The issue we have is hardware. Yes software and walled gardens are horrific but at least we have options. We have to drastically simplify devices that facilitate money transmission, social interaction and communication (a Nostr universe). We need to somehow get to a raspberrypi type outcome where we can plug and play the level of hardened-ness of our devices to suit opsec requirements. I think we need dumber devices not more complex ones.

Bonkers that keeping digital details of your life to yourself is literally a luxury and not a default.

And then when you voluntarily hand your infomartion over to them and it gets hacked and they say ‘sorry here’s some money for your ID troubles’ you wonder if you could have gotten more money selling your info on the black market yourself.

moving outside the open market helps a lot. there's other stuff going on that is not going to be helpful to those who are trying to manipulate the market to become a money syphon for them. they did well so far but the more advanced the science gets the less of an edge they have with their scattered webs of deception.

anyway, nobody in the opensats or HRF sponsorship of nostr dev actually cares about this. just try to use a typical bureaucratically sponsored nostr app with tor browser.

oh, nobody made one for that!

let alone collaborative privacy. you know, like the stuff that a normal company would expect from their service providers.

I realized the "I don't care about privacy" thing is a non-issue. We've all made a critical mistake. You don't get "privacy" .. you get "the right to privacy" or otherwise stated as "no arbitrary interference with his privacy". The thing is, whether you care about privacy is not the issue.

You *are* allowed to *not* care.

You are protected for *making your own decisions* for what is private for you, or otherwise stated no-one is just arbitrarily allowed to decide your matters aren't private. That's the right we need to protect. And anyone can choose whichever way suits them for every individual matter for themselves.

And that's just for starters

Good post and good blog, worth a look and a share or two

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I wonder if somebody could build something like privacy mixers, kind of like coin mixers?

We also already have dna collection through ancestry.com and the like which opens up intergenerational layers, for example, health info. An amazing book ‘The Invisible History of the Human Race’ by Christine Kenneally also talks about how owning the data also enables changing it. Just like every other tool humanity invents, it can be used for good or ill. I observe that those who are drawn to the procedural development of, for example dna collection banks, or data scraping, are typically so left hemisphere dominant in their thinking that they don’t/can’t imagine the breath and depth of potentiel risks, while simultaneously perceiving themselves to be more knowledgeable than anyone else. Iain McGilchrist does great work on this. So the task is not just to educate the normies to the risks of giving up data, but also to educate the clever developers/inventers to the potentiel risks their genius tools/weapons can be.

This is the ultimate argument for going analog. The only way to truly beat the algorithm is to do something it can't predict, like suddenly deciding to sell yacht https://www.yachttrading.com/sell-yacht/ and move to a cabin with no internet access. Checkmate, data brokers.