Dylan @Dylanrod@fosstodon.org

@auramun I'm using LineageOS + microG, and F-Droid as an app store.

https://lineage.microg.org/
http://f-droid.org/

I'm also working for a company that is developing an open alternative to the Google ecosystem.

https://e.foundation/

our Founder and CEO Todd Weaver: "Given the growing importance of Purism’s mission amid the barrage of news about how large tech companies are surveilling and exposing their users, it seemed like an opportune time to share our origin story..." #ThrowbackThursday https://puri.sm/posts/purism-origin-story/

It is in our best interest as developers and users to work together in the fediverse.

Pixelfed is not competing with Mastodon or any other fedi project. The amount of MAU the whole fediverse has is under 1m users. A drop in the bucket compared to centralized, corporate, social media.

(MAU = Monthly Active Users)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_virtual_communities_with_more_than_100_million_active_users

World: Google, you are so smart, impartial, and benevolent, please write all our protocols and standards.

Google: Oh yeah, btw, we don’t think you should be able to protect yourself from being tracked on our browser.

Google to break uBlock Origin on Chromium.

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=896897&desc=2#c23

#SurveillanceCapitalism #Google

I don't disagree with Tim Cook, but this also irks me. I have no belief that Apple has any concerns for my privacy or anybody else's privacy beyond the fact that it hurts Google and Google competes with Apple.

"Apple CEO Tim Cook: It's Time for Action on Data Privacy"

http://time.com/collection/davos-2019/5502591/tim-cook-data-privacy/

#surveillance