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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Could you link the AMA?

Curious what they didn't want to work on. The current moderation tool setup is not going to work long term lol

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Better moderation tools. A lot of these features are nice to have, but there is no way Lemmy can grow without better moderation tools.

Even with the tiny userbase, we're having problems with spam and rule breaking content. Add more users and it's going to be a mess.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I haven't read much about the doxxing this account does, but that side seems more clear cut

The harassment though is much harder to go after, and maybe harassment is not the right word for it. You could do something very innocuous, like eating your sandwich a little weird or not having a perfect reaction to a random tiktok influencer coming up to 'interview' you, and now there are millions of people commenting about you and making memes of you. I don't see what you could do other than convince Tiktok to take the video down, and even then the damage is already done.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (5 children)

That whole "no expectation of privacy in public spaces" thing shouldn't be limitless. Ideally it should be closer to the number of people you expect to be present in that public space. People can take photos, record their day, and whatever else they want, but there should be limits around what they can do with the content.

I don't see any laws around this any time soon, but it just never made sense to me how you can be recorded just existing and then a few million people can see it and harass you about it.

At the very least, doxxing people like this should be illegal.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would help with accessibility, and it might help protect some lesser spoken languages because those people can grow an audience as well.

The tech will develop regardless and people will abuse it for other means, at least this one feels like a positive use as opposed to say, a company making its own podcast series with a stolen voice.

If the creator can choose to generate other languages for their own voice, that's probably fine?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks like that same person made a followup video? It was suggested to me under the first one:

Why I was wrong about fairphone

I haven't watched either yet, planning to do that tomorrow

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Didn't Signal make the same statement for India?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The links in the article were interesting, the actual tips were pretty average

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

If it's just a politician I don't like, it would be a good opportunity to talk about it and maybe one/both of us can learn something new. I usually trust that I'm friends with someone for a reason, and while we might not change our minds, it would be a good chance to learn about priorities / needs / ideas.

If it's my LEAST FAVOURITE, then we might not be as compatible as I thought.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Ig Nobel Prize (/ˌɪɡnoʊˈbɛl/ IG-noh-BEL) is a satiric prize awarded annually since 1991 to celebrate ten unusual or trivial achievements in scientific research. Its aim is to "honor achievements that first make people laugh, and then make them think." The name of the award is a pun on the Nobel Prize, which it parodies, and on the word ignoble.

Organized by the scientific humor magazine Annals of Improbable Research (AIR), the Ig Nobel Prizes are presented by Nobel laureates in a ceremony at the Sanders Theater at Harvard University, and are followed by the winners' public lectures at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

lol nice

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Worth reading about for how Facebook locked in markets in developing countries

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero

In particular, see the bits on 'Net neutrality criticism' and 'Impact'


TLDR: Accessing Facebook is easier or even free, accessing the rest of the internet costs money. Thus making it so poorer communities only use Facebook, and say that "Facebook is the Internet"

Few quotes:

In 2015, researchers evaluating how Facebook Zero shapes information and communication technology use in the developing world found that 11% of Indonesians who said they used Facebook also said they did not use the Internet. 65% of Nigerians, 61% of Indonesians, and 58% of Indians agree with the statement that "Facebook is the Internet"

[Internet.org] has been criticized for violating net neutrality, and by handpicking internet services that are included, for discriminating against companies not in the list, including competitors of Meta Platforms' subsidiary Facebook.[5][6] In February 2016, regulators banned the Free Basics service in India based on "Prohibition of Discriminatory Tariffs for Data Services Regulations".[7] The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) accused Facebook of failing to pass on the four questions in the regulator's consultation paper and also blocking access to TRAI's designated email for feedback on Free Basics.[8][9] On February 11, 2016, Facebook withdrew the Free Basics platform from India.[10] In July 2017, Global Voices published the widespread[11][12] report[13][14] "Free Basics in Real Life" analyzing its practices in Africa, Asia and Latin America, and concluding it violates net neutrality, focuses on "Western corporate content",[11] and overall "it's not even very helpful".[12]

Here is a list of the countries, at least for Facebook Zero:

List of countries

 Jordan: Zain Jordan
 Albania: Telekom Albania; Vodafone Albania
 Algeria: Djezzy;[14] Mobilis
 Angola: Unitel S.A.
 Bosnia and Herzegovina: ERONET
 Bangladesh: Grameenphone
 Benin: MTN Group
 Cameroon: MTN Group
 Canada: Freedom Mobile
 Croatia: Bonbon;[15] Hrvatski Telekom;[16] MultiPlus Mobile;[17] Simpa;[18] Tomato;[19] Vipnet
 El Salvador: Movistar
 Fiji: Digicel
 France: SFR
 Germany: E-Plus[20] Ortel
 Greece: WIND Hellas[21]
 Georgia: MagtiCom
 Guinea: MTN Group
 Indonesia: XL Axiata
 Kenya: Airtel Kenya
 Kosovo: iPKO
 Malaysia: DiGi
 Morocco: Maroc Telecom
   Nepal: Ncell[22]
 Pakistan: Telenor Pakistan; Jazz Pakistan, Zong Pakistan[23][24][25][26]
 Palestine: Jawwal[27]
 Panama: Cable & Wireless Communications
 Philippines: Globe Telecom, Smart,[28]
 Poland: Play[29]
 Qatar: Vodafone Qatar
 Saudi Arabia: Saudi Telecom Company[30]
 South Africa: CellC (Discontinued the service), Vodacom, MTN Group
 Suriname: Digicel
 Trinidad and Tobago: Digicel
 United Arab Emirates: Du[31]
 United Kingdom: Three
 Zimbabwe: Telecel Zimbabwe
 Zambia: Airtel Zambia

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

A combination of over-involved parents when I was younger, and reading about human rights abuses later on. I think I first started reading about personal privacy stuff after there were protests in some part of the world, and then the government tracked down those talking about it online in order to arrest and torture them. People were posting urgently about how they could protect themselves and I didn't know what to say

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