authorities do the same?

The 'small tech' map - it's great to see that so many good alternatives to #bigtech unethical #datarape products exist.

Which will you switch to?

(This map appears on this page of our website: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html , and all these products are linked to in the Alternatives sub-menus)

#privacy #surveillancecapitalism

Great news! #google the monopolistic bully has been kicked in the balls!

https://www.theverge.com/news/650665/google-loses-ad-tech-antitrust-monopoly-lawsuit

Holy crap Cory @pluralistic you should run #DOGE instead of nazi-boy 😂

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/27/beltway-bandits/

This is one HELL of a summary ☝️

But why aren't there people in authority doing this kind of savings overview already?!
Corruption?

It's unclear if Larry Ellison is stating his own opinion here or summarising the main plot points of Dave Eggers' book The Every 😂😬😳

https://archive.is/2025.01.24-150507/https://www.businessinsider.com/larry-ellison-ai-surveillance-keep-citizens-on-their-best-behavior-2024-9

As @pluralistic recently wrote, these billionaires mistake these dystopian novels for business plans 🤦

Great article from @pluralistic explaining why he backs the #FreeOurFeeds campaign.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/23/defense-in-depth/

It makes more sense now, but can someone please explain to me why is costs SO much money to stand up another #Bluesky relay?

@element is the pro version still open source, just with a price tag?

That's fine IMO. I think open source should be paid for by those that can, if the product is good. This is the approach @futo are taking and I see nothing wrong with it. Open to contrary opinions though, as I'm relatively new to the open source world.

My angle is that I want to see money diverted away from #bigtech and towards privacy-respecting open source products we can trust.

#privacy ✅
#surveillancecapitalism 🚫

@eff
Step 1: delete your #facebook account
Step 2: delete your #instagram account
Step 3: don't bother with #Threads
Step 4: relax and move on with your life, enjoying the massive reduction in #creepy
😁

@aral no one likes a bully, especially the Irish, so they're just speaking out against one.

Hopefully they'll speak out against #bigtech bullies that they allowed in to their country.