@evan This question is impossible to answer. Benefit of the doubt... of what? If somebody messed up an implementation of ActivityPub, absolutely, they deserve it. We're all trying our best. If somebody built an implementation of ActivityPub to steal our data, advertise to us, harass people, or build spam bots? No absolutely not, we shouldn't let that slide just because they use ActivityPub.
@gabek I'm telling you that coming in hot with "this is impossible to answer" is demonstrably untrue, since hundreds of people have already answered it.
I'm trying to get you to consider that the impossibility might be subjective. I give a couple of reasons why it might be subjective -- your worldview, a different understanding of language, or some other reason.
@evan The whole demeaning "It might seem incomprehensible to you, you just don't get it" with an immense sense of superiority. In this case, you're telling me I don't understand what ActivityPub is, and I'm too dumb to understand your question. I take offense to that. Not to you, but that's why I think you could reword what you're trying to say there.
@gabek in this case, you've misunderstood the term "benefit of the doubt". If someone has implemented ActivityPub, do we assume good faith on their part, in the absence of other information? Or do we start off assuming any new implementation is for spamming, harassing, advertising, or data harvesting? After we have that additional data, we would definitely make different decisions, but that's not what the question is.
@gabek anyway, I'm sorry that the FAQ made you feel bad. I hope you understand that every time I post a poll, I get lots of responses telling me how wrong it is and how stupid I am for asking such a dumb question. I had to make a FAQ so I don't get into arguments with people or have to block them.
@gabek good. I rewrote the FAQ item to shift away from implicitly blaming the respondent, and note more accurately that it's probably due to a difference between my understanding of the topic and theirs. https://evanp.me/pollfaq/#meaningless