But it says in the OP that this thread should be used for posting questions for the AMA?
Long time linux user and tinkerer. Currently working as a devops engineer. Very positive to the idea of decentralized internet platforms. :)
But it says in the OP that this thread should be used for posting questions for the AMA?
What are the plans around admin tools?
Instance owners currently gets notified when someone has reported a user for spamming or trolling, but frequently it’s a user that is not on his instance, so he can’t do anything about it. Wouldn’t it be better if instance owners got notified only when they can take actual action (like the user being registered on their instance)?
But hey, richest company in the world need to eat ok?
/s
No I was just being stupid.
The default settings didnt have a redirect so you were getting the default nginx web page since you went to the http version.
Now you should be redirected. Thanks for taking the time to bounce a few pixels back and forth. :)
You dont bother me, this is very interesting actually…
You still get this default nginx page?
Edit: It didnt do a redirect by default. :) Will fix that.
Nah, i just forgot the s in https in the link i posted. :)
Fixed it now, thank you.
I updated https://lemmy.today this morning and no problems at all.
We are a small instance but still wanted to post this. Maybe it calms the nerves for some instance owners. :)
Micro$oft, as we used to say in the old times…
Yeah I honestly liked this text too.
No it was part of the request actually :)
Meta and Twitter are social media companies. They have access to peoples tweets. It’s similar to having access to these messages you and me are typing, except many people use their own names there.
It’s not too bad privacy wise, just social messages.
Google on the other hand has the private searches of billions of people. Everything you put into a search engine because you are worried, afraid, sick, or curious about something.
Google records all this private activity and saves it under your personal profile, and then uses cookies to track every web site you are visiting on the web (using not only Google search but Google analytics cookies that exists on almost every website).
They also combine this data with whatever you are doing on your android phone, or what places you go to using Google maps, or what video meetings you are having with Google meets, what emails you have in Google Mail, what video you watch on YouTube, what calendar events you are having with Google calendar… And so on.
Then they feed all this data into algorithms designed to figure out what you are likely to do next. They sell this data to advertisers so they can target you with ads. They also send this data to American agencies like nsa to be stored and analyzed.
There is a giant difference here between Google and the other companies you mentioned. Google is literally watching moments from people’s entire lives, while the others only see your social media messages.
This is why Google is completely absurdly in it’s own class of anti-privacy. No other company has this amount of data about people’s every moment awake.
Now they use their dominant position to try and take over the entire web, so it’s not possible to escape them anymore using a different browser, blocking cookies and tracking, or using another search engine.
If everyone is forced to use their browser, we have lost everything good about the web.
They should be treated like the cancer to a free web they really are.
Darth Vader wants to protect children… Right.
I haven’t done that but yes, it’s pretty much unheard of that the user can actually control what shows up in search if you come from Google-land.
For a conversation to happen, there must be trust. I don’t think anyone trusts them, so there is no attempt at serious communication.
They should be treated with contempt.
Google, the Internet Government.
More like organic user reviews I would say.
Ah yes.
I also worry a bit about all these email aliases I use now. They do tie me to fastmail for the future. And if they would disappear, it would be a pain to replace. But that’s life. Have to take some risks. :)
That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Proton is not a web search engine.
Edit: But for email, sure. :)
No worries :)