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   Eugen Rochko (gargron@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 02:08:31 JST Eugen Rochko

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   • Evan Prodromou

   @evan We already get complaints about needing to opt-in to features people consider essential for a social network, this would confuse people.

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 02:23:39 JST Evan Prodromou

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     @Gargron Do we know if any other social networks are private by default? I can think of Snap and BeReal, but there are probably others.

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     infinite love ⴳ (trwnh@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:30:46 JST infinite love ⴳ

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @Gargron @evan maybe the people are wrong. maybe their expectations are shaped by hostile design of the past decade+. maybe we shouldn't replicate that design.

     arguably this specific example is one of the lower-stakes ones, but "auto approve follow requests" defaulting to "true" is more accurate to what's really happening than "manually approve follower requests" defaulting to "false". spec/protocol-wise, all Follow activities need to be Accepted. that's the default flow.

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     Doctor Popular (docpop@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:39:23 JST Doctor Popular

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     • Evan Prodromou
     • Tom Casavant

     @tom @evan @Gargron I was going to mention that too. As a response to criticisms from law makers, users who identify themselves as teenagers on IG are now private by default https://www.platformer.news/instagram-teen-accounts-private-default-daily-limit/?ref=butts

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     Evan Prodromou (evan@cosocial.ca)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:39:23 JST Evan Prodromou

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     • Tom Casavant

     @docpop @tom @Gargron wow! A timely discussion. Not intentional.

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     Tom Casavant (tom@tomkahe.com)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Sep-2024 03:39:24 JST Tom Casavant

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     • Evan Prodromou

     @evan @Gargron The new Instagram for Teens thing that got announced today makes accounts private by default- but that's specifically for kids who use social media