Em :official_verified:

Privacy Activist and Advocate. Security Passionate. Protector of Data. Tamer of Python. Lover of Encrypted Keys. Recycled Artist. Hardware Enthusiast. Fan of FOSS. Happy Mastodon Mentor to all newcomers!

Spending most days writing, reading, and talking about privacy.

Located in Canada 🇨🇦
(She/Her) 🏳️‍🌈

Currently: Looking for a new remote opportunity.
Previously: Activism & Outreach Lead and Journalist at @privacyguides

🔒 Privacy tips at: #TinyPrivacyTip
🐘 Mastodon tips at: #TinyMastodonTip

Other hashtags I talk about:
#DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #Security #Python #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource #NoAI

Secondary accounts at (do not contact me there):
🐘 infosec.space/@Em0nM4stodon
🐘 mastodon.social/@Em0nM4stodon

#nobridge #nobot #nobots #noai #noindex #nosearch #noarchive

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Last Notes

2026-06-04 21:45:54 UTC

Today, 37 years ago, was the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
Remember these events.
Remember these people who fought for freedom and democracy.
This is important 💛☂️
"On the 30th anniversary of the protests in 2019, the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote that 'autocratic and totalitarian regimes fear facts because they have built their power on unjust foundations' and he also wrote that memory is important: 'without it there is no such thing as a civilised society or nation' because 'our past is all we have.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
#TiananmenSquare #Democracy #JuneFourth

2026-05-20 23:48:39 UTC

I'm delighted to announce today that I have joined the Lockdown Systems collective! 🐢💚
We are working on amazing projects right now, many to be announced soon. If you want to get more information on our work, you can follow the collective here on Mastodon: @nprofile…6f6s
And if you want to support the work we do even more, we accept donations here :awesome: https://lockdown.systems/donate/
I look forward to contributing further to Lockdown Systems' projects, and continue working with this absolutely fantastic team! 🎉🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
#LockdownSystems

2026-05-19 05:34:05 UTC

These times are difficult for most of us.
But what gives you hope right now? 💚👀
#AskFedi #Hope

2026-05-14 17:40:23 UTC

I just emailed a strongly worded letter
to my government representative to oppose Bill C-22.
If you are Canadian, you should too: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli #CndPoli

2026-05-13 04:37:48 UTC

What is your favourite code editor that is:
1) light (feature-wise)
2) pretty (in a customizable way)
3) running on Linux :ablobcatbongokeyboard: 👀
#Linux #Programming #OpenSource

2026-05-13 04:29:40 UTC

Do not collect the data that you do not need.
Do not collect the data
that you do not need.
Do not collect
the data
that you
do not
need
.
#DataMinimization #Privacy #DigitalRights

2026-04-28 14:58:29 UTC

Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.
Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.
Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.
For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE

2026-04-25 15:13:12 UTC

Today is my Fediversary! :rainbowdance: ✨
I cannot tell you enough how much the Fediverse and Mastodon changed my life positively.
From the amazing community,
to a new connected social life free from big tech's authoritarianism, I will forever be grateful for what I found here 💚
If you want to give me a gift for my Fediversary, please send a donation to my incredible instance Infosec Exchange, generously administrated by @nprofile…l9z3
🎁 :em_rainbow: https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
On each of our Fediversary,
let's take a moment to appreciate all the people who kindly give their time to manage an instance for free, to do the hard work of moderation to protect us all, to contribute with code, documentation, art, and more. Without them, you and I wouldn't be here.
Thank you everyone for being part of this community :blobcatheart:
Long live the Fediverse! :blobcheer: :mastodon:
#Fediversary #Fediverse #Mastodon

2026-04-23 21:26:24 UTC

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@nprofile…wxce Have you used this solution yourself? How much control do you have on the data collected from visitors on WordPress?

