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   Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 09:10:17 JST Emmanuele Bassi

   "I don't want telemetry! If you want to know how people use your software, you should ask them!"

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     brennen (brennen@federation.p1k3.com)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 09:10:16 JST brennen

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     @ebassi the thing is, based on the current state of software, i have very little evidence that the people who make the software knowing how i use the software is working out in any way to my advantage.

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     Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 09:11:15 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     • brennen

     @brennen But, in the generic case: polls are strictly worse than any form of telemetry, because at least you can make telemetry work. Polls are statistically biased, and not any better at privacy.

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     Drew 🐘 (dvogel@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 09:11:15 JST Drew 🐘

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     • brennen

     @ebassi @brennen That is perhaps true of polls run directly by an open source project. Those projects could pay for the expertise required to run polls effectively and analyze the resulting data holistically.

     Telemetry is also statistically biased. There is zero assurance that you're assessing the entire population of users. You're effectively oversampling users for whom the software already works well. You cannot appropriately develop weights to counter that because of the population problem.

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     Emmanuele Bassi (ebassi@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 15-Jul-2023 09:11:16 JST Emmanuele Bassi

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     • brennen

     @brennen Conversely, knowing the people that made the software in question, I have plenty of trust in their work—especially because it's all in the open.