Store them on a LUKS encrypted thumb drive what a crazy long pass phrase that you only ever mount on an airgapped computer running a live distirbution. Clone the drive and store it in a variety of geographical locations.
i don't get it. is the fact that somebody misspelled a recently-coined nonsense-word product name/trademark an indication that the broader points are invalid?
Everyone called us paranoid nerds and laughed at our concerns. We spent 20 years trying to tell the people we care about how to be safe and they didn't listen because the tech is ugly, with rough edges, and doesn't have rage bait and trillions of dollars of ad-tech money supporting it. I personally stopped advocating as loudly because I realized that it would take much, much more pain for regular people to get out of their comfort stupors and start giving a shit. Meanwhile, p2p tech slowly progresses in the shadows where the mainstream can't see it, can't support it, and doesn't care.
The best time for advocacy is when people get burned. It's not a matter of if, but when. People learn through pain.
New billionaire owner takes over your favorite microblogging platform? Pain. Your clubhouse has been destroyed. You suddenly realize you didn't own anything.
New billionaire owner decides they don't like the topics you talk about and bans you? Pain. Your ability to express yourself and communicate and make connections with like-minded people has been destroyed. You suddenly realize that you actually need to get permission to talk to the people you want to talk to.
Massive data leak that includes your intimate personal information, photos and videos? Pain. Your privacy and personal life have been irrevocably violated. You suddenly realize that you don't control any of your own private information, and it actually isn't safe out there in those clouds. Even your most intimate whispers are recorded forever and will eventually be listened to by strangers or published on the cover of the New York Times.
The list of reasons to get the fuck off these corporate, centralized apps is growing every day.
I'm even more demoralized than you, as I feel the problem with "the best time for advocacy is when people get burned" only manages to convert a handful of people and then a month later more new people have entered the system to replace them who know nothing about this and will adamantly claim that such a problem is impossible until it happens personally to them, which takes years and years, at which point the same thing repeats.
I understand the feeling of demoralization, but converting a handful of people is better than converting no one. Those people are now safer because of you, and that's something to be proud of.
I make it a point to retry foods I "don't like" at least once a year to confirm if I still don't like them. More often than not, that experience alone gets me to like the thing. Liking things is more fun than not liking things. Why wouldn't I want to move as many things as I can in my life from the dislike bucket to the like bucket?
To be honest, for any given thing, liking or disliking it seems pretty inconsequential. Ideally, you would like the things you can't avoid, and dislike the things you can't get. Everything else doesn't really matter too much.