2026-04-23 21:06:45 UTC

Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
Federates
Allows to collect donations
Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
#AskFedi #Blog #Blogging #OpenSource #Fediverse

2026-04-22 17:53:03 UTC

If you've been wondering why
I haven't published any new articles in a while,
Just a reminder that I actually wrote 25 short articles just in February! They were all published together with the launch of Privacy Guides' new Activism section in March.
They're short articles offering practical tips and resources.
You can find them all linked here, on the Privacy Activist Toolbox page 🧰👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/
#Privacy #Activism #DigitalRights

2026-04-21 18:23:25 UTC

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@nprofile…t20x Both! 💜

2026-04-21 14:00:18 UTC

You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.
Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.
Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
#Privacy #Activism #Tor #DigitalRights

2026-04-15 15:47:02 UTC

In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data,
But what about our responsibility to protect the data of others?
If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you.
To make privacy work, we need to develop a culture that normalizes caring for everyone's data, not just our own.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/
#Privacy #Consent #HumanRights

2026-04-12 17:50:53 UTC

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

2026-04-12 16:36:52 UTC

The horror of Age Verification is
arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦
Contact your federal MP and the office of the Prime Minister this week to tell them you strongly oppose the privacy-destroying and inefficient measure.
The time to push back is NOW: https://globalnews.ca/news/11797286/liberal-party-adopts-motion-social-media-ban-kids/
'Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.'
Shared educational resources with them on the dangers of Age Verification: https://www.eff.org/age
We do NOT want this nightmare in Canada. Fight back for your privacy rights! ✊🔒
#AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol

2026-04-08 14:56:26 UTC

If a human right is in the way of your "innovative" technology, the expected solution should be to modify your technology to respect this human right, not to reduce the protections to this human right.
Technology and innovation must be in service of humanity, not the other way around.
#HumanRights #DigitalRights #Privacy

2026-04-07 18:13:01 UTC

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@nprofile…2v9q Excellent, thank you! I need this too! 🙌

2026-04-06 16:52:26 UTC

"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"
From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/
"The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment.
'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release.
'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'"
#NoAI #Loneliness

2026-04-04 16:48:34 UTC

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@nprofile…2v9q :d20:

2026-04-02 01:38:40 UTC

Innovation without ethics is no innovation at all.
#NoAI

2026-03-28 11:54:41 UTC

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@nprofile…dla5 I don't mean anonymous. Anonymity and privacy are different concepts.
Of course, legal names and transaction information are necessary to collect for legal reasons. But, for example, facial prints aren't, copies of official ID by anyone else who isn't a bank aren't either, sharing this information to monetize it with commercial partners is entirely unnecessarily privacy-invasive.
There are many things that can make a payment processing solution more privacy-respectful, without being anonymous. Data minimization, and strict policies on access and sharing are key here.

2026-03-28 10:57:10 UTC

We need a solution to process international payments that isn't an American fintech company or cryptocurrency and is privacy-respectful like yesterday.
Please 🙏

2026-03-24 14:57:58 UTC

Are you using Signal to conduct job interviews and work meetings? :signal: 👀
If yes, what do you like about it?
If not, why not?
#Signal #Privacy #Security

2026-03-24 14:32:59 UTC

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@nprofile…40zt @nprofile…lknd This is infringing so many privacy laws...

2026-03-23 15:14:34 UTC

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@nprofile…ulx7 This is unbelievable. They literally cannot take no for an answer 🙄

2026-03-21 23:10:56 UTC

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@nprofile…h4nu Does this khajiit haz wares? I have coins.

2026-03-21 16:29:45 UTC

The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.
Some politicians have already stated this plainly.
This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.
This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.
This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.
This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.
This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.
Do not let them do this to us.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights

2026-03-21 16:09:18 UTC

First they ask for your date of birth,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your full name and location,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a copy of your passport,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your facial scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your fingerprints,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for your palm scan,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for a scan of your iris,
but later they claim it's not enough.
Then they ask for ...
#MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

2026-03-19 21:58:57 UTC

Today, I just bought a hardcover copy of The AI Con, written by @nprofile…8f3n and @nprofile…5876.
I'm so glad I heard about this book. I can't wait to start reading it! :blobcatreading:
#Bookstodon #Tech #NoAI #DigitalRights #HumanRights
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2026-03-14 17:19:56 UTC

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@nprofile…3d77 :valid:

