• TheEntity@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Sadly look at email. Technically you can host it yourself but if you’re not one of the 15 or so big providers, good luck not being marked as spam before you even do anything.

    The real problem is with the oligarchy controlling everything, service or protocol. This is why Threads was/is dangerous.

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      2 days ago

      And they’ve been systematically shutting down anonymous email services.

      Load up Brave with a tor connection, and try to sign up for anonymous email. When they can’t track you reliably, even the “anonymous” services require a confirmation email or phone number.

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        2 days ago

        Man I don’t want a future where we doxx ourselves to just be on a PC. Its insane that parents think real ID for gaming is a good idea. Linux might be the only way to escape any of this in the near future.

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          2 days ago

          They pretend it’s to protect us from illegal activity, but it’s really to protect them from whistleblowers.

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            1 day ago

            That’s not entirely true. The push for KYC came because spam started going crazy. You have no clue how bad spam is right now. And believe me, you don’t know. Take the worst case scenario you can think of, and multiply that by 100, and that starts to describe the state of spam emails for the past decade.