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: > > 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 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 ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