2026-03-13 16:06:12 UTC

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@nprofile…60xv :heart_cyber:

2026-03-11 23:43:16 UTC

If you want to follow the new tips I wrote
for Privacy Guides' new Activism section here, you can follow the hashtag #PrivacyActivistToolbox 🧰✨
We are posting once a day about a new tip, until the end of the month.
#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Activism

2026-03-11 20:24:05 UTC

We need to push much harder against
Age Verification laws and law proposals.
Contact your local representatives NOW to tell them you firmly oppose these privacy-destroying laws that will harm democracy and civil liberties in unprecedented ways.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

2026-03-11 01:48:16 UTC

I have not updated my personal websites in 3 years, and now everything is outdated 🫣

2026-03-08 18:02:37 UTC

I'm going to sound biased here, but people should hire more women in tech.
Yes, I'm looking. Why do you ask? 👀
#InternationalWomenDay #WomenInTech

2026-03-08 17:10:51 UTC

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@nprofile…6vjc Thank you for this, it's a beautiful quote 💚

2026-03-08 16:20:13 UTC

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@nprofile…60xv
I'm a privacy specialist, researcher, and writer looking for a new opportunity as of today: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116194451395085142

2026-03-08 16:17:04 UTC

Bad news 😔💔
I am sad to announce today that unfortunately I will not be working with Privacy Guides anymore after the end of this month.
Good news! 🚨 :awesome:
I will be available for a new position or contract, starting in April!
I am looking for a position or contact for:
✊ Digital rights activist (with a specialty in privacy rights)
🔒 Privacy expert or consultant
:mastodon: Fediverse and Mastodon advocate
🙌 Managerial position
📰 Tech journalist
💻 Technical writer
💚 Or any other fitting positions
I am especially interested in working with nonprofit organisations, cooperatives, open-source projects, privacy-oriented software companies, or any other organisations working for the public good.
🇨🇦 Remote from Canada
:no_AI_logo: All the work I produce is guaranteed to be AI-free
Let me know if you hear of any good opportunities!
#FediHire #GetFediHired #Tech #Jobs

2026-03-07 16:03:24 UTC

What is your favourite Obsidian community plugin, and why do you find it helpful? :verifiedpurple: 👀
#Obsidian #Software #Writing

2026-03-06 19:36:35 UTC

I want to move in another dimension.
I bet the rent is cheaper there, too.

2026-03-06 16:36:40 UTC

A world without privacy is also a world without intimacy, without individuality, without diversity, and without democracy.
Certain politicians have clearly expressed they want a world without privacy.
We cannot let them have it passively. We must fight back for our rights. Now.
Or we will lose them.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism #AgeVerification

2026-03-04 17:57:36 UTC

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@nprofile…rh4q Thank you so much! I'm very glad you liked it! 💚

2026-03-03 17:04:13 UTC

Good News! 🚨👀
I am delighted to finally announce today what I've been working on in the past few weeks:
Privacy Guides' new Activism section! :awesome:
https://privacyguides.org/activism/
The Activism section offers a new way to empower the digital rights community. It will progressively grow with more tools to support the community in its privacy activism effort, both for individuals and organizations 💛
As Privacy Guides' new Activism & Outreach Lead, I will be working hard on developing this section even further in the coming weeks, adding many more tools to support our community.
I hope this can be a helpful resource for anyone who is ready to fight for privacy rights ✊🔒
#PrivacyGuides #Activism #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights

2026-02-28 17:07:18 UTC

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@nprofile…zsdu Awww adorable! 🥹 Thank you! :blobheartcat:

2026-02-28 17:04:31 UTC

I had a rough week. Send cats please :neocat_pleading:

2026-02-27 23:16:41 UTC

What a week

2026-02-25 22:42:19 UTC

Mass surveillance is incompatible with freedom and democracy.
Which one do you want to pick?
#Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance

