Developers, it’s time for you to choose a side: will you help rid the web of privacy-invading tracking or be complicit in it?

https://cleanuptheweb.org/

#CleanUpTheWeb #FlocOffGoogle

  • DePingus@lemmy.ml
    55·
    3 years ago

    The web is Iost cause. You can choose to leave. There are projects out there like Gemini.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.ml
      122·
      3 years ago

      Gemini is irrelevant. Nobody will use that except an exclusive club of geeks. It’s a neat little project but stands no chance in solving our problems.

      I don’t think independent software develpers are going to solve this problem. I wonder who the intended audience of this website is. Yeah, my blog with at most hundreds of visitors won’t abuse the data of end users, but who cares? The big centralized services will pay no heed. You can’t solve this with software choices, you need to get control of your government and make this shit illegal.

      • Helix@lemmy.ml
        102·
        3 years ago

        Back in the 70s and 80s, the Internet was irrelevant. Nobody used it except an exclusive club of geeks. It was a neat little project.

    • federico3@lemmy.ml
      22·
      3 years ago

      Gemini has a poor design. It does not solve many of the problems of the web and it lacks a lot of required functions.

        • federico3@lemmy.ml
          1·
          3 years ago

          Gemini claims to “Takes user privacy very seriously” and yet it leaks the client and server IP addresses to each other and to network observers by not using any form of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mix_network.

          It claims to “Strives for maximum power to weight ratio” and yet does not support caching.

          It does not support content-addressed sites in any form: to host a single-page static site the user has to pay for a VPS or buy some SBC, pay for a domain and configure DNS. The “lightweight” aspect is the protocol itself, not the deployment effort.

          The protocol is “non-extensible by design” but obviously cannot prevent users from adding higher-level markups in some clients and start adding complexity, exactly what happened for the web.