Rikj000

Full stack developer and privacy advocate. I like to keep the mentality, if you can program one language well, then you can program in any language!

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  • I get the sentiment,
    however when the user base of a FOSS alternative grows beyond the closed source alternative, a switch can happen.

    So it would be a good thing to have a FOSS alternative out there, which can accumulate a user base over time.

    Without any alternatives being developed,
    a switch can never happen.








  • Rikj000toPrivacy@lemmy.mlWhy is there only one invidious instance left?
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    2 months ago

    YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.

    Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
    so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

    Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
    with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
    here’s the source code if you’re interested:
    https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

    I’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
    he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.

    If you can please consider:

    All the above can help Fijxu,
    since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.








  • OP I appreciate the reasoning.
    But I’d advise against it,
    and would recommend users to delete their Facebook account asap.

    Why? 4-5 years ago I already noticed the “illusion of free speech” on Facebook.

    The platform is a data farm,
    but I’m a data privacy advocate,
    so I regularly posted data privacy articles/tools.

    Which went against the best interest of Facebook, so they simply held back that content from nearly everyone’s feed, resulting in it getting nearly zero attention.

    But if I posted a dumb meme,
    it would get a lot of attention.

    I’ve asked around to friends back in the day who where scrolling online if they saw my data privacy posts, none did.

    So staying on the platform to advertise things that go against Facebooks best interest, will likely not yield good results.

    However deleting your account,
    is a great conversation starter that can easily be directed into WOM (Word of Mouth) marketing, to teach your friends and family about Fediverse tools.


  • It does seem interesting,
    but I remain skeptical.

    This means putting your trust in Obscura, since they’re the 1st hop, receiving your data without additional encryption, a new player, who yet has to prove that they’re trustworthy.

    Sure their Github may show great software, but that doesn’t mean we can see which software they might additionally install on their servers.

    Meanwhile Mullvad has already been proven to be trustworthy through the best possible review any VPN company can receive, being: Server seized by the feds, but zero useful info retrieved by them.

    Which proves they back up their claim of being a No-Log VPN.

    Due to this I trust Mullvad,
    and don’t have any issues with sending them my data.

    But I can’t put the same faith in Obscura yet, not before they receive a similar “review”.