2026-02-25 01:19:25 UTC

When people are not celebrating the small victories in the long battles for human rights we are fighting, I am terrified.
I am terrified of the worse threat of all to our movements: Giving up.
I am terrified that when people forget to celebrate their wins, they get so tired and discouraged that they give up the fight entirely. Discouragement leads to apathy. And apathy leads to defeat.
Please please, I implore you:
Take care of your mood :blobheartcat:
Celebrate the small wins 🎉
Let others some time to celebrate, even when victories are only partial :neocat_heart:
We need hope to survive and thrive 💚
#HumanRights #DigitalRights #Activism #Burnout

2026-02-24 21:43:19 UTC

YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉
Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights!
IT WORKS! ✊🔒
https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/
#Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin

2026-02-24 20:52:46 UTC

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@nprofile…lklx 😁

2026-02-24 20:30:46 UTC

The control of the computer is getting shifted from you, who bought the computer, to the seller of the computer.
This should not happen.
You should be angry about this.
You should refused to be controlled.
You should resist.

2026-02-22 20:18:10 UTC

Pseudonymity saves lives.
It is vital to healthy democracies.
#Privacy #Pseudonymity #HumanRights

2026-02-22 07:10:42 UTC

Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point.
It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship.
It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy.
It must not be accommodated.
It must be stopped.
#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights

2026-02-21 17:35:44 UTC

I'm not using any LLM or "AI" for anything that I write or draw. Never had, and never will.
I'm making this choice because:
• This technology was built by unethically stealing the hard work of millions without any consent or compensation.
• This technology has and is still constantly scraping data, including personal data, from people without their knowledge or consent, in complete disregard of the privacy laws we have to protect us.
• This technology unnecessarily uses vast amounts of energy in a world where using more energy sadly usually means more pollution.
• This technology is working on devaluating labor in order to enrich even more the already rich, aggravating poverty everywhere.
• This technology is misleadingly being sold as a solution to problems it cannot solve.
• This technology is supercharging disinformation and manipulation online, centralizing an incredible power of influence in the hands of a few controlling billionaires.
• This technology is increasingly being used by authoritarian governments in order to surveil and control the people.
• This technology atrophies our creativity and capability to think, as well as harming our social relationships.
• This technology makes my writing voice feel flat and boring. I'd rather learn to live with my human tipos.
• This technology...
#NoAI

2026-02-20 22:23:25 UTC

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@nprofile…gvek @nprofile…l9z3 👀

2026-02-20 20:08:40 UTC

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@nprofile…v6gd Well said

2026-02-20 17:35:56 UTC

Anyone who is about to complete, or already has completed, an age-verification or identity-verification process online should read this short article.
Especially if it's on LinkedIn or Discord.
"I Verified My LinkedIn Identity. Here's What I Actually Handed Over." by rogi
https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/
#Privacy #LinkedIn #Discord #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification #MassSurveillance

2026-02-20 15:35:16 UTC

Do not comply.
Do not share your ID or biometric data with abusive platforms requesting it. You have a choice to say no, complain, and leave.
This is an important act of resistance for the future of humanity.
This isn't just about privacy, this is also about safety, diversity, democracy, and human rights.
#Privacy #MassSurveillance #HumanRights #Fascism #AgeVerification #IdentityVerification

2026-02-19 21:26:11 UTC

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@nprofile…f539 Agreed. I am so thankful to Jerry for generously allowing us 11,000 characters here on Infosec Exchage 🥹 :blobheartcat:

2026-02-19 21:18:11 UTC

Character-count limitations on social media create an artificial struggle that shouldn't exist! Especially when it's limited to 300 characters 😫
There, I said it.
End rant.

2026-02-17 18:47:30 UTC

Surveillance glasses recording people without their knowledge and consent, and especially if they collect nonconsensual data using AI or facial recognition, need to be banned and illegal to sell everywhere.
Tell your local representatives they need to outlaw this harmful technology.
Privacy is a human right.
We need to defend it.
#NoAI #MassSurveillance #BanRayBan #Meta #CreepGlasses #Privacy

2026-02-13 20:33:06 UTC

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@nprofile…8ctv Yes, it does. People don't assume you are filming them when you are just wearing glasses. Most people with a rectangle pointed at them will suspect you might be filming them. The fact that it's disguised as glasses to record people without their knowledge matters a lot.

