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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by unicornporn on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:29AM (#12428908)
Domain: decentralize.today. Published on: Medium.

Seriously, it isn't THAT hard to at least host your blog outside the centralized disservices. You could argue that reach is negatively affected. It probably is. But if everybody (and that includes the outlets promoting decentralization) just swallows the bait, how can things ever change? (Wo)man up!

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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by pjmlp on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:49AM (#12428979)
Having been raised in a country enjoying the first winds of freedom after a dictatorship of 44 years, I wonder how serious this kind of blog posts are.

Sometimes they look just doing activism from the couch.

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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by maglavaitss on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:59AM (#12429017)
Anything that raises a flag and makes people think and consider alternatives to FB, Google, printed money, etc, is good activism. Whether it's from the couch or the armchair, is irrelevant.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by pjc50 on Monday September 05, 2016 @05:06AM (#12429038)
FB, Google, printed money

One of these things is not like the others.

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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by iamdave on Monday September 05, 2016 @05:15AM (#12429071)
I don't think their point was to make precise and completely congruent analogues of these three topics.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by pjc50 on Monday September 05, 2016 @05:46AM (#12429176)
It's more that I don't want sensible concerns about privacy in online services diluted by monetary theory that's at best "fringe".
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by Hondor on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:02AM (#12429450)
The article identifies the risk that printed money will disappear, replaced with a few large credit card companies and banks so the government can monitor everyone's use of money. Since we're clearly already heading in that direction bit by bit, I wouldn't call it a fringe theory.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by zanny on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:39AM (#12429856)
It is only fringe / extremist / conspiracy theorist when its a problem I don't personally have (or have not exerted the mental energy to fully understand). If it is affecting my life, it is serious mainstream business we need to take seriously.

That is a fundamental problem with online discourse. People put on blinders on singular crusades when reality is the combined effects of many, many forces influencing one another. Topically, the anti-encryption movement by governments is tied to broader totalitarian leanings by many traditionally republican states in the west, which has hundreds of influential aspects in all kinds of fields of business and society. And those leanings have correlations in everything from fearmongering to economic uncertainty to long running campaigns by certain interests that have lasted decades.

And then we get trapped in this rat hole of arguing over what is "serious" or meaningful, when in hindsight we can historically recognize almost all of history is the combined effect of many influencing factors not apparent at that moment in the past.

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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by patrickaljord on Monday September 05, 2016 @05:54AM (#12429210)
Yeah, one of these are being forced upon us by guns.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by GunboatDiplomat on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:53AM (#12429926)
Printed money as opposed to what? Printed money is far better from a privacy standpoint than electronic money.

And no, bitcoin or similar is not going to be a realistic replacement.

Neither is money backed by gold or the element or compound of your choice.

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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by bogomipz on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:11AM (#12429477)
What do you not find serious about it?. The author is sighting actual examples of behavior that they find concerning. Do you doubt the veracity of these examples? Also Why does it matter where activism is conducted from?
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by natch on Monday September 05, 2016 @04:53AM (#12428992)
Maybe they're not yet perfect, but kudos to them for at least decoupling services so they keep more flexibility to move anywhere.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by mastazi on Monday September 05, 2016 @08:16AM (#12429738)
Maybe the author should give a look at https://selfhosted.libhunt.com/ - there are a lot of decentralised blog engines around.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by nebulon on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @03:36AM (#12434229)
You could also checkout https://cloudron.io we do try to make it a lot more user friendly and approachable to self-host your blog and lots of other app categories. I think once self-hosting such apps doesn't require much technical knowledge anymore, it removes a lot of friction for users.
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by mastazi on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @08:17PM (#12449187)
Yes I really like Cloudron, it's one of the best possible solutions to introduce less technical people to self hosting
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Re:Privacy and control need to be put back into the hands of... by mSparks on Monday September 05, 2016 @06:37AM (#12429346)
Its not even a real article. Just some mindless repetition of some braindead cia propoganda against foreign governments being used to promote a new crypto currency called shadowcash.

Yawn.

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