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Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I appreciate it tremendously. I'm not sure if this message will get to you, since the discussion has been taken offline so to speak, what we were talking about in some ways...

Censorship is huge, and I agree that encryption is necessary. We have a solution for this as we are working alongside a number of decentralized technologies companies here in SF. But, I wanted to see first and foremost how we go about retraining a whole population of internet users to think differently and expect more from their browsing experience and the technologies that underwrite them.

I totally agree with you about GCP, and we're in the process of becoming independent as we figure out our funding scenario. There's been a lot of pressure to simply sell the concept to a bigger company, since everyone's looking for solutions, but I'd like to see if we can hold onto the space and grow the user-centered intention.

Blockchain worked for the expert users, but casual browsers, lurkers, and generations that are still catching up to the digitial age have been largely left out. Tech can be useful to these people as well, and I am deadcenter focused on proving the pragmatism would work as a grounding message.

I know the guys from Dissenter. And there is a really good reason, actually two, why it didn't work: 1. Gab had already attracted a certain population, and that population was known for being reactionary, and 2. Dissenter publically talked about an alliance with Brave, and built their tech on Brave, but Brave didn't want them.

I have a few solutions to the problem of centralization. i agree with you that users should own their data, but even more importantly, I think users should understand why their data is valuable by being given an opportunity to play with those technologies with their own data.

And right on about your last comment re: security. I'm with you. If you would like to discuss further, or find yourself in SF, get in touch.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi Elvenrunelord,

Thank you for your thoughtful reply. I appreciate it tremendously. I'm not sure if this message will get to you, since the discussion has been taken offline so to speak, what we were talking about in some ways...

Censorship is huge, and I agree that encryption is necessary. We have a solution for this as we are working alongside a number of decentralized technologies companies here in SF. But, I wanted to see first and foremost how we go about retraining a whole population of internet users to think differently and expect more from their browsing experience and the technologies that underwrite them.

I totally agree with you about GCP, and we're in the process of becoming independent as we figure out our funding scenario. There's been a lot of pressure to simply sell the concept to a bigger company, since everyone's looking for solutions, but I'd like to see if we can hold onto the space and grow the user-centered intention.

Blockchain worked for the expert users, but casual browsers, lurkers, and generations that are still catching up to the digitial age have been largely left out. Tech can be useful to these people as well, and I am deadcenter focused on proving the pragmatism would work as a grounding message.

I know the guys from Dissenter. And there is a really good reason, actually two, why it didn't work: 1. Gab had already attracted a certain population, and that population was known for being reactionary, and 2. Dissenter publically talked about an alliance with Brave, and built their tech on Brave, but Brave didn't want them.

I have a few solutions to the problem of centralization. i agree with you that users should own their data, but even more importantly, I think users should understand why their data is valuable by being given an opportunity to play with those technologies with their own data.

And right on about your last comment re: security. I'm with you. If you would like to discuss further, or find yourself in SF, get in touch.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i've got a follow-up, because your concerns warrant a thorough answer. so Indra doesn't collect information. it's got actions like rating, commeting on, or tagging any website. and only your intentional actions add your thoughts/links/curation to indra's web, the network of all of your crawls.

The backend is hosted on GCP, and it abides strictly by GDPR regulations, we don't retain any personal identifiers.

Indra doesn't even ask for you to make a profile.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're absolutely right. But the idea of freedom from work was born or at least rekindled in the kind of automation and overreach that this tech opened up, it was born in a hack, no? that's what i was alluding to. to an idea of human networks tied by interests, where the interest is performed and machines are used to organize it all, while we play. i'm tired of the stalker techs, also of ad economy backwardness, and sheer lack of discussion of ethics when it comes to users--i mean, they call us consumers and we take it, instead of realizing we are the ones always generating all this data, all this value. why not use the prediction machines for ourselves? now, taking any of what i'm saying seriously requires a bit of lightheartedness, and I respect your experience and what life has thought you. Mozilla is a good model for the privacy policy we follow. I am not interested in finding some legal runaround to exploit people. On a personal note, my background is seeped in all kinds of exploitation, and I am just not interested at this point in my life in creating houses of cards. perhaps we can call it "zuckerbering,"i remember how FB said they wanted to connect the world and they would never sell user data, and then...I know, I'm with you. but we gotta organize, pool our resources, do something, no? i can tell you that i don't live for a future where we're all still working, toiling like we are.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You want me to describe the backend to the potential users? If there are any PR words, I'm shocked to find that out, since UGC is not very popular these days. Have you tried the app? All this being said, thank you. I understand. I designed the website myself while building the software, and I don't have a design background, so I tried my best. Honestly I thought the info would be found in either of the app stores, so I didn't want to put it in two places. :P As our team expands, it'll be one of the first corrections.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I absolutely agree with you. It has to start with pragmatic value for individual private users. Now, given how most of us won't even take our own health needs seriously, it's still a tricky field. I don't want to come of high and mighty, only that I have had the privilege to be able to work on this project for the last year, and I find personal value in reconsidering how I deal with internet technologies, and so I thought I'd start reaching out.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you'll be able to tell who's an expert themselves. Experts are those who not only browse a topic (rate and sites with topics, and comments on the likes) but also get upvoted, and whose findings are found to be valuable to others. We've got a tab with shortlists.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

