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Re: Metabook

#101

Post by wizzwizz4 »

jarcane wrote: post #8

> Start a site on Neocities, share photos on Pixelfed, or write your thoughts on Write.as — to name a few. This would be a more convincing pitch if it didn't end with "now just use different centralized services that nobody uses". We need protocols, not platform capitalism. We need easy self-hosting, not reliance on third-party middle men and rent-seekers. I should be able to click an app on my computer and have my o…

Neocities is a website; websites can link to each other. Sure, it's not perfect, but it's far better than nothing – and it's easy enough to move your website with HTTP redirects (to the extent that you can ever change a URL).

Pixelfed is part of the ActivityPub Fediverse, as is https://write.as (a https://writefreely.org instance). These are protocols.

Re: Metabook

#102

Post by joshspankit »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #72
tmikaeld wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, that will get you banned. And also if you use a picture of a pet or cartoon avatar..

>If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, sounds like a thing programmers believe about names: that you can tell when one is fictional or real.

The same company that ships your Oculus to your door is the same company that you log in with (and probably the same one that has your info from scraping someone else’s contact list)

Very easy to tell that your “real” name does not match your CC or your home address.

Re: Metabook

#103

Post by bryanrasmussen »

joshspankit wrote: post #102
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, sounds like a thing programmers believe about names: that you can tell when one is fictional or real.

The same company that ships your Oculus to your door is the same company that you log in with (and probably the same one that has your info from scraping someone else’s contact list) Very easy to tell that your “real” name does not match your CC or your home address.

sounds like a thing that programmers believe about people living at an address never buying presents for anyone else?

Re: Metabook

#104

Post by joshspankit »

bryanrasmussen wrote: post #103
joshspankit wrote: post #102

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The same company that ships your Oculus to your door is the same company that you log in with (and probably the same one that has your info from scraping someone else’s contact list) Very easy to tell that your “real” name does not match your CC or your home address.

sounds like a thing that programmers believe about people living at an address never buying presents for anyone else?

1. All it takes is one single suspicion for FB to shut down your account and ask for your ID. That can be as simple as someone putting in a report that you might not be using your real name. (Speaking from experience)

2. CC and address are the tip of the iceberg of data that FB has. The content of all messages you send on Messenger or IG (including any time your name was used), data from a bunch of other apps on your phone including IP, your other usernames, your photos and files, locations you travel to, etc. Possibly voice to text stored of anything you’ve ever said while in the Oculus and almost definitely anything you’ve ever said to anyone else through the Oculus, the way you walk, and a hundred other data points that are slurped up in real time any chance they get.

3. There’s almost no option to get your stuff back if banned. The longer you use a Quest the riskier this gets. Every dollar spent on games? Gone. Friend list? Gone. Friends? Gone if you never got external contact info.

It’s easy to pretend you can get lost in the crowd and get away with it, and for some people maybe that’s true, but the data they have on you grows by the day...

Re: Metabook

#105

Post by fomine3 »

joshspankit wrote: post #102
bryanrasmussen wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, sounds like a thing programmers believe about names: that you can tell when one is fictional or real.

The same company that ships your Oculus to your door is the same company that you log in with (and probably the same one that has your info from scraping someone else’s contact list) Very easy to tell that your “real” name does not match your CC or your home address.

> The same company that ships your Oculus to your door is the same company that you log in with

Don't you know other retailers?

Re: Metabook

#106

Post by fomine3 »

josephwegner wrote: post #69
tmikaeld wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you registered with a fictional name and not your real name, that will get you banned. And also if you use a picture of a pet or cartoon avatar..

It was my real name, real email. But I never even got to the point of uploading a picture. I did use a real picture for the appeal!

The launch of Quest 2 is during US president election. It was maybe the worst time to create FB account because they will aggressively suspend fake accounts. I heard dozens of case that account suspended.

Re: Metabook

#107

Post by fomine3 »

Smithalicious wrote: post #38

This undifferentiated torrent of anger is diluting the message. I am not naive so I also expect the zuckerverse to be a laughingstock at best and very sinister at worst, but let them actually build it first . By being so critical before it even exist you are only sending the message "we will hate it irrespective of what it actually is because we hold a grudge". Furthermore I think the "metaberg is a nefarious spy" me…

I'm disappointed to Niantic about second point. https://nianticlabs.com/blog/real-world-metaverse/

Re: Metabook

#108

Post by cradcore »

fsflover wrote: post #80

I wish this website did not recommend another walled garden, Signal, and recommended Matrix instead. That would be in line with other recommendations of federated platforms.

I was under the impression that Signal is open source and E2E, was I incorrect? If not, how is it a walled garden?

Re: Metabook

#109

Post by tluyben2 »

josephwegner wrote: post #45

Funny story about my Metaverse experience... I assume this will be an unusual opinion, but I'm actually very excited about Metaverse. I probably would not have chosen Facebook as the stewards of the first big VR-world, but I've been waiting a long time for some big co to make an investment in this direction. I think a (little m) metaverse is the obvious evolution for VR and could become ubiquitous. I left Facebook ab…

The worrying part is that you cannot appeal. That 'AI' bans seemingly random is known, but you should be able to appeal that in a sane world.

Re: Metabook

#110

Post by fsflover »

cradcore wrote: post #108
fsflover wrote: post #80

I wish this website did not recommend another walled garden, Signal, and recommended Matrix instead. That would be in line with other recommendations of federated platforms.

I was under the impression that Signal is open source and E2E, was I incorrect? If not, how is it a walled garden?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106455
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