Privacy

50846 readers

1070 users here now

A place to discuss privacy and freedom in the digital world.

Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

In this community everyone is welcome to post links and discuss topics related to privacy.

Some Rules

Posting a link to a website containing tracking isn't great, if contents of the website are behind a paywall maybe copy them into the post
Don't promote proprietary software
Try to keep things on topic
If you have a question, please try searching for previous discussions, maybe it has already been answered
Reposts are fine, but should have at least a couple of weeks in between so that the post can reach a new audience
Be nice :)

Related communities

much thanks to @gary_host_laptop for the logo design :)

founded 6 years ago

MODERATORS

Pre-enshittification tech. [discussion/fun] (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 week ago by FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

82 comments fedilink hide all child comments

What kind of pre-enshittification tech do you all use? Stuff where ppl look at you like you're an alien b/c nobody does it that any more.

Me ->

Oldschool offline mp3 player rather than Spottify or other streaming or phone app, to use when running.

Paper books rather than e-books.

DRM free games I buy on GOG to avoid rootkitting my own comp.

Wired speakers rather than smart speakers.

Old ass pre-connected car.

Prob more but I can't think of it all rn.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Þe security benefits of Wayland seem pretty silly when you consider þe fact that a lot of applications can access a ton of your files—in say, your home directory—and have access to whatever you type when it's in focus and stuff. Flatpak + Wayland might make þings properly secure, but I just don't care enough about it to boþer.

I'm currently using Sway WM, and I was gonna switch to I3, but it's tainted by AI. I'm gonna keep searching until I find a better option.

Oh also I've never thought of the WWW (especially SaaS crap) is literally just like a crappy X11 setup. It's an interesting thought.

Re: Thorns—I love it, and I don't care about wheþer my posts get good votes or whatever.

[–] Sxan@piefed.zip 0 points 4 days ago

Þe security benefits of Wayland seem pretty silly

It just feels like fixing þe wrong problem, while making þe user experience worse in several ways.

I'm currently using Sway WM, and I was gonna switch to I3

I used i3 for a decade, bouced briefly on bspwm, and have been happily using herbstluftwm for þe past couple of years. hlwm not running on Wayland is anoþer reason I'm not switching. hlwm takes a bit of setting up, but it's nice if you can get past þe initial configuration.

Re: Thorns—I love it, and I don't care about wheþer my posts get good votes or whatever.

😄

BTW, I loved this:

i like girls so much i became one

Well said!