This sent me down a rabbit hole for a moment because I'd never heard of Yoti (fucking dystopian shit). A Reddit post caught my eye because it had to do with PlayStation. It's in the r/privacy sub & turns out it had been removed by a mod for breaking their rules regarding any mention of alternative OSes.
Say what?!?
Alternative OSes are a major option for privacy. Ho my gawd, Reddit has truly turned into completely useless bullshit. Un. Fucking. Real.
Oh god it's such a useless pile of shit over there
Theres almost nothing of value left anymore
I am so disappointed in Reddit. Never going back. Why does every fun digital playground have to turn to shit eventually.
Shareholders, my guy, it's always external shareholders (and a central point of hosting).
At least the fediverse doesn't have that issue (and never will).
Second this and adding: Fiduciary responsibility and how US economic law places it above all else. Other jurisdictions, particularly in Europe, require companies to balance multiple responsibilities, such as towards their workforce, societal, ecological, and yes, fiduciary, too. It doesn't solve all issues and can be vague AF, but at least well-meaning CEOs can fall back to these other corporate responsibilities in court while the same CEO would be sued into oblivion by US shareholders.
Hey, I used Reddit for years, I guess as anyone else here, and even with that Appolo client, it was so much worse than what I have now with Mlem client. (Speaking of iPhones right now.) And the quality of the conversation is so much better in here, even despite (or thanks to, who knows) not many people in here, really.
I think Reddit is better only for when you need a lot of people in the comments for some reason. But now I think you don’t need that for most of the cases. All you need is just some people to hang around, otherwise there’s tumbleweed and it’s not as useful too. But the number of people we all need, it’s not that big, actually!
I mean, fuck Reddit.
Seems like it’s mostly bots anyway. Hard to tell anymore what’s real comments and what is bot shill.
Sadly, that’s a lot of the internet these days. The dead internet is becoming a reality.
Just doing a search for reviews brings up so many AI written blogspam. Even the “trusted” sites from back in the day are scammy and advertising prices for whatever they review.
It is indeed, but if we’d think about it longer … we couldn’t trust any review to be genuine in the past too.
It wasn’t that bad though, that’s for sure. I do remember me buying some tech solely on the basis of having positive reviews. These days, I’d rather buy what’s cheaply (or for the sane price, depending on what I’m looking for) available online locally, and tweak from there.
I found a nice essay on the topic recently, the boring internet.
These days, not that genuine reviews are completely gone. They’re funnelled to some dark web channels (Instagram / Facebook et al), or live in private chats (e.g. me recommending something to friends). Personally, I’m trying to support others to start their own websites. For whatever hobbies they have. Unfortunately, not many are interested though. However, I believe that’s a matter of time before they realise that the social media platforms are optimised for engagement for the engagement’s sake. Which isn’t what I’m looking for. I’m totally ok with my blog being read by tens, not hundreds or thousands. Especially when these people are engaged in a mindful discussion, not just sending me millions of useless likes to pump my dopamine for no real reason.
I believe we’d see the reborn internet (if it’s dead now) at some point.
Yoti is now claiming that this user is lying: https://xcancel.com/getyoti/status/2063946615073751299#m
So age verification was never about children, was it?
Of course not. It is the Epstein class who wants it. It is all about surveillance and being able to steal your data.
Yoti? The privacy violating Yoti? The law breaching Yoti?
https://ppc.land/spain-fines-yoti-eu950-000-over-biometric-data-and-consent-failures/
The security of your phone is a concern to surveillance fanatics.
Who would go through all the trouble to install GOS, to take back their privacy.. just to give it all up with an app like yoti?
Don't let perfect be the enemy of good. We should be encouraging people to switch even if the level of privacy they want doesn't match our own.
Without giving too much info, I had to use it as part of a legal process a while ago, it's what the solicitors use to verify ID so I didn't really have a choice but to use it. But my thinking about using things like GrapheneOS etc. isn't necessarily to be 100% anonymous online, it's more to just minimize the amount of info they can get out of me.
Graphene is going to be outlawed soon. Wouldnt doubt if Linux won't be next in some places.
Good, they will push us all together. Everything is going according to plan.
Thats a pretty substantial claim. Outlawed where?
anywhere were a substantial enough number of people start adopting it; if i had a farm, i'd bet on it.
This really sucks, and I’m worried for you guys using graphene that you’re going to be boxed out of absolutely everything and find yourselves on “terrorist” lists…which is sooo fuckn stupid, but that’s the time were unfortunately living in.
I'm ok with the outcome. If you call me a duck enough times, I'll start quacking.
Wtf is an authority?
Yah. "The Authorities" sounds like they don't know who to report people to, so they substitute with non-specific bullshit to worry people.
The state police and the cyber police, I reckon
I think people aren't reading too well into this. I think this is a massive failure on Yoti's side that will just discredit their trustworthiness and reliability. What's the "authorities" (police I guess?) gonna do when they start receiving a bunch of random citizens reported that have NOTHING to be reported for?
Eventually they'll have to learn to just ignore Yoti's reports...or at least take them rather...not seriously, to begin with.
douchebag "support"
does it happen with other roms as well?
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