Remember: Companies don’t learn lessons, they react to profits. They’re 100% gonna boil the frog here.

Yeah, the fact that so many things just automatically require 16gb of RAM is wild to me. Why does a web browser need 16gb of RAM??? Why did a calculator leak 32gb of RAM???

Oh, absolutely, it’s just the sheer amount of data they do use on people is wild when compared to the fact that they basically ignore the contents of emails xD

xD It’s one of my omg.lol domains, and everything fedi needs its own subdomain, so I gave it a random one from the diceware list

Yeah… I tend to keep my accounts here as a “Do I really need/want the UI, or can I just do it on my main account?” and judge from there. Like. It’s fair to me that Friendica, Mastodon, Hubzilla, and the *keys share a protocol. They’re all doing the same fundamental thing in a slightly different way: Blogging/microblogging. What the fediverse was built on, largely.

It is weird to me that Lemmy, Bookwyrm, Funkwhale, and to a lesser extent PeerTube are all on that same network. A community-based content aggregator, book reviewer, music hoster, and video hoster on that same network feels weird, and as a result I do have a Lemmy, and a Friendica account. I don’t care to have a Mastodon/GTS/*key account on top of it because they function near identically, but these are all fundamentally different pieces of software. You subscribe to one Lemmy community, and that’s your entire feed now. Bookwyrm functionally can’t use Mastodon posts, and you’re not going to Mastodon for that flavor of book review, etc.

About 3 years in, and same as it has been: Discovery’s kinda ass if you’re not on the big servers. This is both a positive and a negative. In most cases it leads to a lack of content directly, and for services like Lemmy, it leads to communities being more dispersed.

I think giving servers the option to run on a whitelist basis instead of a blacklist for other servers would be good. Federation is cool for a lot of reasons, but if your goal is to be a dick you can do that on a $5/mo server with a few cheap domains. Plus I’ve wanted to self-host some things that I don’t necessarily want federated, like Bookwyrm. I was looking at setting one up as a fanfic sharing thing, and a lot of fanfic authors don’t want their stuff on platforms like Goodreads for valid reasons, and I personally feel like having it federated would kinda defeat the purpose there. While I was typing this out I just had an idea that might have fixed that problem, actually, I’ll test that later

In the same vain, allowing servers to share their blocklists with other servers would help a lot as well. Yes you can see the block list publicly (though some servers do disable it), but manually copying it is a massive chore, and keeping it updated is even worse.

I mean, Mozilla themselves are calling it that, or at least were

Waterfox if you want something that still feels like a modern browser, LibreWolf if you don’t mind having stricter defaults. If you want the nuclear option, Mullvad browser is good, it is very inconvenient thoygh. At least for desktop. On mobile I use Vivaldi/Fennec/Vanadium depending on need

Oh neat. I’ve been using cloud hiker to a similar effect

That’s the kinda mentality that lead to the fall of Yugoslavia

Yeah, those are bigger issues. It’s still easier to find people who’re using PGP than your specific email provider, though. Your friend using gmail can use pgp via a client.

I’ve heard of the exploits, but the ones I’ve heard of do typically require the hackers/whatever to have the emails (either via intercepting them as they’re traveling, or getting them from the server), then injecting some HTML, then emailing the emails back to you to trick the server/client to sending the unencrypted emails back? While I don’t use email for much, and my threat model involves much more “Google” than “The government”, I’m not sure how much of a concern this would be for people who’s threat model isn’t that high?

(Admittedly this is also the first I’m hearing of the exploits. I don’t tend to use PGP for my emails, since I don’t send that many emails anyway)

Yep! The other side benefits are that if your info gets sold online/leaked/what have you, and you start getting emails from your “bank” at the email you used to sign up for a random browser game in 2018, it’s easier to tell that it’s a scam. Not even that expensive either, I think I pay a total of $56/yr for the domain and the email?

Only issue is I usually put the month/year in the alias so if something does happen I don’t need to remember if this is the first or third email for a service. If I don’t mark down the email in my password manager (rare, but has happened), I have the fun issue of forgetting my email and password for the account, because idfk when I signed up for this

This post, to my reading, is about how desktop PCs are disposable, and my comment is providing evidence to the contrary

I wasn’t talking about a new build at any point in my comment.

These are faults for most people. They’re benefits to some! Myself included! I use an even more strict browser for most websites. I am not most people, neither are you. Most of the people I know, and most of the people I interact with, would uninstall that within 5 days because it’s missing features that have been standard in web browsers for at least a decade.

Most people will see that as an extreme annoyance the first time it happens, close the browser, uninstall it, and never try another Firefox fork again.

I need FOSS people to understand that most people will not do that.

All of these are disableable, very few people will even bother looking into how to disable them. They will stop using the browser.

Also I did say that

It’d cost about $36 billion, assuming roughly 665,000 people are on bail nationwide in the US, and the average Pennsylvania (couldn’t find anywhere else) bail amount of $55,400. There are ~902 billionaires in the US according to Forbes, though some of them are likely under $36 billion.

The only real selling point of any of these is “Not gmail.”

Like. Sure. If you email your friend from your $redacted e2ee military-grade encryption account, and your friend also has the same provider of their e2ee military-grade encrypted email account, then yes. They’re encrypted, and $redacted can’t really provide much if they get subpoenaed. If your friend is using gmail? Your emails are being read by gmail.

They often have other features, like I have a catch-all mailbox set up for my domain because I’d rather give lemmy$date@example.com than my actual email for various reasons. But their privacy ends where gmail begins.

I remember reading some of the files, and seeing a whoooooool lot of gmail addresses.

Track everything we do, but let this all fly under the radar…

Taking a moment to mention that it’s not hard to set up PGP for your emails, and most desktop clients that I’ve randomly looked at support it