It’s an ecosystem where you - not some incellionaire obsessed with eugenics - own your digital identity.

I’m stealing the term “incellionaire”.

Our government might be two-party in form, but is one party in function. They both champion the same class interests, with most of the difference coming down to how much of the quiet part they’ll say out loud.

Stop blaming the world and make it yours.

Ogey

I’d like to see ol’ Donny Trump wriggle his way out of this jam.

With the American one the US government has a possibility of recourse against you, and it’s a hell of a lot more than a slight possibility.

Based if true.

If it makes you feel any better, the US has never had a free or fair election.

It’s hilarious to me that Tik-Tok was banned for its ties to China (despite the US version of the app being hosted entirely on servers in the US run by Oracle) only for users to flood to an app that is extremely obviously Chinese with an already existing Chinese netizen userbase.

Yeesh, I thought you were being hyperbolic, but it really is that bad! He even has this massive self report towards the end:

And how do you avoid being punished? There are two ways. One that works; and one that doesn’t. The one that doesn’t work is to design everything up front before coding. The one that does avoid the punishment is to override all the safeties.

And so you will declare all your classes and all your functions open. You will never use exceptions. And you will get used to using lots and lots of ! characters to override the null checks and allow NPEs to rampage through your systems.

Uncle Bob must be the kind of guy who makes all of his types any when writing Typescript.

At least it’s not XML.

Are you talking about the Foxconn factory with the suicide nets in Taiwan (which I predict you consider an independent country from the mainland)?

You can write garbage code in rust, but the compiler will beat you with a stick for doing so.

I didn’t say otherwise. If anything, considering it’s 4chan we’re talking about, I expect it to be malicious.

The only PII the software itself stores are usernames, bcrypt hashes of passwords, JWT session tokens and, if the admin requires it or the user gives it voluntarily, emails. With this in mind, there are still important caveats to keep in mind.

First, there is no way to verify if a given instance is running a fork that collects more information than the upstream repo, not to mention any logging they might be doing. This is where Lemmy being self-hostable is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, if you have the sysadmin knowhow or know someone trustworthy who does, you can setup your own instance that you can be certain doesn’t collect any data you don’t expect it to. On the other hand, there is no way to prevent malicious actors from making compromised instances.

The other important caveat is that all posts and comments are public. Personal information you post in posts and comments can be used to identify you. This is true of all social media, even ones that don’t use usernames such as 4chan and similar chan-like image boards. No amount of software related privacy features can save you from bad opsec.