↳ In-reply-to » @darch @abucci @movq Hmm, comparision to e-mail lacks quite a few important bits I reckon. First of all, the pull mechanism applies only to the receiving e-mail part. However, sending mails is push, maybe some yarnd gossipping fills in that gap, no idea. Also there's no e-mail address equivalent, so everybody can read your stuff (ok, true for unencrypted e-mails, too), but here literally everybody can read your feed. Also, the complexity of e-mail is a very different beast.

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Actually you are somewhat right about and I empathise with your point of view. As much as I believe in what we’ve built here, I also recognise its not for everyone. The “masses” (as we call ‘em) are (as you say) truly lost. It is next to impossible to pry them away from all this centralised privacy eroding garbage as they almost just “don’t get it”.

I’ve found myself saying in conversations with my wife and friends and family, with the increase in data branches, that we will only start to question the way things are and where our data is stored and with whom, only (and only if) it started to hurt a lot more than it already is.

With the recent branches of Optus and Medibank here in Australia, Australians are starting to feel the pain of identity fraud, theft, increased difficulty in dealing with institutions (like taking your own money out of a bank!) and so on…