I believed we were better than Reddit… I truly believe this should be a BASIC feature. On Reddit you have to manually delete every single post, if you forget to do that basically your entire posts and comments history will be online forever…

I know there’s still internet archive ecc ecc ecc, but still I believe this should just be an activitypub feature, not something to be managed by single platforms.

I have tried every possible set up, I’ve got to say that the best one so far for me is sychthing + Koreader: dead simple, no databases, synchs annotations and highlights as well, books are simply epub files + metadata.

Aka no dealing with exports, database corruption or stuff like that.

Break free from Google by giving your money to Google!

After how much time? I was banned because of using third party client, I did the kyc process at the time because I wanted to delete the account but still I could not access…

It’s been years for me and they didn’t delete it yet.

lovely

That’s something to do while we still can, Instagram doesn’t let me delete my own account :/ Tried reaching the support multiple times, I’ve been completely ignored

Oh well all of this explains why I sometimes get instagram ADS which are relevant to me on my work phone even if I looked for stuff on my PC browser or smartphone (all using adblocks, deegogled android, private DNS, tracker blockers, private browsers and other preventive measures).

I didn’t realize they could literally track you probabilistically or they could tie different devices to you…

So essentially if I use my amazon account on the same PC (or on a device tied to me) that I use for looking at “cat food” I am screwed and they will know I have a cat and amazon will start advertising cat stuff to me?

I did know they tracked you, but I thought it had to be a consistent set of datas: accounts, unprotected browsing, keeping cookies for a long time etc etc… I didn’t know they could probabilistically try to catch you nor that they could so reliably tie devices togheter… I would like to know more about what they can actually do and what are preventive measures that actually works…

For example: can they (and how) get over tracker blockers? VPNs? Proxies? Private DNS? Degoogled devices/Linux?

What I’ve got to do if I want to be on the internet preserving my privacy? Should I literally stop using the internet? Should I use devices on which I do not login on a normal account ever and just use my self hosted stuff or the federated web?

And what about all the data they already have on me, it will be their’s forever??

This is getting ridiculous, we need new solutions, the internet as we now know it is completely screwed.

How can they tie it to me tho? Or use it against me? Especially if behind ddg “proxy”

In my experience matrix is a total mess with plenty of bugs, also uses quite a lot server resources. xmpp is lighter, easier to set up and works flawlessly, and seem also easier to proxy or do stuff like that with it. Calls are kinda messy to set up tho.

What do you mean by “shadow profile”?

The first command worked, the second one is still showing up http have died unexpectedly error 127

apt-get -f install

I tried it already, but I get method http has died unexpectedly https subprocess error code 127

apt autoremove says dependencies are lacking

apt --fix-broken install gives me: method http has died unexpectedly

I get dependency errors when trying to execute that dpkg command, other apt commands, if I execute --fix-broken I get:

method http has died unexpectedly

Other apt commands give me:

Dependencies not met

(I freed up disk space)

It’s simply another case where we have amazing technologies but we lack the right ways to use them, that’s what our culture does: creating amazing techs that can solve lots of human problems and then discarding the part that actually solves a problem unless it’s also profitable for the individual.

It literally is a problem of people wanting to submit other people for power games, that’s not how all societies work, but that’s a foundation for ours, but we’re playing this game so much that we almost broke the console (planet earth and our own bodies health).

It’s an anthropological problem, not a technological one.

I have been thinking about it for quite a long time, my dream is a linux e ink minimal smartphone, i think it would be the right mix between convenience, freedom and minimalism

I feel like this will put them much more under the authorities target, music is much more sensible than books, simply because it moves more money…

Anyway I still am wondering how they managed to do this and how they still didn’t get caught, there must be reeeally good devs there.

I couldn’t make it work whatever I did, whichever instance I used it seemed to get rate limited after a while or showing weird results…

Def good for a PC, def not good for an e reader

I guess getting a flip phone and stick to an eBook reader would be a good solution