"There is actually no difference: it has the design of a data collection silo
which, as mentioned in the blog post, is one of the two things that made mass
surveillance possible."
Well, there is one big difference: Leaving *diffusive* information is no
problem at all (even rms acknowledges this btw).
You're doing it in real life all the time.
It's no problem that I buy grocieries at the same conveniance store every day
and the shop owner already knows my face. I'm getting in trouble if that's
the same guy owning the surveillance cameras on the street, at the train
station etc... the trouble gets even bigger if he does the same thing for
everybody, which isn't possible in real life as much as in our digital world.
Now the question is: how do I choose my threshold for diffusive information?
In which case it is diffusive enough?
Please realize that if you consider telegram not to fit your criteria then
you shouldn't use this forum neither.
I can't see any difference between those two situations.
Why don't you demand that the forum should be hostet in a decentralized why,
scattered over the servers of many trisquel users?
That's the whole point of my argumentation: you reject one service but you
obviously don't realize that other things you do on a daily basis are
basically the same thing.
The owner of telegram servers can track my meta data on conversations with a
few people.
If i use google services, google knows 1) what I'm searching on the internet
2) my email conversations 3) what videos I watch 4) maybe even what products
I buy etc.
Now, you're obviously concerned of server owners (more precisely: companies)
being forced to release the data by law. That's the case when the state grabs
the data of telegram, grabs the data of my search engine etc. and combines
them to a huge dossier.
What basically happened was: they collected diffusive information and put
them together, something you might be able to fight with even deeper
decentralization.
But again, using a websearch (even duckduckgo), a normal email provider and
(i want to stress that once more) this forum are on the same level as using
telegram.
They all fit the criteria I personally set up for decentralization, but not
yours.
I think you have the right goal but i find it unreasonable that you condemn
telegram and not, let's say, duckduckgo and internet forums.
