Or maybe people could just not be creeps?

People who study how to convince people are more trusted than people trained to talk in technical jargon about specific fields. Shocker there.

WINNER 🥬🥬🥬🥬🥬

Telling someone to improve their privacy is like telling them to eat healthier. They probably know on some level that they should do better, but it’s breaking habits. Changing their…everything is a daunting task on top of everything they actually want to do.

It’s a sales pitch, so I’d say sell them on one small lift at a time (Firefox, uBlock, DuckDuckGo) and build on them as they get comfortable with privacy control. Don’t shame them, don’t look down on them, don’t be overly pushy.

They own Ico?!

Edit: Sony owns Japan Studio, which owns Ico.

sigh of relief

On the flip side: Flock is giving people awareness of other surveillance creepware.

YOU HAVE MADE A BLOOD PACT WITH WORLD.

ML HATES YOU NOW

This is even after blocking instances, communities, keywords and some personal ublock rules.

That’s so much extra work

Boiling it down to 3 things:

1. Content Scale & Variety - Lemmy has a lot of content but it’s very tech/political heavy. It doesn’t have much to offer outside of that domain. Meanwhile, there’s a whole shitposting subreddit dedicated to an NFL conference – I don’t even closely follow professional American football, but it’s glorious.
2. User Experience Friction - You can’t just sign up, you need to pick a server. You’ve already lost a significant amount of people in that step.
3. User Base - There’s nice folks on here, but some really sour the experience for the rest of us by being straight up hostile if we don’t agree on every little detail.