Have you people never heard of a phone book? Phone numbers aren’t sensitive information. If they want to scrape your phone number they can legally and trivially do so through public data sources. Google does plenty of sketchy things around privacy, but this isn’t one of them, it’s just about security.
Wait until they hear about this thing called a phone book.
There’s also this thing called a phone book which has almost everyone and their number in it. Phone numbers are not sensitive information, period.
Especially when they already have access to your entire email history. If they wanted your phone number for nefarious means it will probably be somewhere in that history already. Your email already requires complete trust in the email provider service, there’s so much more sensitive stuff they already have access to.
The people that need the most help have the least capacity to help others. You should also get close to people with the strength to help others too. Having to be there for everyone will become exhausting, but not everyone is like that, you need a balance.
Also, could it be that you’re not reaching out enough to ask for help?
Most mushrooms won’t kill you
That’s not very reassuring
So ignore all the things he says should be done beyond deplatforming and just get angry about made up assumptions that you extrapolated off your interpretation of tone? Get outta here
Most of his suggestions are just advocating for greater transparency. What’s the weird part?
They’re all con artists. The people buying them were trying to scam someone else.
No, it’s not a pyramid scheme, it’s not a ponzi scheme, it’s just a good old fashioned investment scheme.
And again, they’re volunteers, they’re already doing a service and they shouldn’t be forced to take legal risks they don’t want to.
It’s really annoying how lazy people are, the solution is to just have multiple accounts. It’s two clicks to change accounts but those lazy mfs have no response to that except that they don’t want to.
Yup, they’re a big target and being a big target means more liability. Spreading the fediverse is good for us all. It means taking down piracy is like whack a mole.
If the money actually went to the people that made the content then there would be an argument, but it doesn’t, it goes to a bunch of assholes who conned the actual content creators from their hard work.
They’re not just talking about piracy, they’re linking to it. There’s piracy subs on Reddit too and they’re allowed because they are very careful to only talk about it and not link to it, and they’re severely gimped because of that. What’s great about lemmy is that instances that are on with the risk can do so without having to follow anyone else’s rules and users can access it by simply having another account.
Yes, because it’s illegal. If you’re going to be the biggest host you’re a bigger target which means you need to be more careful. What’s good about the fediverse is that you have distributed instances so smaller ones can support things like piracy, and if a small one gets taken down there will be others in its place. The same game of whack a mole is what has allowed torrent tracker sites to exist. If there was one centralized torrent tracker site it would get shut down.
What the post says is exactly right. You’d be an idiot to have one account for your normal usage and piracy usage. In your normal usage you’ll inevitably leak personally identifiable information. Having multiple accounts and multiple instances is the exactly right thing to do to keep piracy alive.
That’s the only thing I’m interested in the game for
I’m not connecting it to an account where all the different activity is correlated with each other.
I’m concerned about the security and legal risk of having a private tracker keep track of how much you’ve uploaded.
Are those features client or protocol specific? My Lemmy client, connect, let’s me block instances and has search for posts, communities, users, comments, etc.
Getting over it?