Really, governments should make and moderate their own social media services, the basic concept is a great communication medium for everything from like reporting potholes to promoting blood donation drives to quickly sharing updates during emergency weather situations etc., the kinds of basic citizen service stuff governments should be doing, but when profit notices creep in we get all this data harvesting and Skinner-box algorithmic manipulation that ruins things
The Zuck will embrace it. It’s the other messengers that have stated that they would not work with meta. And I’m honestly with them.
I have zero hope for any possible open standard for messengers to not be comandeered by google/fb et al so that it’ll end up to be a net loss in privacy and security. I have no interest to compromise my own privacy because aunt Karen doesn’t want to switch apps.
Alternatively, we, in the EU could just… Stop using Facebook, Instagram, X, TikTok or whatever being used to harvest our data?
Really, governments should make and moderate their own social media services, the basic concept is a great communication medium for everything from like reporting potholes to promoting blood donation drives to quickly sharing updates during emergency weather situations etc., the kinds of basic citizen service stuff governments should be doing, but when profit notices creep in we get all this data harvesting and Skinner-box algorithmic manipulation that ruins things
Where I live the government does all this already.
I hate it how Facebook is a better source of public safety information than some government websites.
If we need to travel the snowy highways you can get better updates on the conditions than the official highways website.
If you can even navigate the garbage official websites. That’s alwaysy issue, there is way too much crap and nothing is straightforward ever.
Can Canada get on board with that too
Can the U.S. also…, oh goddamnit
Add WhatsApp to the list
Hell, Whatsapp may be the worst of them all.
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The Zuck will embrace it. It’s the other messengers that have stated that they would not work with meta. And I’m honestly with them.
I have zero hope for any possible open standard for messengers to not be comandeered by google/fb et al so that it’ll end up to be a net loss in privacy and security. I have no interest to compromise my own privacy because aunt Karen doesn’t want to switch apps.
Whatsapp already implemented this, but as far as I know nobody took the offer. E.g. Signal and Threema don’t want to connect with WhatsApp.
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