You would think that someone at Proton would've had the foresight to realise the reputational damage this (along with the LLM announcement) would do to the company.
Without wanting to sound smart after the fact, I've been suspicious about Proton for years. I briefly had an email account with them but I could never quite shake the feeling there is something off about the whole company. This move just confirms to me I was correct to be suspicious.
Depending on what part of the world these people live in, the actions of these vigilantes might screw up the chance of a successful prosecution.
I'm in the UK and I remember watching a copper interviewed on the the TV asking people not to do it as a lot of the time it results in inadmissible evidence and might even give pedos chance to delete evidence. I think he also said he was aware of multiple instances of the pedo-hunters getting the wrong person at the 'sting'.
That said, I doubt these pedo-hunters really care about abused kids, it seems mostly about bragging rights and youtube views.
No, I don't think so. Today I've read and participated in some great threads about UK politics, the books people are currently reading, some great metal (the music genre) recommendations, Linux distros that are both privacy respecting but easy to use and a few other things.
I was on reddit pretty much from the start of the Digg migration. It's not really comparable as reddit didn't have subs or comments at first it was literally a link aggregator with votes. When they did start appearing it was OK and then it got increasingly not OK very quickly. I took long, long breaks from it over the years and every time I succumbed and returned with a new account it was noticeably a lot worse. I won't go back again as it feels like every sub, even the smaller ones, are just bombs either constantly going off or about to go off. It thrives on negativity.
Lemmy simply isn't like that. I'm not naive enough to think it never might be, but right now it's not. Of course there are fall outs and anger but not at the same level of constant vitriol I got accustomed to seeing on reddit.
Yes, these parents are essentially (and knowingly in some cases) pimping their kids and that is awful.
But let's not minimise the fact that the pedo's are the ones creating this situation. They're the ones sexualising these kids, they're the ones leaving fucking awful comments, they're the ones trying to coerce and threaten, they're the ones curating huge Telegram groups instructing other men how to locate these posts.
And let's also not minimise Meta's role in all this either. Reading that article it was clear that Meta literally don't give a fuck about these kids. At all.
It's not even that - the people this is directly affecting (for now) are the people who, if they raise their head above the parapet, it'll get shot off - the people least able to protest. 95% of the country are not lacking resistance, they're lacking empathy and foresight. They show plenty of resistance to media driven culture war bullshit like immigration and LGBTQIA+ issues.
Magento was open source before Adobe bought it, Flash wasn't.
Yep. This most basic aspect of Lemmy/KBin/MBin is its biggest advantage over Reddit. The fact that no one person, or company/organisation can ever own or control the entirety of the threadiverse is, to me, a huge factor in why I prefer it.
All centralised web based software like reddit is susceptible to exactly the kind of slow death Space Karen is inflicting on Twitter. Federation and decentralisation means that can never happen in the threadiverse.
As far as I'm aware, they found one dead hostage near, not at, the hospital, 1 vehicle with weapons, a film of a cache of weapons that BBC analysis showed had been edited and altered and 1 tunnel shaft.
Even if we take all that at face value (which the BBC analysis demonstrates we shouldn't), this is hardly the command centre of Hamas that the IDF has led us to believe was its reason for bombing a hospital.
There was a thread on here that I now can't find that worked out that, based on monies from advertising/number of users this price structure is indeed an insane price.
I can't find any clarification on the details of this either. Is it per service? So 10/13 euros pm for FB and another 10/13 for Insta?
And if you access either via desktop and mobile do you have to pay for both?
re your 2nd point, that's most certainly not been scrapped. The language has changed to basically say, they're aware thetech doesn't currently exist to do this but as soon as it does, it must be done. It's a temporary reprieve at best.
We (the UK) have to be honest about how it is we come to be a member of a G7 country. It didn't come about in the last 20 years, it came about because we were the leading world power between the Napoleonic Wars and the start of the 2nd world war. During that time slavery was legal, then made illegal but at the same time we colonised other countries, keeping their populations in conditions not much better than slavery.
When you include the Industrial Revolution and what some people say was our own 'internal' psuedo-slavery of the working classes, the UK became massively wealthy and it's a foundation and status that we still have today.
This wealth via exploitation and slavery had the effect of not only making us a rich nation but the countries we raided and colonised, very very poor. That's a foundation and status they still have today.
I don't know what the answer is, but we can't pretend it's a simple as 'this happened a long time ago and therefore doesn't count'.
Maybe they should stop caring about visibility and engagement and concentrate on participating in, building and y'know enjoying a community?