who are in your view the most suspicious privacy influencers? i am not even talking about obvious opportunists like rob braxman or the hated one. who glows actually really hard?
>>108724349Mike Kuketz is entirely funded by donations The donors are anonymous You can't know WHO is funding him. He has chosen a funding model of perfect opacity.
>>108724349Mike Kuketz: He is an absolutely fanatical supporter of Graphene OS, and the developers of Graphene OS are in close contact with him. The spread of Graphene OS is so important to him that he regularly organizes competitions and gives away Graphene OS phones as prizes.Furthermore, he is an extreme Mastodon supporter. FACT: Mastodon was significantly funded by the EU and the German state. Mastodon was also funded by wealthy "philanthropists." Therefore, it is anything but a grassroots movement.
>>108724635speaking of mastodon funding, here are the main donors:Jeff Atwood: The co-founder of Stack Overflow made the largest single donation to date, totaling €2.2 million in 2025. He had previously donated amounts of $100,000.Craig Newmark: The founder of Craigslist is highlighted in reports regarding Mastodon's 2025 restructuring as one of its particularly generous donors.Biz Stone: The co-founder of Twitter is not only a significant donor but also sits on the board of the U.S. non-profit organization Mastodon, Inc.Mozilla: The organization behind the Firefox browser has also contributed amounts in the range of $100,000.
>>108724585His funding model is the perfect cover-up: No oversight: Since the donors' real names are not public, an organization (e.g., GrapheneOS or an NGO) could theoretically run 500 small standing orders through various accounts to buy influence without it being noticed. No register: There is no authority to verify whether the "540 private individuals" are truly just private individuals. A matter of blind trust: One simply has to take Kuketz at his word that he does not receive any covert large donations.
why are mastodon users so.... weird?https://joinfriendica.de/display/70c1e079-3669-f395-f59b-a46328561000
I wonder why on this board the dumbest and silliest bait threads always get answers, but threads on sensitive topics never get any answer.
