I’m sorry I didn’t namedrop enough purveyors of tendies after the first bit to keep your attention all the way to the end of my post. I can do all the privacy stuff in the world but if that gets me thrown into a cell for suspicion of espionage, because of how uncommon (ie suspicious) it has become to not sell your soul to the worst companies on earth, then how has that helped me.
The commercial internet exists and we have to know how to interface with it, and to be able to do so on our own terms. Most Fedi instances are hosted on commercial rack space, does this make both of us hypocrites for not exclusively hosting our own micro-instances with blanket IP bans on every hyperscaler?
If you use VPNs then you are still playing pretend.
This tells me all I need to know. What even compels you people to write like this, there’s no way you don’t know better.
I’m sorry I didn’t namedrop enough purveyors of tendies after the first bit to keep your attention all the way to the end of my post. I can do all the privacy stuff in the world but if that gets me thrown into a cell for suspicion of espionage, because of how uncommon (ie suspicious) it has become to not sell your soul to the worst companies on earth, then how has that helped me.
The commercial internet exists and we have to know how to interface with it, and to be able to do so on our own terms. Most Fedi instances are hosted on commercial rack space, does this make both of us hypocrites for not exclusively hosting our own micro-instances with blanket IP bans on every hyperscaler?
This tells me all I need to know. What even compels you people to write like this, there’s no way you don’t know better.