devil's advocate: this will save the vast majority of user (which are completely tech illiterate) from loosing their most important data

lets be real, none of them will use a private or foss backup solution any time soon.

I'd rather not they loose their important family photos for that oh so horrible crime of offending my privacy nerd sensibilities

That's the point of the repuation system.

It's a very hard problem, I'll give you that.

What you need is, each instance and community collects reputation in the federation. then users posting on those instances can collect reputation on those. basically by not being banned or massively downvoted. Your reputation is weighted by the reputation of each you collected it from instance.

Each users identity is tied to some key that collects reputation, that you generate new identities from from for each instance/community/post. Like how some credit card services give you a new credit card number for each new website.

Admins don't know who you are, but they can see and verify your reputation.

Then instance/community admins can decide if they want a different weighting. For example, to completely disregard the reputation by some instance or make one you like 10x more important.

You could get an ordered list of posts or pseudonymous users based on the reputation. Untrustworthy users will glow like a christmas tree.

That would be one way to do it. It's hard to make it water tight, but any improvements would be better than the current fediworse.

It doesn't have to be.

You could keep the general structure and functioning while improving privacy.

For example, by obfuscating post history, anonymous posting or assigning a user pseudonym per instance/community, auto-deleting old posts/comments. All optional features of course. Let instances/communites decide which of these features they want.

Keep the structure of Lemmy with it's Reddit-like-ness and instances, but give users, instances and communities more control over data privacy.

Sure it's harder to implement, you need some minimal-knowledge reputation system, but there is nothing fundamental preventing that from being possible.

The nice thing about federation is that one instance/community can stay the same data-leaking privacy mess, if they so prefer. While others could operate analogous to 4-chan (or anything in between).

Lemmy is absolute garbage on privacy. I would love a private Lemmy with fine grained privacy controls.

so do things you hate now, so you can enjoy them in the future

what is a prophesh yonnels

I wish they would release cheapish cards with huge cheap VRAM for consumer AI. But I guess even the cheapest memory is too expensive for that.

BlackberryPi Flipper Zero with LoRa and a thermal camera (because why not) would be cool

Snapchat and Google Docs are the only two non-FOSS apps I can't shake off.

It would be cool to have a Snapchat clone based on Briar.

Google docs because I don't trust myself with my own data, I always end up delteting important documents cause I save them to random locations when cleaning house. Having it all in once place, with autosync, search and a nice powerful mobile interface is really convenient.

good, it lags the server

i don't understand discord's popularity at all. it's so annoying to use

it's called executive dysfunction