Oh yeah, there's more where this came from. I've got a little backlog of content
LWD
joined 1 year ago
How does this affect people who upgrade? They just have Firefox plus a second browser?
I think the purpose is to find a source of revenue so that they don't have to ruin their product. There's a lot of potential good here, in addition to the unfortunately undeniable potential bad.
Until the lawsuit between Steve Teixeira and Mozilla reveals the truth, I'm going to withhold my judgment about how fascistic Mozilla was internally.
Teixeira claimed Mozilla conducted an audit that found them pretty lacking in the equality department IIRC, and Mozilla's own lawyers disputed many things but not that.
You can close a group and reopen it later.
I thought tab groups on the desktop were neat but ignorable... Until browser vendors started implementing stuff like this. Now it's basically a halfway point between an open tab and a bookmark. Excellent for organization.
My YouTube alternative: still YouTube, but I screw them out of ad revenue with a dedicated account and third party apps
I find the moderation on r/privacy especially pernicious because the moderator creating and enforcing these rules also has footing on the Fediverse - they moderate the FOSStodon server.
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Heise blacklisted
The post
Censored, all comments locked.
The removal reason
Why this is bullshit
This is not a normal removal message. Most of this removal reason is from a template, the portion including "Now blacklisted" was manually added and has never been used before.
Heise is based in Germany, where the best privacy laws (the GDPR) are enforced strictly. If this site is blacklisted, then any site can be blacklisted.
"Please link to a credible source" is part of the original community rules, and maybe the moderator who edited the message forgot to remove it, because Heise is credible.
US border security questions are suppressed
The post
![Traveling into the US with an iphone: question about border security [question tag] ....... So I've read that you should delete any apps that may have anti-Trump content (social media, WhatsApp, etc.), but even if you factory reset your phone, all the phone messages are still there, right? ........ Is there a way to save text messages in the cloud and have them NOT on your phone (and restore them later)? ......... Maybe just traveling with a burner phone is the only way. ......... I just saw two stories of American citizens being detained at airports and ICE searching their phones for anti-Trump stuff.](https://europe.pub/api/v3/image_proxy?url=https%3A%2F%2Flemm.ee%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2Fcb9dd0ff-6d3e-4781-8187-91fa02950c49.png)
Censored, all comments locked.
The removal reason
Why it's bullshit
Their post is based on legitimate concerns from legitimate news sites. There is no FUD here, there is no attack on any "privacy mainstay" unless the moderators believe the US surveillance apparatus needs to be protected by them.
And if we needed more evidence the moderators are protecting the DHS, they also removed this comment from the thread's OP:
Bonus: mods censor a guide to safe border crossing
The post
The removal reason
Why this is bullshit
No rules were broken. Moderator carrotcypher cannot even be assed to fabricate one. (Why not just blacklist The Guardian too?)
You said you were done responding, so at least have the dignity of demonstrating a little bit of honesty where it is most apparent.
It seems
Any "privacy" improvements from random instances are not part of the core code structure
The privacy improvements are from the ActivityPub protocol. The author cites them.
Edit: ...and the spammer who keeps copy-pasting the same irrelevant spam from thread to thread is back
Don't be a jackass and don't spam.
The trouble with the thing you quoted twice in a row - unnecessarily padding out your post - is that saying "Mastodon may not be perfect" does not cancel out Pixelfed's massive security issue.
Two wrongs don't make a right.
Non-malicious servers aren't supposed to do what Pixelfed did.
Yep, Carrotcypher is in the mod list.
https://hub.fosstodon.org/team/
I presume the admins just don't know about this. They also moderate over 50 subreddits, including the Mastodon one. They tend to be the controlling moderator, or the top moderator that is regularly active.
Doing my best to compile more content about it...