#ptio — Public Fediverse posts

@joel @atoponce Now it looks like Burung Hantu has deleted the #PTIO bug tracker. That’s quite revolting because it was rich with information. Those bug reports were a good way to see the harms & pitfalls of the tools that #PrivacyTools endorses. It also hilighted PTIO’s blatant disregard for accuracy and integrity.

@celia @klaatu @dsfgs Projects that exist for the purpose of privacy and #MACFANG avoidance (e.g. #PTIO, #PRISMbreak) have chosen #Github and #Gitlab.com for their own projects, and this I find most revolting: https://lemmy.ml/post/35452

@panina I abandoned #Wire because it got blocked in China and my VPN service became so unreliable it was effectively useless. But when #PTIO delisted them for setting up a US shell company to receive money from venture capitalists, and I saw them deprioritize work on federation, that was the final nail. Using Riot now and pretty happy with it. It bothers me that New Vector are hoovering up venture capital, but at least Matrix is a federated system with a documented protocol.
@rugk @sir

@aktivismoEstasMiaLuo
Coming back to #PTIO, their presence on Reddit is similarly strategic. Their goal is to:

a) make their autonomous tools (website, Discourse forum etc) more discoverable to the huge pool of users who are already on Reddit

b) piggyback on the SEO of Reddit and it's privileged place in search engine results

With the same ultimate goal as you, to help users find privacy-respecting replacements for #DataFarms like Reddit.
@cowan @jcgruenhage

Dear #privacytoolsio community, after quite a bit of work, #ptio now has a darkmode on the website thanks to the ongoing efforts of our valued team member Dawid Potocki.

To test it out, just go to privacytools.io and click the theme button in the top left corner :)

As a specific example, there's a fascinating discussion going on in the #PrivacyTools.io GH issues about to what degree #PTIO ought to engage with the #DataFarms. I've dealt with the same strategic questions many times in other projects like #CC and the #NZ #PirateParty. We want to model best practice (use #FreeCode, federated systems etc) but there's no point preaching to the choir. The people we need to reach are the ones most engaged with the existing, centralized systems. (2/2)
@bob @alexl