And it’s the mail server and everything just like Google work suite?

(We have thousands of docs in Google format)

Yes

The privacy is provable. If you know what code you're running on your own machine.

Caveat: perfect privacy doesn't exist 🤙

Next cloud looks to be minimum 100 users and is still cloud based…so I’m confused as to how it helps with privacy.

Help me understand 🙏

Depends on how technically inclined you are and what you plan to use the node for. If you want to use it with Nostr for sending and receiving zaps, then a LND implementation, such as Alby Hub, is preferable, since I don't believe Core Lightning uses Lightning Addresses, and Nostr clients haven't integrated the ability to receive via a BOLT-12 offer.

gm 😂

Maybe it's an EU regulation? Sucks to hear this

Why you might want to opt out from data collection?

1️⃣ Advertising

Advertising companies are middlemans, collecting data on users, to advertise to them their companies ads. They lock in users by having many companies, and lock in companies by having many users with advertisement profiles.

The more data is collected, the better your profile, easier to sell you things you don't need.

Usually these companies are offering free services in return for showing you ads. But the main issue is, they are earning money by selling you stuff, instead of making their free service better.

That is why, in most cases, after companies get big enough, and unexitable by locking their private and business customers in, they can start to decrease or just don't improve the quality of their service.

In such a case, they are only incentivized to milk you more, because where could you go?

2️⃣ Used against you

Your search history may reveal interesting things about you, when you search for something you did not understand, and by grabbing it out of context, it can be used against you.

E.g.: your bag beeps on an airport, and you look for, what these detectors beep for. Then voilá, grabbing this out of context, why did you look for this info? Do you want to carry something that could beep?

We can even hear stories, where you can get into trouble only by being connected to other bad people. E.g. buying a second hand phone, that was used by a criminal before. (Of course bad is from the perspective of people in control. This definition can also easily change. For the better or worse)

3️⃣ Stolen

Colleced data can also be stolen. If 1-1 company stores huge amount of information about you, it even makes it easier, because only they have to be hacked.

Stolen data can be used for identity theft (e.g.: applying for loan and make bad credit for the stolen identity), credit card copying. So basically to stole money with it.

4️⃣ Control you

Data collection is the basis of surveillance and control. If lot of your data is collected, it will be easier to predict your behaviour with a bigger accuracy. Therefore, it will be easier to control you.

#datacollection #personaldata #data #plebchain #grownostr #nostr

Best node running on someone else's hardware? No such thing. Best node is running on your own hardware.

If you absolutely must pay someone else to host your node, Alby Hub is very user friendly and plays nice with Nostr apps via Nostr Wallet Connect.

The cloud is just someone else computer