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   Scott, Drowning in Information (vortex_egg@ioc.exchange)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 20:48:17 JST Scott, Drowning in Information

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   • Matt Hodges

   @MattHodges My sense is that the ActivityPub protocol, the Mastodon app design, and the social culture of the Fediverse at large are all antithetical to the idea of “owning your own data” and have more of a collective or communalistic approach to data ownership—which is different than corporate ownership, but not the same thing as individuals being able to make personal-level decisions about who can do what with their data throughout the whole data lifecycle. It also doesn’t properly conceptualize how individual consent should be handled in data-fusion scenarios (i.e. when data from multiple people are mixed together, but some individuals in that mixture have different opinions from each other on who or what should happen to their data).

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     Matt Hodges (matthodges@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Jan-2023 20:48:18 JST Matt Hodges

     I have loosely-formed and somewhat conflicting thoughts about how many of us discuss "owning your data" and the #fediverse. On one hand, the protocols do improve certain levels of individual ownership vs centralized and corporate options. On the other hand, the #ActivityPub protocol is specifically designed such that my data is necessarily duplicated to an unbounded an unknown number of not-owned-by-me entities. On the third hand, exponential distribution is a central essence of the internet.

     Rasmus Fleischer repeated this.