I think modern privacy is more about creating noise than anything else. Anything you do that can in some way be tied to an internet connection in your name is traceable to you to some degree of certainty, so create lots of noise to filter through, so its hard to derive meaning from anything. Be simultaneously a Democrat, a Republican and something completely off the chart of their political understanding. The idea is to create misinformation about yourself that is indistinguishable from the real information. Use stock images for the pictures on any accounts under your real name and make deep fake videos using those faces. Run one of those scripts that generates a bunch of background traffic, use tor and a VPN for mundane tasks. Have social media accounts that express a wide variety of political beliefs and use chatgpt to fill in any details you don't care to fill out. Never post pictures of yourself on the internet, but post stock photos/videos of other people frequently. Edit pictures of yourself to have other faces. Use algorithms intentionally designed to confound AI to edit photos. A lot of these tasks are being automated now so you don't have to think too much about any of it. Also if you want privacy get a dumb mp3 player and a dumb camera that can't connect to the internet at all. Then leave your phone in different locations, not just your house for extended periods of time. Switch usernames frequently and jump accounts on different services. Change your email address often. If you can, legally change your name, but go by many names in different circles. Move around a lot, change jobs often... etc, etc. Its hard to pull meaningful data out of a messy dataset, so make those that collect it all have to work really hard to make meaning of it all. Any combination of these sort of things in addition to good general oppsec will make whatever dossier somebody puts together seem fairly useless. Think about Lee Harvey Oswald for example. His dossier was all over the place, having him playing multiple political adversaries and making a bit of a scene while doing so. It's almost impossible to determine his personal motivations because of all the misinformation he created around himself. Obviously its harder now to disappear into an alias identity, but give up on believing they can't get anything on you, instead focus on giving them too much.
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I love star trek, so I love that instance, but Lemmy.world feels like its replicating the toxic discussion style from reddit. I'm not here because I loved reddit but hate what they did to it. I have hated reddit for years, I am here for a completely different thing from reddit. The slrpnk instance and the Lemmy.ml are the main instances I want to interact with. If there are other anarchist instances in the future, I'd like to interact with those, but ideally keep the toxic bullshit to a minimum.
I would be on here more if you could block entire instances. If its possible at this point, its not as straight forward as mastodon.
The problem with you techbros is you can't imagine anything at smaller scales. But what you just said... Jabber is here for 25 years. That means it is good enough for tons of people. Not everybody needs a shiney new toy and if free software doesn't scale, then who cares. It can and will still work for those of us willing to share the burden and for those that can't, each one of me can accommodate at least a few such users and those that just won't... Fuck em. We don't have to capture every use case to be of value. I use jabber. I have plans to self host it. It works and has done so for 25 years. Furthermore AIM captured everything a chat needs to do, why do we keep reinventing this wheel when there are much more interesting problems that need to be solved.
If they open sourced all the server code, we could be helping them to operate it potentially, but they want to control the infrastructure, so I guess we'll all be using xmpp soon.
Well unfortunately he used his final special to spew transphonic trash. Basically any time he wandered his way into politics it was never good, but he had some amazing jokes when he didn't.