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"Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default by creating an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day." Building
by hammyhavoc 5y ago
"Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default by creating an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day."
Building an internet and providing privacy don't go hand-in-unlovable-hand with SaaS. Decentralization is an important solution to most threat models, as is having physical possession of your server and data. Centralization is the problem here.
Why complicate things when you could just acknowledge that email is archaic and unsuitable for privacy in 2021, and start running your own Matrix home server if you have something worth keeping private?
Trotting out Berners-Lee isn't helping their credibility following the environmental activist debacle. Actions speak louder than words. As has been evidenced, centralized privacy-oriented SaaS provided by businesses are not fit for purpose. Users should take responsibility for their own data and assume everything is compromised by default.
- thereddaikon 5y agoOn a reddit AMA several years ago Tim or the PR people representing him claimed that he and his team tat Cern were responsible for the open source movement. Except their browser wasn't opened until after the fact, and Stallman and FSF had been doing their thing for years before. He lost a lot of credibility with me after that.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoWasn't aware of that claim of starting the open source movement! How someone ever thought they would get away with a claim as silly as that is beyond me. He's also sold a gimmicky cryptoart NFT through Sotheby’s, contributing to and indirectly endorsing environmental destruction. He of all people should be leading by example with how to make existing and future technologies more environmentally-friendly.
- dane-pgp 5y ago> indirectly endorsing environmental destruction. Didn't creating the web also indirectly cause a lot of environmental destruction? Oh, you mean that your energy use is strictly necessary, whereas other people using energy for something that doesn't interest you is morally wrong. Got it.
- hammyhavoc 5y agoI can list quite literally hundreds of problems solved by the web. How many problems can you say are solved by cryptoart?
- dane-pgp 5y ago... Less than hundreds. Okay, you have a point.
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