• Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.net
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        She can have somebody help install a new app on her phone if she needs help. Sorry but statistically you probably voted to create the society that made this necessary, even if they were a Democrat they still probably voted in the primaries for corporate politicians who also push surveillance. It’s basic cause and effect

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          I can’t tell if you’re missing the joke or if I’m missing it right now. I’m Australian btw, so statistically, I voted in an Australian election.

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            No, no, everyone on the internet is from the USA AMERICA FUCK YEAH AMIRIGHT BROTHER!! 🦅🦅🦅 red vs blue, dems vs republicans AMIRIGHT!!!

            This comment brought to you by aussie.zone.

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      Right. Look, I want people moving to more independent services too, but I know that sometimes you have to meet people where they are. I keep Meta accounts because sometimes I need to see family pictures or engage with some random FB group.

      You can work on getting people to try things and adapt without just going “Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all.”

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        I mean, if they were somehow forcing them all to move the group chat, sure. That might be a valid argument then.

        But as it is, it seems they simply left the group chat, and said “if you want me in it, move it to signal.”

        That’s not forcing anyone to do anything. That’s setting a boundary. The people trying to pressure OOP into using software they don’t trust are the only ones trying to force anything.

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          Isn’t MK in this scenario doing the same thing? Trying to put pressure on their family to use a piece of software they don’t know and aren’t comfortable using?

          I mean yeah, MK’s take is more informed, but sides are likely to see it as the other side trying to get them to cave.

          Anyway. Rereading, “Signal is better opsec” when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.

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            I think they’re more saying they won’t participate in an imessage group chat. Which would ordinarily be fine. It’s only strange in this case because they’re still using imessage.

            Anyway. Rereading, “Signal is better opsec” when your 92yo grandmother wants to plan Thanksgiving is cracking me up.

            If palantir knows who’s bringing the stuffing, what else do they know about you and your family?

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        “I only support a genocidal wannabe oligarch who actively uses his pet propaganda network to directly influence elections and policy across the globe in an effort to bring back feudalism because not doing so would be mildly inconvenient” isn’t exactly the hot take you think it is tbh.

        If you kept using Facebook services after Cambridge Analytica then you are part of the problem, period.

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        No…

        No.

        I’m tired of being consistently correct and it taking other people a decade to figure that out.

        Fuck you, you do it my way or not at all.

        I’m an introvert, I’ll be fine without you.

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          Also conceding ground just gives the powers of evil what they want. If more than one person in the group chat got insistent then that would be a lot more leverage. If the majority decide it was time to move the move has already happened and the ones who haven’t moved are the ones who are being obnoxious and sticking to a different app

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            Everything is horrible and awful, but trying to hold my own friends and family accountable for their own actions?

            Well that’s just rude, unreasonable!

            … It’s genuinely comical how hypocritical, how turbolib coded it is, to offer any defense whatsoever for a person to continue engaging in a harmful practice when the alternative already exists and works and takes maybe 90 seconds to switch over to, at literally no monetary cost.

            Everyone is wrong and dumb, except the people in my immediate proximity, they’re just misunderstood!

            Fucking spare me.

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      I mean, it has to be satire, they even said “iMessage” instead of text, meaning the guy super obsessed with privacy still uses an iPhone…

      And still clearly uses it. Because that’s what the screenshot is from.

      Are people taking that as an authentic conversation?

      I overestimate people a lot, but I’m genuinely confused if I’m overestimating they hypothetical screenshot and people are dumb enough to be like that, or if I’m overestimating people who see it and can’t tell it’s an obvious joke…

      It’s the eternal quesion

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        Are people taking that as an authentic conversation?

        no, but opsec people will genuinely act like this sometimes

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          I was curious enough to look at twitter…

          That’s 100% a shit post account, absolutely nothing they post should be considered authentic:

          https://x.com/mkaylaultra

          I did chuckle at the one about “only negotiating with Dr Pepper himself” one tho.

          But yeah, anybody that thought they were serious bit the onion

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        It’s a very thin line these days. It’s like trying to distinguish theonion vs nottheonion articles.

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          This one was satire, I googled the account name and nothing they post is serious

          I’m not doubting there are people who care about privacy but don’t know anything about it. But the account who made the twitter post, was making fun of those people.

          They just didn’t put “/s”

          And when a screenshot strips all context, it’s really hard to tell. Which is why I actually went to twitter, it’s the only way to be sure.

          People need to stop taking things presented in a vacuum with zero context, as whatever they first assume it to be.

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        Yeah apparently you are (overestimating).

        A guy named MK Ultra Victim posting obvious satire isn’t clear enough for a lot of Lemmy users, who’d rather pontificate against the parody.

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      just using the word opsec with your mom when you aren’t a family of International spies is super cringe, imo