Relying on legislation to get passed or not get passed only gets us so far. Yes, absolutely, write your reps and vote, but also donate to your favorite decentralized, private tech project so they can improve the user experience and get more users. We need to make tyrannical censorship & surveillance not only technically impossible but politically unfeasible. The way we do that is by building better tech and getting more and more of the population to use it.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2024
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Folks, this should inspire you to start self-hosting a federated, decentralized chat server with freely available source code by yourself or with a small community. Governments can coerce these big, usually-corpo centralized servers to give up data but good luck if there are hundreds of thousands (of millions?) of small servers with 1–10 users on it & clients not controlled by a single entity for distribution (easier now that y’all coerced Mommy Apple to let you sideload applications & use alternative package managers).
All federated services grossly violate GDPR.
Sounds like GDPR is the problem then, not federated services.
Matrix I guess?
If you don't trust matrix.org, then you can self host the server yourself. Plus, the article you included is outdated.
This was already long canceled wasn't it? This is old.
It was pulled from voting a second time, it will undoubtedly return for another round.