Google can’t keep malware off the platform now, but sure, make it mandatory you can’t go anywhere else unless they say so first.

Switzerland has a surveillance law in the works that will force VPNs, messaging apps, and online platforms to log users’ identities, IP addresses, and metadata for government access

More and more sites are moving away from allowing users access when creating accounts with temporary or alias addresses, and usage with vpns. Identity based accounts can’t be tracked if they don’t know your true identity.

In the not too distant future, everything you do online and off will be connected to your real world identity.

being opt out needs to be a right. That implies that having data be harvested for companies to make profits should be the default.

As the years have passed, it has become the acceptable consensus for all of your personal information, thoughts, and opinions, to become freely available to anyone, at anytime, for any reason in order for companies to profit from it.

People keep believing this is normal and companies keep taking more. Unless everyone is willing to stand firm and say enough, I only see it declining further, unfortunately.

It seems to me that nothing is really new and there is nothing exciting, if not interesting, about technology today.

There is the massive infiltration of personal privacy to surveil everyone for whatever reason that is currently deemed acceptable, so there is that - smh

I migrated from Reddit. Most of the communities I followed would be hours or days between posts (if they were not private). Everything left was just not pleasant.

I am still fumbling around here but for the most part it is has better discussions and people seem less rude.

I do not regret leaving at this time. I am sure my infinitesimal presence or lack there of does not bother Reddit, but it made me feel better.