It’s honest. You can trust Ljdawson with your lemmy data, I do, but that’s the nature of closed source.
I don’t think the warning needs to be that big though heh.
Makes sense to be on that site, since a lot of Lemmy users are probably interested at least in part due to the FOSS nature of it. Maybe it doesn’t need to be phrased as a “warning” though, more just as an FYI. Seems like it could scare people away thinking it’s a data harvesting tool, but such is life.
yea it would be better if they were just marked as either open or closed
There’s only two reasons to own something:
- To fuck someone over with it, or,
- To avoid being fucked by someone else with it.
It is a warning and I think they’re being pretty gentle with this needlessly proprietary bullshit
That’s a very black and white way to look at the world but you do you.
“Proprietary software is bad” should be as controversial as “murder is bad”
How does my toothbrush fuck anyone over?
When the companies colluded to price fix, you get fucked for not having stockpiled
It is logical. With open source software, the source code is out there for everyone to see how user data is being handled. But with closed source, you can’t, it’s a black box, so you have to trust the developer on how user data is handled.
I mean yeah, it’s a closed source app. The most that could possibly be collected is your IP alongside browsing habits. Your ISP already does that and definitely doesn’t care who gets it, so anyone who is concerned already uses a VPN.
You can collect a helluvalot more than that. Take a look at Threads’ permissions. You can collect just heaps of user data if you’d like.
Agreed, certainly possible, but I haven’t personally granted Sync permissions to anything except notifications.
So should you have that comment on every instance that you don’t own? Because whatever instance you join can collect all that information too even if the software is open source. A site owner can trawl the database and get all your private info that you supply too.
The site owner could just modify the source code they run too. It’s not like, as a user, I can prove the server is running the same code that I can see in the public repo.
