Lfrith

I don't think it's good to use a work device for personal use. My thoughts is their hardware so anything used on there is their info.

Yeah, my thoughts were having people encouraged to add on information they know on top of public information is a gold mine for governments. Someone could opt out of social media and not even have a phone or computer, but now you could have citizens themselves creating profiles on their behalf and providing information on individuals like political leanings. People are just thinking dating because that is what the site is about.

But, my thoughts went to how a site could do the same for whether someone is legal or not, whether they are pro government or not, etc.

From just a privacy perspective having people freely share photos, videos, and info you may have never even uploaded to the internet and compiling a community driven profile despite not opening an account there is creepy.

It's fine if it's community driven profiling among members who chose to voluntarily create an account understanding the terms and conditions. Like if a social media called meowmeowbeans was created, and people who want that extra safety decided to only associate with people on meowmeowbeans and would tell people I only meet people who are on meowmeowbeans so make an account and get verified if you want to meet. If you won't then I want nothing to do with you.

I'd rather meowmeowbeans socially pressure people who want to associate with meowmeowbeans users have to voluntarily become meowmeowbeans verified as opposed to this form of information sharing that people haven't consented to and having pages dedicated to them that people are using to discuss them.

This is Lemmy after all and not instagram, TikTok, or Facebook where people are encouraged to share their personal information. And more tech leaning, so people are going to be less open to the idea of a database popping up encouraging people to contribute any photos, videos, and personal information on random individuals to create profile pages for people who never signed up. Whether it is big tech or individuals insisting data collection and making a public profile is for safety its going to be seen with skepticism.

Gender doesn't have to do with it, since there isn't a law exempting specific genders from this and a site encouraging people to add info to a profile could be made for any reason. Like a similar site being made where members are asked to share information about political ideology of individuals they know and to share stories and evidence.

That's data collection versus an active public profile.

As someone who's stayed away from creating accounts like Facebook the concept of being encouraged to share photos and real identities of people who haven't consented to being on the social media site is really creepy to me.

Its like some random social media account shows up and you never signed up but a profile for you has already been made and has all these photos you never even shared on there because someone chose to upload them in your place.

I'd rather people choose not to associate with people who don't have an account that has vetted on safety than be opted into something like this without choice.

Yeah, Mass Effect, Witcher, and Cyberpunk 2077 are just a few games among many that these groups would love to target and take down for giving lgbtq options. Could forsee a future where games have to start self censoring themselves to try to avoid demonetization. Best case scenario is they only censor in certain countries.

So those who think it is just attacking porn games and don't care because they play normal games will be in for a rude awakening if these groups get their way.

Interesting thing is when I got my iPad Pro and was looking into cases I saw comments of people finding their tablet bent slightly after use with how thin I was. So I made sure to go for one with rubberized edges so it didn't require force to put in or take out.

And I would have taken a thicker one to house a bigger battery and not have bending concerns.

And when it comes to phones I wish phones were as thick as the protruding camera bump so it is completely flush and flat. And get more battery life.

But, I'm probably unusual in wanting that.

I expected Apple to do rollable smartphones as opposed to foldable, since that approach seems crude.

Also becoming as thick as two phones when folded is not something that interests me. When it comes to concepts I've been more I intrigued by ones that roll out, but who knows how many years it'll take to not be fragile and be reliable.

I understand why a company and the people who run it want to be pieces of shit. I also don't give a shit about what they want.

I don't see mass amount of comments insulting you, but I do see you being unusually hostile from the get go as though wanting confrontation. So not surprising people aren't receptive to the tone in terms of voting, but all things considered not seeing toxic discourse in response.

So I don't know. I guess it might help to present things in a more calm manner? Unless that suggestion itself is what is considered toxic.

At that point only solution is for Steam to become their own payment processor, since I don't see any huge company choosing to lose money by abandoning mainstream methods of payment customers use.