IPFS and Filecoin exist to solve this problem.
Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
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Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Slightly offtopic, but the sheer scale of the phenomenon you allude to - of screen-addled zombification - is really turbo-charging my own misanthropy. People staggering around, necks hunched, eyes down, all but glued to their miserable little toys. Everywhere, everyone, all the time. It's just pathetic . I guess I had hoped humans would have more self-control than this.
Stop viewing them in isolation and view them as a product of their environment. They weren't born with a phone in hand, someone gave it to them and someone created Tik Tok for them.
That's a fair argument. It's also unfalsifiable and based on an underlying personal worldview. Specifically (I would venture) an "us and them" view of things where history is determined by groups and power - a left-wing outlook, basically! I'm a bit of a liberal individualist by nature, I see personal responsibility and autonomy as a thing. I'm not sure how I'd go about deprogramming myself of this even if I wanted to. But it would help with the misanthropy, for sure.
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
The creator/consumer divide is still 90/10. Your example just doesn't matter.
If I don't create anything, and just consume creators, what do I need a personal data store for?
you just created a comment here.
also your government, your service providers and many other entities are creating data on your behalf
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#54IPFS and Filecoin exist to solve this problem. https://ipfs.tech https://filecoin.io
thought the same.
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#55Who has an incentive to provide a Solid server? Not big social media companies, who want the personal information that Solid attempts to withhold. I don't think anyone is prepared to offer a convenient, high quality Solid-based social media experience to everyone for free, because that costs a lot of money. And if you know anything about human nature, it will have to be convenient and completely free in order to have…
'that costs a lot of money'
price of intelligence is dropping day by day like it or not, sooner or later price incentives for someone to host such social media experience could become financially viable
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#56Among the first page and 2nd page (top 60) there is always atleast 1 post about how we're gonnna "take back the web" or make it back into some form of our 90s millenial nostalgia memories, self hosting, federated this or that, etc etc. Meanwhile - Nothing changes, everything generally gets worse and younger generations come into the world with no memories of the 90s internet or the world before mobile devices or surv…
Nothing changes because the ask is silly and disconnected from the reality of normal people's lives. So what happens if Google has all your data? To the best of my observations over the past 20 years: best in class services, cheap, paired with excellent security and data availability.
unless you travel to the 25% of the world they antagonize politically.
or unless you don’t comply quickly enough when they say “jump” and they unilaterally take away “your” gvoice number.
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#57If this takes off I fear big tech very quickly finding friends among those pushing for things like chat control, while potentially reevaluating some of its more consumer friendly "views" towards privacy. Very easy to undermine something when you start speaking of its potential to facilitate CSAM.
that is exactly what is going to happen, as more people become aware.
that's why we all need to exercise our rights and freedoms. I'm scared that if we fail to do this in next few years. And let the AI be used in similar ways like it has been used to create social media algorithms. Then we are all fucked!
Whoever owns your AI owns you, so it better be you who owns it!
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#58you store ur photos on fb same way you store your money at the bank and your code on github, its delegation of concerns, you can make same argument for literally anything....not using your own silicon, growing your own food, financing your own venture, owning your own land, etc etc.... maybe its more "secure" vs "less efficient" or some other tradeoff. and you have to get the right balance or take risks for optimal efficiency / profit/whatever your values are
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#59Among the first page and 2nd page (top 60) there is always atleast 1 post about how we're gonnna "take back the web" or make it back into some form of our 90s millenial nostalgia memories, self hosting, federated this or that, etc etc. Meanwhile - Nothing changes, everything generally gets worse and younger generations come into the world with no memories of the 90s internet or the world before mobile devices or surv…
Nothing changes because the ask is silly and disconnected from the reality of normal people's lives. So what happens if Google has all your data? To the best of my observations over the past 20 years: best in class services, cheap, paired with excellent security and data availability.
...while selling you crap you don't need because they follow you everywhere.
Re: Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is demonstrably not fantasy as the example case is a fully productionized network (Bluesky and the rest of AT-net) that’s having real-world impact to the point where it’s under threat from several authoritarian states.
It has? Don't get me wrong, I'm in the tech industry and generally more online then likely 95% of the population, but ime ... Nobody even knows what bluesky is? (They also don't know what X is, though they DO know what Twitter is) And even more niche products like mostodon, the fediverse altogether etc are entirely unknown to most of the tech industry too.
Sometimes tech leads the world, however unwillingly, to better outcomes.