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  • Mostly everyone who says taking someone else’s property is okay if you feel they deserve it

    I don’t think that’s ok. Humans need their space, man.

    If you don’t see a huge commie bent here, then I would assume it’s because you are a commie or are commie-adjacent

    I see a moderate and a left bent here. Both of those I vibe with, but the left isn’t synonymous with communism or even marxism.

    And there’s also idealism, of course - there’s plenty of that everywhere on the Internet.

    My view of the left is that they want an infra that’s more aligned with the EU or Scandanavia.

    That’s definitely not communism. NK is communist, and there are very few people who want NK.






  • and requires a kernel level always on spy driver to watch the Chrome process to prevent tampering with it?

    That would be one method, yeah. The attester supplies a kernel driver and uses that to generate the auth tokens communicating with it via some protocol or via scanning memory.

    The driver is just chilling in the machine, perhaps even evasive to lsmod, such that the only way to detect it is to have your own driver monitoring for some specific signal before the attestor driver gets installed, and then using that signal to track its installation.

    There’s always a way. But, as you say, with phones it’s not as simple.

    GrapheneOS or some other ROM on an unlocked Android phone is probably going to be the only way of bypassing it.






  • So they should have… done nothing and given in?

    Given in to what? The same dynamic that the majority of social media companies have imposed on their users?

    One thing to remember is TPA users (of which I was one) were 3% of the website. 3%. Not a very large figure.

    In this capitalistic environment, the dynamic is built off of the most a-moral “fuck you, we can get away with it” approach to business that operates within legal bounds that ultimately allow for a corporation to come out on top. Maybe they break a law, have to pay fines, whatever; as long as they can still profit and make investors/shareholders happy, they’re probably going to get away with it.

    Yes, it’s fucked up. 9/10 times, it doesn’t matter what the media says and it doesn’t matter what the users say.

    It sucks, but like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, Google, Apple, etc. all of which have screwed their users over on multiple occasions, they’re still in business, chugging along, people are still using their services.

    The alternative choice is Stockholm Syndrome.

    By that logic, what’s the difference if, after all of this, still nothing changes and you still use their service?

    We have Lemmy, kbin, Mastodon, etc. They’re a great alternative.

    Yes, the communities aren’t as fleshed out, over time it will get better.

    Reddit is thankfully more optional than a lot of other services.

    You can stop using Reddit and go about your day to day obligations.

    Services like Amazon and Google are a lot harder to give up.

    I wonder what we could do to prevent things like this from happening in the future?

    Maybe looking more into the political frameworks that exist, laws, and thinking realistically about what changes can be made in the near future, while also trying to understand the challenges that we would be faced against.


  • Maybe they’re not as smart as you’d like.

    You think I want them to be smart? Lol.

    Something controversial happens -> a lot of people get pissed off (understandably so) -> media milks the shit out of the event -> narratives - true, false, embellished, whatever get created -> mischaracterization for anyone who’s approach to handling the situation isn’t in line with majority rule, blah blah blah -> the bad guys (usually) walk away fine.

    That’s a very common cycle.

    I wasn’t happy with what happened, but it’s been 2 months at this point, and what I’ve gathered is that nothing is going to change.

    And yet because I say that these protests are fruitless people get mad and go absolutely nuts on the downvote button.

    Sorry, I was under the impression we could have an open discussion without making assumptions in bad faith about people who disagree with the rationale.

    My bad 🤚




  • The company’s model is fundamentally not under their own control, which is a knife that cuts both ways.

    That’s like saying Facebook’s model is not fundamentally under its own control. The same with Twitter, or any other social media.

    Calling it a hijacking when it was never under anyone else’s control is not just wrong, it’s actually entirely backwards. Reddit is the one hijacking the subreddits.

    Reddit owns the servers which host the subreddits.

    Preventing users from accessing your subreddit, as a moderater (who is also not an employee of the company), as a form of protest, is a means of trying to control the website’s overall behavior.

    So, yes, it is a high jacking attempt. Not an effective one, but one nonetheless.