2026-02-13 20:30:03 UTC

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@nprofile…8ctv If you're filming people without their knowledge and consent (unless it's in the public interest like recording police work), this is still wrong and creepy.

2026-02-13 20:27:40 UTC

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@nprofile…8ctv Use your phone.

2026-02-13 20:25:19 UTC

If you own glasses that record people without their consent, we can't be friend, and please don't talk to me.
#Meta #RayBan #CreepGlasses #Consent #Privacy

2026-02-09 02:30:10 UTC

How did the Superb Owl end?
What did I miss? 👀
#SuperbOwl

2026-02-08 19:28:18 UTC

I'm tired.
I just want owls.
Especially superb owls.
:brdHornedOwl:

2026-02-08 19:11:45 UTC

🦉✨
#SuperbOwl

2026-02-08 18:52:10 UTC

I'm not going to waste my precious human time reading something that you didn't spend your precious human time writing.
I really don't care about the well-aligned randomly stolen words of a text-generating machine you are using for cheap marketing.
#NoAI

2026-02-08 18:43:07 UTC

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@nprofile…5dkz There is a way to mute someone's boosts without muting their original posts, for people who prefer that. People who don't like boost can simply use this mute-boost feature.
Personally, I greatly enjoy all of the boosts! And have discovered so many amazing content and people from other's boosts! :boost_ok: :ablobcatrainbow:

2026-02-05 17:35:02 UTC

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To the excited reply guys in my replies:
No, I'm not claiming that Mojeek doesn't use AI anywhere, I'm simply stating that when I search a term, the result page displays no AI answer to me by default, and it seems the AI-slop results are greatly deprioritized ("no AI pollution" in my results), compared to what I get on DuckDuckGo and Start Page (and would also get with Google and Bing, but I don't use these directly).
This is only a post about my own personal experience, it isn't a full review of the engine, obviously.
If you dig into the settings and find an AI feature you could enable and don't like that, you are free to not use it, and you really don't have to tell me about it (please don't).
If you want to research and write a full review of search engines, please do! And please do it outside of my replies, without tagging me.
For anyone who knows me, yes I dislike AI features a lot, and I don't enable any of them anywhere. I seem to be able to use Mojeek getting genuine informative results free from the AI plague, and I wanted to share this joy with you. Whenever AI is put in my face against my will (like with many other search engines and countless software do) doesn't mean I'm using it. I don't use AI, ever. But yes, it's everywhere around me, to my greatest sorrow.

2026-02-05 17:05:54 UTC

Reply Guy™️ replies started my day poorly. Now I keep typing angry replies in my Signal Note to Self 🤬

2026-02-04 01:55:31 UTC

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@nprofile…24zl A much better analogy!

2026-02-04 01:51:56 UTC

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@nprofile…24zl Not even, they use it to represent a "tool that your organization provides to overcome the challenge"

2026-02-04 01:46:40 UTC

I just saw a diagram using Lord of the Rings as an analogy, and describing "The Ring" as "a gift," and well I really don't know about that...
Maybe throw your gift in Mount Doom just to be on the safe side 😬
#LOTR

2026-01-27 17:27:52 UTC

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@nprofile…gu7x
I'm glad I had the chance to visit the United States when it was still open to tourists. Too bad it's closed now.

2026-01-25 22:42:22 UTC

Please stop using floating buttons on your websites!
It's hiding your content on small mobile phones and print-to-pdf 😭
#UI #UX

2026-01-25 20:44:14 UTC

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@nprofile…mcqv :1000:

2026-01-25 20:24:08 UTC

I despise how security updates are
bundled with feature updates.
Now we have to choose between getting malware from a random criminal gang or getting embedded malware from the tech company.
And honestly at this point, I'm not sure which is worse.
#Tech #Enshitification #NoAI

2026-01-25 16:58:22 UTC

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@nprofile…u8z9 @nprofile…f7wg Yeah I would absolutely love to see it, but I'm not holding my breath with the pro-big-corpo people we currently have in power.

2026-01-24 20:35:00 UTC

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@nprofile…gx8y Oh what? Really? I only edited once 😬

2026-01-24 07:03:49 UTC

Recipes are just eatable food memes.

