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@goatsarah @matthieu_xyz
Recently heard someone describe Mastodon's (& ActivityPub's) privacy stipulations as a "pinky promise", because there's no actual constraint - it's just a convention. It was all supposed to work through emergent behavior. Basically tech-solutionist anarchism.

It does add friction & it probably has helped to make Mastodon fediverse a less hostile place on the aggregate. But I think it also created some pretty unrealistic expectations.