I'd be willing to bet that this is a false flag, to use their own term. That in fact the ones calling for the removal of the rock face are actually white nationalists in order to (a.) bring attention to their diagalong group; (b.) have another example of the "woke left" being up in arms about something that doesn't actually matter.
I don't think there is any change in the API. My suspension is that after a recent upgrade to this server they either have a bug that they no longer sending an expected SUCCESS response, or it's taking too long to send it, and b then #AndStatus retries to b send it again, and I end up with dozens of the same replies until I realize it and delete it from the #AndStatus outbox. But that's a lot of assumptions on my part. I don't get the multiple replies using the web client or Mustard for Android. (Mustard is super old and hasn't been updated in like a decade, it still OStatus/GNUSOCIAL as StatusNet). #AndStatus doesn't have the same failure when I post a new quip, nor does it when replying to a post using my friendica account that I have set up as GNUsocial/Ostatus.
I know I don't get the repeating replies when I use Mustard, I'm guessing mustard just shoots and hopes for the best, #AndStatus has a retry mechanism.
they don't need to, but they can. As long as someone is willing to buy the data, and consumers aren't making their decisions based on how much that's collected, they just sign or click agree without reading it, why wouldn't they?
♻️ @sapphire
Doesn't pass the sniff test. Companies don't need all of this information to sell me shit and the government obviously isn't listening in on everything I do because my door hasn't been busted down yet.
they don't need to, but they can. As long as someone is willing to buy the data, and consumers aren't making their decisions based on how much that's collected, they just sign or click agree without reading it, why wouldn't they?
♻️ @sapphire
Doesn't pass the sniff test. Companies don't need all of this information to sell me shit and the government obviously isn't listening in on everything I do because my door hasn't been busted down yet.