2026-01-21 19:39:48 UTC

Stay vigilant about your online communities.
If each time someone engages their post is received with hostility or negative feedback, they will soon disengage and leave.
This behaviour might be done on purpose to chase some marginalized people away, or might be done subconsciously from internalized biases or systemic discrimination.
Sadly, the result is the same.
If you are part of a privileged group, observe how marginalized people are being replied to in your online communities, and use your privilege to intervene when necessary.
Sometimes, just showing a little support or positive feedback can make a significant difference to keep your communities diverse, inclusive, and happy.

2026-01-19 18:32:29 UTC

I used to be excited about new tech and new gadgets. Now I'm just scared it's going to be more surveillance and more AI shenanigans.
long sigh
#Tech #NoAI

2026-01-17 17:59:57 UTC

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@nprofile…lg8y I wrote this 1 year ago so, alas, it seems everything is on schedule :blobcatverysad:

2026-01-17 17:20:56 UTC

AI assistants are the archnemesis
of data privacy.
Because AI models are inherent
data collectors.
They rely on large data collection for training, improvement, operation, and customization.
More often than not, this data is collected without clear and informed consent (from unknowing training subjects or from platform users). This data is then sent to and accessed by a private company with many incentives to share and monetize this data.
By using these platforms, we are encouraging them to collect even more nonconsensual data on everyone. This is an important social responsibility to consider. Choose carefully.
#Privacy #Consent #Ethics #AI #NoAI

2026-01-17 16:56:47 UTC

If you just left Bluesky today to join or come back to Mastodon, welcome (back)!
We are glad you are here with us :blobheartcat:
#Bluesky #Mastodon #Fediverse

2026-01-15 16:38:13 UTC

Ethically, I don't feel there's much difference between having an account on Truth Social and having an account on X at this point.
If you wouldn't create an account on Truth Social, perhaps it's time to finally delete your account on X.
#DeleteTwitter #DeleteX #USpol #Democracy

2026-01-14 21:38:41 UTC

Why can't the world get better instead of worse?
I'm too tired for worse.
sigh

2026-01-14 21:36:52 UTC

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@nprofile…nxh8 @nprofile…asys "May be an image" 🙃

2026-01-14 18:00:10 UTC

If there's a magic trick to buy brand new Apple AirPods Pro 2 online (not 3, only 2), or a way to somehow disable (physically disable, not just turn off) the on-by-default heart rate sensor from the AirPods Pro 3, I would love to hear about it 👀
#Apple #AskFedi

2026-01-11 18:25:20 UTC

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@nprofile…lhfg @nprofile…p2g2 "Some power users of generative AI have grown so comfortable with their new tools — especially image-generating ones — that they now feel entitled to the specific prompts they use to churn out slop, as if the entire technology wasn’t based on the work of human artists that had been ingested without consent."

2026-01-09 17:18:42 UTC

Consent is the most important concept you can learn about to understand better data privacy rights.
And I'm not specifying free and informed consent here, because if it's not free and informed, it's not consent.
#Privacy #Consent #HumanRights

2026-01-08 02:35:23 UTC

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@nprofile…4xpq I miss doing that. My mechanical keyboards are all optimal now, I have no more keycaps to change :blobcatverysad: :ablobcatbongokeyboard:

2026-01-07 04:30:12 UTC

Periodic reminder to boost the posts you like to keep the Fediverse alive.
WE are the algorithm here :boost_ok:
#Mastodon

2026-01-07 04:25:22 UTC

The data isn't "deleted" if it's possible to "undelete" it 🙄
#Privacy #DataDeletion

2026-01-03 18:27:20 UTC

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@nprofile…swax Protests don't have to be in DC. There are other places that can be an impactful symbol for it.

2026-01-03 18:21:01 UTC

When your country goes at war with another country, you have a responsibility to the people impacted in that other country.
Because you have more power to stop this war than they do.
Please keep this in mind, and act accordingly.

2025-12-30 23:16:49 UTC

I'm not sure that I want a new year yet,
can we put a pause on this please?
#NewYear2026