Leraje

I’m not a fan of Apple at all but they could’ve done a lot worse. They’ve basically refused to backdoor encryption and instead announced (as opposed to silently doing it) its removal instead.

I think what we should be more concerned about here is the total silence from other companies who offer encrypted cloud services. Might that imply they’ve already (as per the terms of the UK’s edict) silently complied?

I do the same on mobile :) but I think once people do understand federation and why its actually a very good idea they would too - but thats not going to be true of the majority - certainly not before they use a federated service.

I’m not suggesting its impossible to improve the UX but I a) I think thats going to be an incredibly low priority for the developers and b) I’m not sure what changes can be made to address the essential conflict between the whole point of the fediverse - decentralisation - and a sign up process that essentially hides that without taking away an informed choice.

In reality, its not really that much of a difficult concept to grasp and there are loads of resources like fedi.tips etc to help people. If the communities and content was of a sufficient quality (as oppose to quantity) people would make the fairly minimal effort to understand why the fediverse is the way it is.

And if people don’t or won’t thats really their call.

The vast majority of people want an experience where federation is invisible. Sign up and post/comment. To maintain the benefits of decentralisation and choice, that’s never going to be a truly workable thing.

The vast majority of people don’t want to create or even participate in communities, they just want to lurk, scroll and get their new content fix. Every social media based site I’ve ever been on, federated or centralised has a large group of people complaining about the lack of new content but never take it upon themselves to apply the obvious solution themselves.

These are not necessarily UX issues, these are people issues.

Maybe its time to stop continually worrying about this subject and concentrate on creating great communities? Because if we do that then users will participate organically.

Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Act IV, Scene 1

[Enter pirates]

First Pirate: Hold, villain!

Did you get clearance, Clarence?

For those of you not in the UK, or unfamiliar, its important to understand just how intrusive the gvmt are in terms of privacy and how intrusive they want to be. We are world leaders in gvmt led privacy oppression.

EFF article

Do be an adult. Lemmy isn’t that big that you don’t recognise usernames.

Are you trying to be wrong on every thread about this you post in? To follow up on @EldritchFeminity point about the LGBT community, one of the other groups first targeted by the Nazi’s were the disabled. Trump is on record as stating (as per his nephew) that disabled people should ‘just die’ and has openly mocked disabled people. His views are so close to 1930s/40s era Nazism as to make no real difference.

Trouble is Andy, we now know what you privately think and all the follow up statements in the world can’t put that genie back in the bottle.

Proton is an org that exists in an industry whose customers do not trust easily. Publicly aligning with someone utterly untrustable, either as an individual or as a board, has tainted Proton and adversely affected peoples ability to trust. How can we ever know when Proton will find it acceptable again to respond positively to a Trumpian decision or how it might affect our privacy?