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[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

...and this is how "rational" people act more irrational than irrational people. Arguments that are reductionist tautological absurdities.

Open source culture is far more transparent and trustworthy than the 100 headed monster Hydra that is Western Big Tech companies, fully armed with neuro scientists and western capitalist media machinery. There are a few bad apples in FOSS culture, but they can be easy to spot for a few people, and that works as long as people actually listen to those few people.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Take a chill pill.

All I'm saying is whatever the service, be careful what you post online. We assume the people hosting fediverse services have a code of ethics or that they have our best interests or privacy at heart. Or even that they have the time and know how to protect our data.

But we should still consider the opposite and take the necessary precautions.

[–] TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.ml 2 points 8 months ago

I am good, it just sounded very absurd. There is no "both sides" in credibility of open source vs closed source ecosystems.

I think we can judge Lemmy instances dependingly, for example I trust the dev instance and Lemmygrad instance quite a lot and stick to them. I distrust instances like Lemmyworld, lemmy.one and some others. All instances that connect to the ones I use will be able to scrape my comment data, which is public and which is fine (well not but AHs gonna AH) because I teach and advise on OPSEC, stylometry and other stuff.

A much better way to spread the message is telling people how they can be mindful of firstly judging how "public" a space is, and then how and what you type/record and share.