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People are just the worst. Also though, people are absolutely the best, and I love those ppl.
I'm starting to see the wisdom of the walled garden. I mean, it doesn't matter if what endangers you comes from a corporate source or a malicious techbro source — the harm is not only the same but more apt to be wielded by the tech bros and their apologists. And they know you can't and won't stop them.
From a safety and privacy perspective, who is Open Source federation for?
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@BeAware Safety first, though, right. Yesterday's breach was a direct reminder of how techbros design systems for themselves first, which is actually fine. It's when the rest of us participate that the system itself is weaponized in ways that compromise safety.
What I wonder is how open source itself might encourage malicious ppl to use open source to harm others. Do you have an opinion on that?
Walled gardens have other downsides, for sure.
I think you were brave to reply, so thx.
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@BeAware I'm not exactly sure either. Yesterday's case seems like just exploiting existing site architecture. Not particularly believeable they didn't know how it works here.
That's a great point = how things are here vs. how ppl might want them to be. Seems like safety and privacy (different but related things) are important to some ppl and less so to others. There's no slam in that, it makes sense. It should be possible to accommodate all, imo. Opt-in (or out) anti-AI instances, for example.
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@BeAware What they learned and demonstrated to others is how easy it is to scrape the Fediverse for AI, though. They'll be back, is my guess. Am I cynical? Lol, yeah, a little.
What would be helpful in this case would be an anti-AI (or anti-scraping?) feature we could opt into or out of while still maintaining interoperability with the Fediverse. Surely someone is able to develop this. A fediverse moonshot! Why not though?
I hear your frustration about individual account opt-in. Not ideal.
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