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  • Nope, steht tatsächlich genau so in der DSGVO (Art. 6 Abs. 1f)

    die Verarbeitung ist zur Wahrung der berechtigten Interessen des Verantwortlichen oder eines Dritten erforderlich, sofern nicht die Interessen oder Grundrechte und Grundfreiheiten der betroffenen Person, die den Schutz personenbezogener Daten erfordern, überwiegen, insbesondere dann, wenn es sich bei der betroffenen Person um ein Kind handelt.

    Ausdenken darf man sich als Firma diese Interessen auch nicht einfach so. Es gibt dazu einen Abschnitt im Anhang der DSGVO, der das genauer erläutert. Man muss auf jeden Fall genau begründen können, warum ein berechtigtes Interesse vorliegt. Im Grunde sollen unter diesen Begriff alle Datenverarbeitungen, die nicht für den bestimmten Zweck (für den du als User den Service benutzt) gebraucht werden, aber trotzdem für die Aufrechterhaltung des Services notwendig sind. Trotzdem gibt es keine Themenbegrenzung, weshalb das, was Firmen als berechtigtes Interesse bezeichhnen, oft sehr willkürlich erschient. Ich kenne von meiner Arbeit z.B. folgende Dinge, die darunter fallen können:

    • IT-Sicherheit (z.B. das Lokalisieren von IP-Adressen gegen Spam/DDoS )
    • Vermeidung von Betrug (z.B. durch Weitergabe von Kundendaten an die Schufa)
    • “Direktmarketing” (d.h. Adresssammlung fürs Zuschicken von postalischer nicht-personalisierter Werbung)







  • Very insightful look into the mechanisms of minimalist design and their shortcomings.

    Minimalism as a design trend dates back to the beginning of the last century, but you might have noticed that companies have extensively used minimalist principles in their product design in the past few years. Apple is especially known for this, but you see it everywhere nowadays. Cars, fridges, TVs… they are all stripped of any extravagant design features: fewer buttons, no ornaments, single colors, and so on. Even if you are not designer, you have probably noticed that in some way.





  • Matrix is also decentralized/federated, has encryption integrated into the protocol and enjoys a broad adoption and public support. It also has pretty good integration of bots and even other message protocol services like IRC via “bridges”. The chat clients are pretty good too; Element is pretty much available for every platform but there’s other one’s which are more focussed on Desktop or mobile usage, depending on how you primarily use it.





  • I’m pretty sure there is no particular reason why it’s done this way. It’s just the easiest method to coomunicate upvotes across different servers. There are already a lot of ideas for doing it differently or more efficient (e.g. vote aggregation) but that requires a more sophisticated architecture:

    • Vote aggregation also makes faking votes much more efficient and requires different detection methods. Of course, a spam server can also invent users or votes but it’s a bit more complicated.
    • Aggregation in any form can be hard to implement because it should be flexible enough to reduce load but not increase delay or make tracking a consistent state even harder. Finding the right configuration will be difficult and go through a lot of trial and error. Should be easier though now that more people are working on the code.
    • Keep in mind that Lemmy should also be able to communicate with other services across the Fediverse like Mastodon via ActivityPub. I’m not sure if there is something in the standard for message aggregation yet. It’s definitely being discussed because Mastodon, Pixelfed and Peertube all have or went thorugh the same growth problems as Lemmy in terms of scaling, spam and security concerns. If there’s a good solution it will likely come through the AP standard.