The entire city of #Yellowknife is being evacuated. This is unprecedented and terrifying.
And thousands of citizens aren’t aware because Meta continues to block news in the country.
This is what happens when citizens are convinced to use an American multinational corporation as their community’s primary communications channel — a corporation that couldn’t give two shits about anything except its “fiduciary duty” to shareholders.
@JustinLachance but since that requires politicans to actually have a spine and ve principled, it's up to the individual to act accordingly and boycott them just like one would boycott a North Korean (regine controlled!) Restaurant or some shitty ultra - "fast fashion" label that manages to run sweatshops so inhumane that they manage to break labour regulations in Bangladesh & "P.R." China...
For anyone who think that people can switch #instance if they don't agree with their moderation policies, no, the average person doesn't think further than picking a random #instance with large enough userbase and go, the changing instance feature is too confusing to them (also the whole #federation or instance things).
Cryptography is a tool for turning a whole swathe of problems into key management problems. Key management problems are way harder than (virtually all) cryptographers think.
The problem isn't #Cryptography, but the fact that #TechIlliterates are allowed to use #tech and that leads to the digital equivalent of 12 year olds driving gasoline tankers with neither license nor permit nor experience.