I think the community I miss on reddit is less and less feasible these days with anything and everything being scraped for privacy-violating databases.
I really enjoyed the small backpacking subs where people would post trip reports and photos of their campsites. Bonus if their adventure dog was also in the photo. They were very much a mix of humble-brag but also-the-world-is-awesome-celebrate-with-me positivity. There’s less of that here on Lemmy. And I can’t even be critical because I also stopped posting such things as much, I am way more cognizant of posting any photo, even if I’m not in frame, that could be used to identify me or be a data input to anyone’s file on me.
I suppose that we might get software that anonymizes photos. I don’t think that there are databases of anything other than facial attributes out there, so just blanking a face with an image editor today might be enough to prevent automated identification with a still photo with existing technology.
But, on the other hand, I imagine that one might combine multiple data sources, and we don’t know what types of databases and technques will show up down the line.
I think the community I miss on reddit is less and less feasible these days with anything and everything being scraped for privacy-violating databases.
I really enjoyed the small backpacking subs where people would post trip reports and photos of their campsites. Bonus if their adventure dog was also in the photo. They were very much a mix of humble-brag but also-the-world-is-awesome-celebrate-with-me positivity. There’s less of that here on Lemmy. And I can’t even be critical because I also stopped posting such things as much, I am way more cognizant of posting any photo, even if I’m not in frame, that could be used to identify me or be a data input to anyone’s file on me.
I suppose that we might get software that anonymizes photos. I don’t think that there are databases of anything other than facial attributes out there, so just blanking a face with an image editor today might be enough to prevent automated identification with a still photo with existing technology.
But, on the other hand, I imagine that one might combine multiple data sources, and we don’t know what types of databases and technques will show up down the line.