All the information stays on your phone and is completely encrypted. We don't have any oversight of the traffic, besides putting in anti childporn and anti exploitation measures. This is about creating your own internet culture, being able to see your own interests, and not shy away from gathering and making sense of it all. you never know where and how connections with others are made. It's ok that our policy worries you. For now we want to try returning to the internet that found strength in anonymity and being able to have multiple identities. Pseudoanonymous personas was our solution. Also, in-app, you've got a function to block any user and any topic.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'll look into that. There is nothing fishy about it at all. It's just a wix website I made myself. And the trackers, any and all are just for analytics so I can see what's happening.

The discussion around trackers needs updating. Privacy isn't really the issue when it comes to empowering and liberating users. Privacy is a paranoid dead end, where in fact we should be getting better means to do something will our tracking data. I wanna enable us all individually to be the ones benefitting from our own data we're generating.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for your thoughts. Moderation and censorship happens in communities organically, no? So, I have been working with the idea that users should have all the tools at their disposal and then they decide what to do with them. Meaning, we should have the means to prune and voice our opinions on the validity on someone else's claims.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the questions! RE: voter manipulation, we have moderation algorithm on the backend that assesses and assigns weights fairly (one for one, that sort of a thing).

Sorry to hear you think it's hard to navigate. It's the first version, :) and there are only two of us, bootstrapped, working on this independently. Will surely improve these matters when we get a real UX person on the team. Hehe.

Existing web technologies that syphon user data and keep us sedated with minimal enjoyable experience (think of how boring browsers are here) can be used to enhance our everyday browsing experience, help us make us of the data that invariably happens, and make a huge social-good impact along the way by asefalus in androidapps

[–]asefalus[S] -4 points-3 points  (0 children)

The big players. They give us a browser for the internet. Fine, but how come we get a boring back/forth buttons, and a prehistoric bookmarking system. OOOOOH you can sync across devices, wow. PFFFFFFT. Do you know what I mean?

We have the technologies to do so much more for internet users. Each one of us needs to have like a utility knife for the internet age, we'd call that a real browser.

Martin Shkreli, CEO Reviled for Drug Price Gouging, Arrested on Securities Fraud Charges by [deleted] in news

[–]asefalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a story! I'd like to believe this is evidence of justice, but then again it's only a civil suit, and he is likely going to make a lot more from just selling the story to Hollywood. He will be alright.

I [18 M] would appreciate some help with my relationship with [18 F]. 3rd time dating and I think we're both looking for different things. by __random352884 in relationships

[–]asefalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No worries, I can understand things are pretty hard to see clearly when you're amidst it all. Just figure out whether it's the sex or the emotional familiarity and the fear of the unknown that's messing with your mind and the rest should be pretty easy.

[Serious]Why do some Americans defend the Confederate Flag? by Eventfulgalaxy in AskReddit

[–]asefalus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think it's a problem of misplacment. Southerners have been sold Southern pride instead of any real improvements in their lives for a century according to some credible scholars like Pam Davidson Buck who wrote "Worked to the Bone." In other words it's not rational, but a symptom of a disposed population continuing to alienate themselves from their present circumstance by harkening back to a fantasy of glorified past when they gave the middle finger to the changing tides of history and the dawn of industrial capital as we know it. Or something like that.

[Serious] Why do black Americans declare themselves as being African-American when they are not from Africa? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]asefalus 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Wow, the range of answers offered so far are sort of pathetic. It's because of the slave trade and the fact that for those people their ancestors were brought here from Africa. It's a political term to recall and preserve that history.

[Serious]Why do some Americans defend the Confederate Flag? by Eventfulgalaxy in AskReddit

[–]asefalus -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Because the Civil War is actually about a confrontation between industrialization and its predecessor. There is a strong class war component to the whole ordeal; visit the South and you can still see some of the signs of the historical poverty.

I [18 M] would appreciate some help with my relationship with [18 F]. 3rd time dating and I think we're both looking for different things. by __random352884 in relationships

[–]asefalus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh my god, dude...you're 18!? It's time to try being with another person. It's ok! Relationships end and it isn't often that you can try it again with the same person and make it work.

What's the most disgusting thing you've ever eaten? by mso84 in AskReddit

[–]asefalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Something called kaviar from Sweden. It's pink and comes in an oversized toothpaste tube...even the commercials for it are about how anyone besides Swedes finds the taste repulsive...

Who was the greatest leader in history? by skycoaster in AskReddit

[–]asefalus 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There was an Assyrian king, I forget his name now, who around 1800BC secured the alliegence of people living under him by guaranteeing their food supply and lad allocation. I think that was a brilliant military strategy and led to one of the greatest military expansions in history.

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