9 May
2024
9 May
'24
7:32 a.m.
On Wednesday 08 May 2024 23:49:29 J Leslie Turriff via tde-users wrote:
On 2024-05-08 12:28:13 William Morder via tde-users
wrote:
Yes, I can see the point, but for me it's not happening. Maybe other people
don't care so much, and that's fine for them.
For myself, I have had a few very upleasant incidents that were the result of
somebody tracking me online, and once, back when I ran Windoze, where I had
somebody get into my machine, was sending me threatening messages, got into
my accounts, changed user names and passwords.
On that occasion, I was lucky to be able to be able, with the help of a
friend, to be able to indentify the person and threaten police involvement,
and now I am think probably I ought to have gone through with it, rather than
letting the nut get away with it.
But anyway, that's myself and my own life. I wish to keep my private life
private, as much as possible. Also, I am getting too old to care about all
these bright and shiny new toys. I am not so involved in that world; I only
use these machines when they can actually help me.
Bill
It is odd that people have some idea that
Mastodon is more private, but
if all your information is out there where everybody can see it, then
it's not really private, and somebody out there will be tracking it. The
same with E.Liddell's suggestion about setting up one's own instance. It
doesn't help, unless we can be truly anonymous.
But privacy is not the problem that Mastodon and other Federation software
intend to solve; they are trying to provide "social" internet services that
do not lock the user to a particular platform.
Leslie