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Strypey<a href="https://mastodon.social/@dmian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dmian</a> > I’ve finished migrating my active <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GitHub</a> repos to CodebergEvery project that leaves GritHub for good is another measurable dent in the network effects of an enshittified, proprietary platform. Now owned by one of the oldest <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> corporations, who were the earliest enemies of groups working for people's software rights and freedoms.(1/2)<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/NotAllHeroesWearCapes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NotAllHeroesWearCapes</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/CodeForges" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CodeForges</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GitHub</a>

StrypeyAnyone who encounters me here regularly, or has read my writing, will have noticed me using variations of the neologism "<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a>". This recent piece by <a href="https://phpc.social/@kboyd" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@kboyd</a> sums up exactly what I mean by this term;<a href="https://whateverthing.com/blog/2025/07/20/the-future-is-dumb/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://whateverthing.com/blog/2025/07/20/the-future-is-dumb/</a>

StrypeyWell, I finally got around to evaluating the <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ManageMyHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ManageMyHealth</a> portal;<a href="https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://managemyhealth.co.nz/about-us/</a>When my GP suggested I sign up with it, I presumed it was a public service offered by Te Whatu Ora, like My Health Record;<a href="https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/health-services-and-programmes/digital-health/my-health-record</a>So what do I think of Manage My Health? Not impressed. This is a privately-owned, for-profit digital platform, that I can't be certain isn't <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> patients who sign up with it.(1/?)<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicService</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PublicHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PublicHealth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/HealthPortals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HealthPortals</a>

Strypey"When people started calling my personal mobile number with questions about a voluntary organisation I'm involved with, I was confused: we weren't sharing that number. It turns out that Google had decided to take the number I used to verify my identity for Google Business some years prior and start putting it in Google Search results. WTF, Google?"<a href="https://m.danq.me/@dan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dan</a>, 2025<a href="https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://danq.me/2025/05/21/google-shared-my-phone-number/</a><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PrivacyFails" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PrivacyFails</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Google</a>

Strypey(1/2)In case anyone is looking for evidence of why the 'we value your privacy' promises of proprietary platforms are inherently empty, and can't be trusted ..."Meta servers download every shared file in Facebook Messenger and Instagram DM in full—even if it’s gigabytes in size ... Meta insisted it wasn’t a bug. When we published videos demonstrating the issue, they asked YouTube to take them down."<a href="https://mastodon.social/@mysk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@mysk</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@mysk/114859726176255816" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://mastodon.social/@mysk/114859726176255816</a><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Meta" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Meta</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/InstaGram" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#InstaGram</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/YouTube" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#YouTube</a><a href="https://eupolicy.social/@1br0wn" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@1br0wn</a>

StrypeyI've hit the final season of Parks and Rec, first broadcast in 2015. It features an unsubtle parody of DataFarming tech corporations, in the form of Gryzzl;<a href="https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Gryzzl" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://parksandrecreation.fandom.com/wiki/Gryzzl</a>Right now it's feeling like an artifact of a simpler time.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TV" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TV</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/comedy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#comedy</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ParksAndRec" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ParksAndRec</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Gryzzl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Gryzzl</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a>

StrypeyIn the classic H.G. Wells novel The Time Machine, the time-hopping protagonist meets the Eloi, who live in a state of childish innocence. Everything they need is provided by invisible machinery. Maintained by the subterranean Morlocks, who eat the Eloi like farmed animals.This is a wonderful metaphor for what hyperscale datacentres turned much of the net into.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SciFi</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/HGWells" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HGWells</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TimeTravel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TimeTravel</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/TheTimeMachine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TheTimeMachine</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a>

Strypey"WhatsApp could share user data with its parent company, including a user’s phone number, device identifiers, interaction with other users, payment data, cookies, IP address, browser details, mobile network, time zone, and language. In reality, data sharing between WhatsApp and Facebook had started in 2016. The difference in 2021 was that users could no longer opt out ..."<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/ToussaintNothias" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ToussaintNothias</a>, 2022<a href="https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/how-to-fight-digital-colonialism/</a><a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DigitalColonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DigitalColonialism</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/FaceBook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FaceBook</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/WhatSapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WhatSapp</a>

Strypey<a href="https://hachyderm.io/@joeyh" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@joeyh</a> > The latest pack of lies from MozillaOther things that make this disappointing;* no support for Reader Mode without JavaScript on Firefox-based mobile browser * cookies * rejecting cookies took me to an authentication refused pageIn other words, nonconsensual DataFarming. Mozilla organisation is totally betraying the most fundamental values of supporting user freedoms, and needs a total bottom-up revolution.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/Mozilla" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Mozilla</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a>

Strypey(1/2)<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@ensslen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ensslen</a> > in any transaction that isn't optional, they already know who you are. So either you're consenting or you're not providing informationThe information being provided is in the nature of metadata; for a start, what you bought, where, when, and how you paid. AFAIK DataFarming companies regularly buy this data from banks and other companies payments, and from vendors, and it gets added to the massive dossiers these corporations have on us.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a>

Strypey<a href="https://mastodon.social/@Sable_Shade" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@Sable_Shade</a> > What about gurgle and its products?Or Meta, scAmazon, grApple or BorgSoft? MuskCorp in general. Every one of these DataFarmers is socially and politically harmful in dozens of ways, leading to injury and death. Giving them money makes one complicit in that.The only thing giving SubStack a commission on your subscriptions makes you complicit in, is running a nonpartisan open publishing platform. Sorry but I'm fine with that.<a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/SubStack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SubStack</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/DataFarming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DataFarming</a> <a href="https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/tags/PlatformEthics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PlatformEthics</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dangillmor</a>

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