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As the Internet Gets Scarier, More Parents Keep Their Kids’ Photos Offline (getpocket.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Here's a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It's great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I recently found out about Circles and was hoping to migrate friends and family to it, but it's just too much of a learning curve to get things set up.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

That looks cool, I hadn't heard of Circles before. I want to check it out now. I'm curious if it somehow keeps your data private from the server owner. That feels like the missing feature in most federated, privacy-focused social networks.

Side note: looks like it's made by Futo; I hadn't realized they were working on something like that. I've been using another one of their apps, Grayjay for almost all of my mobile Youtube viewing lately. It works great.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I read through their EULA the other day, and it seems everything is E2EE so only the recipients can see the data, but they do have access to some stuff such as last login, usernames, etc.

I have a few friends using it, and it's nice once you get it going, but adding/ finding friends is a bit of a headache in my experience

[–] possiblylinux127 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If it is made by anyone associated with Grayjay then I'm out

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't heard anything bad about Grayjay before; what's the issue with it?

[–] possiblylinux127 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Non free software pretending to be foss. It pisses me off and it can't possibly be better than third party clients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay it is a paid program that is why it is not allowed to fork from it atleast without approval .Altough you can use it without paying

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Exactly, it is not Foss

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I mean it is not foss ,but more open than the youtube client app

[–] possiblylinux127 1 points 7 months ago

That's bad comparison. Why use something that harms your freedom when you could use something that protects it? Grayjay is up there with Nord VPN and other services shilled by Youtubers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (2 children)

But, how are they making their revenue?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

they charge $3 per month for 10GB of storage

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I wonder the same