[HN Gopher] The Opt Out Project
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The Opt Out Project
Author : WallyFunk
Score : 35 points
Date : 2023-06-09 20:23 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.optoutproject.net)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.optoutproject.net)
| Backing5890 wrote:
| I like the premise of the site but the "The Opt Out Way to Use
| Email" even mentioning using LastPass despite their multiple
| breaches makes me question this site.
| predictabl3 wrote:
| I want "noiwillnot.com" and have it be a very simple site, with a
| list of offenders, and a I pledge/declaration:
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| "No, I will host or join OSS communities on closed proprietary
| platforms. Never again. No, I will not join your Discord. No, I
| will not participate in your subreddit. No, I will not follow
| your project updates on Twitter."
|
| Matrix, Discourse, and Mastodon exist are are used very
| successfully by a number of high profile projects. They don't
| force me to use proprietary, inaccessible, insecure, Electron-
| ridden clients. They don't force me into draconian privacy
| policies. They don't force me to prop up VC-funded money pits
| that _will eventually come back around to extract anything they
| can_. They don 't treat the closed edges of their platforms as
| moats by which they can, ooh yeah, build a user base and then
| eventually hinder the experience in order to extract their
| deserved profits.
|
| These things matter but people are so short-sighted and forgetful
| that they just jump from proprietary platform (cough, password
| managers are another great example), and then inevitably have to
| jump ship again in N years. Maybe I'm the odd one, but I'd much
| rather invest a bit more upfront, and deal with UX growing pains,
| than keeping throwing my knowledge, time, overall investment into
| a pit that ends up burned by capitalism.
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