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I am at the point in my digital live where I'd rather use a chinese service, knowing all too well how strong their surveiliance is, but also knowing that my data would never leave china.

So, as long as I never visit china, the data is essentially dead. o.o So what, now they have this random horni german's data and stuff now... and now what? xD

While fighting through Broadcom's sucky AF websites, KBs and crap and then having to KYC my ass out just to download an ISO that was completely free to grab a week ago... was pure pain. o.o

Privacy in the west isn't dead, but it's limping at best. And that surveiliance spans multiple continents and a good dozens of countries - whilst China is just ... China. o.o

iunno man...

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Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

There is a third way. Own your own data. Own the algorithm. Own your apps. Store data locally, in relays, on servers, in git. Make apps that work on the data. Yes, you have to start small. But over time it is possible to take back large territories of the internet.

Ingwie Phoenix (aka. birb) 1y ago

This is why I selfhost as much as I can - but there are certain things I'd rather not. Like E-Mail - I use ProtonMail fo rthat. Or, off-site backups - a means to recover some of the most important things, should the worst case happen. So eventhough I selfhost nearly everything from files, to messaging, to calendar and whatnot, there is a use for external services as either a backup or secondary backbone.

And if I have to use any of that, I might as well chose very clearly what I would want to use. I'd never use OneDrive, although my data is encrypted, for instance (using rclone's "crypt" layer for file contents, filenames and foldernames - all the way).

So if there ever happens to be a service X that I can not selfhost for one reason or another, and I see a chinese competitor in the space, I am likely to pivot there rather than an american thing, as long as I get a means to secure it. Should it then leak anyway, it's more likely to stay in china than would it have leaked from a western company.

That said, this is just /my/ mindset. o.o

Melvin Carvalho 1y ago

rclone is fantastic, needs a #nostr auth module with nip-98

agree it doesnt matter too much whether to store commodity data in western or eastern data stores, both have weaknesses

owning your own data, and then coupling them to apps, "smart data" if you will, is my motivattion for making https://nosdav.com/ (WIP)