Post #1973107
2026-04-06 20:05 UTC
This is a legal/poltical issue more than a technology one. The good guys are the EFF, OpenRightsGroup, EDRi and others in the same side. Increasingly phone apps are forced on us to do things at all, and those apps are not only closed but only run on locked down OSs. It's anti competitive, anti-freedom, authoritarian, etc etc.
We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. We need to stop fighting political fights by burying ourselves ever deeper in tech. Which I'm guilty of too!
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@timmytbt@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-07 00:28
💯 support EFF
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@FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 2026-04-07 19:03
*Very well said.* Everything you said I agree about 100%. > We need to get better at convincing non-nerds. I'm doing my best. It's hard tho. They just... don't care. They don't understand why it is important. Important for their future, and for all of our future. They don't seem to grasp why it matters so much, and what price we have to pay when we get it wrong. I try to find concrete examples for them. But when people are invested already in some big tech ecosytem, it's easy to discount the examples. "That wouldn't apply to me". I'm trying so hard, but it is an up hill fight :(.