Here’s a non-paywalled link to an article published in the Washington Post a few days ago. It’s great to see this kind of thing getting some mainstream attention. Young children have not made an informed decision about whether they want their photos posted online.
I recently found out about Circles and was hoping to migrate friends and family to it, but it’s just too much of a learning curve to get things set up.
That looks cool, I hadn’t heard of Circles before. I want to check it out now. I’m curious if it somehow keeps your data private from the server owner. That feels like the missing feature in most federated, privacy-focused social networks.
Side note: looks like it’s made by Futo; I hadn’t realized they were working on something like that. I’ve been using another one of their apps, Grayjay for almost all of my mobile Youtube viewing lately. It works great.
If it is made by anyone associated with Grayjay then I’m out
I have not posted a single photo of my kids on any platform for this reason. My wife on the other hand thinks I’m overly paranoid, so thanks to her, Zuck has a ton of photos of them…
I use 23Snaps. Gated social sharing among your contacts.
Yes, closed-source, unencrypted and hosted by a party you can “trust”. Anyone can write that they are a parent and care for your privacy.
