The rise of Mastodon has made me so much more aware of government services requiring us to use private companies’ systems to communicate with them and access services.
Sitting on a Dutch train just now I was shown on a screen “feeling unsafe in the train? Contact us via WhatsApp”.
What if I don’t use WhatsApp? (I do, but I wish I didn’t have to) I’m forced to share my data with Meta to use it.
Public systems should not require use of private services.
#NS #Netherlands #FOSS #privacy
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JuTaRo :emacs: ☕
Als Antwort auf Brendan Jones • • •but what is the solution? Mastodon is still not nearly as popular as WhatsApp, and it’s also not real time communication.
I get the point and I agree with it, I wonder if a good solution is out there.
Jaddy
Als Antwort auf JuTaRo :emacs: ☕ • •@JuTaRo :emacs: ☕
SMS? Webchat?
@Brendan Jones