I would come along a question that I was well educated on, and the top voted responses were all very clearly wrong, but sounded correct to someone who didn’t know better.
This can be said to https://news.ycombinator.com/ as well. I wonder how much of this is due to sock puppets and bots.
Honest question: deleted comments might be just hidden and still up for sale, do people know if GDPR can come to the rescue here?
What can you get to within a 15-minute walk of your house?
Shot.
Just kidding, I live in Europe. :) All the things in the list except the arena.
I did the survey but please would you mind identifying yourself and linking to the research paper when it's ready?
I'm not a psychologist but it sounds a bit like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation - "You want me not to pollute so I pollute even more"
signal is designed not to trust the server
Unfortunately this is not enough. A malicious Signal server can mount a timing correlation attack and infer the social graph of an user. Having a centralized server makes it more difficult to mitigate such risk.
free people from proprietary gardens, yet FOSS has actually been one of the biggest creators of such gardens
Forgive the nitpick, but FOSS is not creating walled gardens, companies are. (After all, software has no willpower... yet)
I'm surprised nobody pointed out that tyres are extremely polluting:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/jun/03/car-tyres-produce-more-particle-pollution-than-exhausts-tests-show
Element (and other crucial components of the Matrix ecosystem) received many rounds of investments including https://element.io/blog/element-raises-30m-as-matrix-explodes/ (These are investments, not donations.)
I would not be surprised if the usual bait & switch lock-in mechanism happens here as well.
Then yes there’s EEE danger. Hopefully the Mastodon developers will resist that.
Unfortunately developers can do very little to prevent that. EEE works by first attracting a large userbase into a service and later on prevent them from leaving. It's up to instances admins and users to defederate to prevent EEE.
People panic about face scan while the ongoing massive privacy breaches exist around online services and electronic devices. The amount of personal data that people pour into smartphones is enormous compared to using that vending machine. We need more GDPR.