@toni @supakaity @ada @cody
Here a few flaws:
> I also think it is a misunderstanding to think users will even need to be aware of this beyond selecting their preferences in personal settings.
- A Bad Actor could do anything over Activity Pub.
- A Bad Actor could do anything without Activity Pub.
- One need to assume that everything possible is already done
> Once it is implemented and supported by Calckey, ALL updated Calckey instances will support it by default. Once other fediverse adds support to it, ALL updated instances of THAT software will support it be default.
- Only the ones which are updated.
- One cant assume that complex Software have no flaws
- One cant assume that every Software has the same implementation
- One cant assume that every Software will ever implement things
> Getting Mastodon to add support for it will be the biggy
Ok thats very subjective: No, mastodon has already implementations which arent thought till the end and they plan to add more things like that.
> but once it does this will pretty much become a standard,
- No, to get a common ground, things need to be specified in the official specifications which defines the standard
> and individual users will not really be able to bipass it
- Individual Users can copy a link and post that = Bypass
- Individual Users can open the other instances website = Bypass
> unless they self-host and are prepared to hack the software
- no, selfhosting or buying a instance is enough for example to change a posts visibility
> but given they’d likely be blocked once found out, it is hard to see why they would even bother to go to the effort.
As you can see, there are enough possibilities for good people which uses good software to unintentionally became a "bad actor". All in all you cant trust a checkbox to solve such problems, everyone who does has false assumptions.