8.1 as well

It’s not like we’ll not see it coming Once threads.net starts federating with the big instances, it’s all over

The information that can be gathered and sold is pretty intense, even when your account is on another instance

• All your posts and comments (this is public information, no cause for alarm)
• Everything you upvote/downvote
• Every time you load an image from another instance (link tracking, can probably be correlated with your IP address you signed into facebook with)
• With enough posts in your feed tracking you, a general picture of your interests and time of day you interact with lemmy will form, which can be sold

Do those not end up as heat later down the line as well?

I think you’re confusing “encrypted in transit” versus “end to end encryption”

Your email between protonmail and gmail would be encrypted between the servers, but both protonmail and gmail could read your email. OpenPGP makes it so incoming emails are encrypted with your public key, so there’s an extra stage of encryption that only your email client can decipher. OpenPGP therefore has the capacity for end to end encryption

Time for some user agent spoofing

I would invest after the UFOs

With enough of them, property values will go down as people move away

Once it’s identified as a hoax, the value will correct itself over time

Is working 2 full time jobs just to be able to afford rent and utilities considered slavery?

That’s socialism!

I’d be worried the service that suggests a roofing company or Italian restaurant would go to the highest bidder. That is, it would only contact the big nation wide chains, who pay apple & amazon, over the small local companies that give better service for half the price.

That’s already the case when you use Google maps or Google search, but it feels like you’d have less control by giving the AI a single instruction