That’s a false comparison. You can very easily spy on your users and choose not to do anything if they do something illegal. Or better yet, if they do something illegal in a country you don’t like. You can even encourage them in that situation.
Feedback is welcome:
A lot of sidewalks in major cities don’t have room for these. Especially if you account for traffic, light, and power poles, street signs, bus and trolley stops, subway and El entrances, sidewalk trees, garbage, trash and recycling bins, sidewalk grates, cellar entries, cracked sidewalks, etc, etc, etc.
That’s pretty awful because it seems to me they take about the same space as a wheelchair.
Seems like it would have been a good moment to split the database from the many web servers and reduce the single point of failure.
Since it’s Firefox based, do they even have the option to release their software with GPL components?
The decision was made according to the report after the Commission became aware of the group’s existence last month and deemed the risk of compromise too high. While there is no evidence yet that communication has actually been intercepted, the threat situation has escalated.
No, they invented mastodon. Which is the thing they’re adjusting.
They didn’t invent HTTP either, which they’re not claiming ownership of by using it in mastodon.
I don’t think it’s too much for the company that makes mastodon to claim mastodon is “it’s decentralised social network”. The way I read it they don’t claim ownership, they claim to be the author.
https://harshanu.space/en/tech/ccc-vs-gcc/ has a good overview how bad it really is
Time to ask for a refund of the 0 money you paid to use it.