“Won’t somebody think of the kids?!” while they admit to using the data to squeeze more money from ads (translated making your experience better). They don’t deserve the communities they have anymore.

Soon any company you interact with will have enough information to ruin your life because there’s always a way for some employee to get the data even of you really do what you promise and don’t save anything.

As GLaDOS said - it’s been fun, don’t come back.

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      Sadly there’s nothing many people in the communities here. I would live fo vet rid of it completely but it doesn’t seem that I’d be able to get as much help here, e.g. about my motorbike, as on reddit - it has a dedicated community there with quite a lot of people wich sadly isn’t happening any time soon here.

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      There’s not nearly enough sports discussion here for that. None of you Linux nerds talk about football/baseball/hockey. (Or Magic, for that matter.)

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        Then start talking about it, that sounds interesting, and I would genuinly love to hear about those topics, you, filthy animal.

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          Unfortunately my interest in the topics does not extend far enough to be the one digging through statistics and press releases. In the 1-9-90 I’m a 9.

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            (I am a 6 on a good day, but I don’t brag about it)

            You should not disclose your age on the internet, my fellow human. This place is full of creeps. In any case, I hope you may find fun and interesting things in lemmy. Also, if you want to contribute, that’d be great!

            stay cool :)

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        Lemmy isn’t enough, and that’s fine.

        Find you some old school internet forums. They’re still out there, and it’s not quite as much a “one Boomer and his 2 buddies” as you might expect.

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          In a literal sense sure, but not in a way that matters. As an example: The New England Patriots subreddit has 900k subs. It has dozens of posts made in the last 24 hours, with anywhere between 5 and 200 comments on each. The largest Patriots community here, patriots@lemmy.ml, has 338 subs and literally no activity in the last 9 months. Five weeks into the season!

          That’s not a problem that can be fixed by one person’s can-do attitude, that’s a problem of scale. Lemmy needs to grow 100 times over to even approach that kind of experience.

          Now, I don’t think lemmy needs to feel like reddit. But I also think it’s small-minded to be like “just stop using reddit” as if there were viable alternatives.

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            I remember back before there was enough football fans to even justify team specific subs on reddit. It didn’t happen by magic. More people kept talking, that attracted more people, and so on.

            The point being that no community has ever grown without participation. If you want more people talking about football you got to actually talk about football. I don’t know if I’ve ever seen you in the NFL community. There was a game thread just a few days ago, you could have talked about the Patriots in that thread. They were playing.

            Though I do agree the propensity of people on the fediverse who try to create little niche communities right away is a giant failing. Instead of doing it naturally and organically by making larger General communities that eventually get big enough to split off they try to create little ones right away and that fragments everything. I wish there was some way to stop that, or at least delete dead communities.

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    I love “all photos are encrypted so your information remains private”. Encrypted to whom? Private from whom? I don’t want you to have it! I’m more worried about you then the guy at the coffee shop. He can already see my face!

    You’re going to have a hard time judging my age by a photo you can’t decrypt, so don’t pull that shit with me.

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      They remain encrypted, but also stolen, decrypted and sold. It’s like schrodinger’s cat, but there’s no one to observe the state.

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        There also not safe, but we’re very sorry for the leak which got the IDs of 10 000 of our customers.

        Didn’t Pesona even get caught in a lie just like this in the past?

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    Don’t worry, your data will remain private. We’ll have it, and we’ll sell it, of course, but that’s our right. Also, we might be hacked when some bad guy guesses our Pa$$worD, or we make an oopsie and leave the entire server open and unencrypted. But, other than that, your driver’s license is safe with us.

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    I refuse to give this information outside of serious financial or governmental proceedings, where you might expect that you will have to deposit a proof of identity.

    I’ll rather drop every single platform requiring this then to engage with this circus. “What about the kids” my ass.

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      Yeah, one thing is a bank or a government and another is this… Everyone and their mother will have my id and I have to believe it will be safe?

      What about the kids? How is their data protected with these systems where security it quite often an afterthought?

      Also - they apparently think I’m a kid, why are they still serving me targetted ads? “What about the kids”?

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    I tricked the aliexpress age verification with an image from google. I wonder if this will work here too.

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    Yah… My old (abandoned) reddit account is quite old, if you cant prove im not a child by the account being two decades old, thats a you problem. Find me in 2029 and we can talk, but until then, were going no contact.

    [Updates DNS and router block list]

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    “All photos are encrypted…”

    Why the Hell do you need to fucking store them? If I rejuvenate to a 12 year old?!

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    Just recently I had to travel to Germany by train on short notice. The German online ticket portal also wanted my ID and selfie when paying because it was an iNtErNaTiOnAl journey. I just booked it through my local country’s international ticketing portal and they didn’t even mention it.

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      I wouldn’t really put it like that. There a reason many people who just don’t understand it.

      I bought a lock for my house. A professional locksmith can easily call me a dumb fuck for choosing that one but with the knowledge I had I chose the best option I could think of.

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    I wonder if there would be a market for life-like heads on… like… a ventriloquist dummy type of thing…. And I very much mean for security bypassing get your filthy mind out of there.

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      I hought its possible on reddit too? Good catch, a wrote this angry and tired and I use an app that I’m not familiar with. Great time!