@evan I'm 'somewhat disagree' since this is social media.
However, because the Fediverse can be a diverse place and I can see, based on the purpose of the instance, the admins might want to choose private by default and that is absolutely fine.
@evan I'm 'somewhat disagree' since this is social media.
However, because the Fediverse can be a diverse place and I can see, based on the purpose of the instance, the admins might want to choose private by default and that is absolutely fine.
@evan I hope today is going well for you!
@evan @jessamyn
Ah, ok, I was not incorrect in my thinking. They need to store at least your account identifier in the clear to be able to send it to matches. That and learning the phone number for at least as long as it takes to prove you own it and likely forever to be able to repudiate it later if you drop that number, it later gets reassigned, and the new owner wants to use it with the service. At that point the new user would want you to not 'have' it.
So not nothing but fairly minimal.
@evan @jessamyn
I'm having trouble envisioning how it would end up connecting two people. I mean, it could see that it could match the hashes but unless we live-connect and say "match us" because I have the hash of someone's phone number and it hands one of us the IP of the other, I can't see how it connects us only using hashes.
Or are the account identifiers not hashed?
@jessamyn @evan Indeed. While not prefect, at least the EU pays a nod to privacy.
@evan @jessamyn
I would look for what their funding model appears to be. That is a huge ball of wax, but I think many people understand the heuristics by now.
e.g.
If it is VC funded, then it will eventually sell your personal information.
If it is open source but also has a main hosted instance, I would look to how the main developers are funded and how the main instance is paid for.
If it is built as part of some federated and distributed protocol, like ActivityPub, I would likely trust.
@evan
It would depend on whether I thought the service was run by some entity that was trying to harvest data or was genuinely providing a free service without collecting any data.
@jerry @Crell
Meh. It only slows the introduction of new instances, which is hardly a bad thing.
You could have multiple levels/rings of acceptance with outer rings accepting everything the inner ring does please more. A process for allowing promotion to inner rings.
What is society if not a web of trust? What is a society without laws? Just because laws have been used as a cudgel against the vulnerable does not mean it is inevitable.
I hear this same argument from libertarians who argue for little or no governance. That just lets the most powerful win.
@evan
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@evan That was the scenario I feared with all the establishment types (corporate media and political power brokers) calling for Biden to step down, and that would be a party in disarray.
With the establishment political types endorsing rapidly and on an ongoing basis, along with an organic groundswell of support presumably due to Harris's inherent positive qualities among other things, I'm not even upset at the charges of it being a politically engineered change.
@evan I will say entirely fair and assert that it is currently all that *and* a bag of chips.
@evan
There is already a process, which is what is presumably currently considered fair, and it is being followed. The political effect of a *lot* of key people in key positions in the Democratic Party making political statements of support, effectively cutting off contenders, is certainly allowed and perhaps anticipated by the current process.
If one thinks that process is not fair, one can do the political legwork to get it changed in the long run.
So I disagree with the premise either/or.
@GottaLaff It feels like quite the parade of Democratic Party elite falling in line behind Harris.
@evan Good point. It would give the horse-race media something to do without trying to kill Harris' campaign and it would also distract Trump because it would still be an unknown.
@evan If only you coud find something that tricks your brain into thinking you are doing something "productive" but is really allowing your body (and brain) to rest. Sometimes I do try to tell myself that indulging in a nap is not indulging but rather is being more proactive about my overall productivity.
Isn't it amazing how they just can't help themselves?!?
@evan You are most welcome.
I'm not happy with the analogies (rock-paper-scissors & a unicycle (??)) and there seems to be a lot of not getting to the point, but that just may be me.
I found the book via this Jon Stewart video. (I have not enjoyed the few Daily Show episodes recently that I've tried to watch but found this discussion productive)
@evan I've been listening to Parliamentary America in audiobook form. The author believes his proposal has the best chance of succeeding because it preserves the existing House, only expanding it, so incumbents don't feel threatened. The proposal is much more than that and I'm not done listening to it, but it is interesting.
@evan Sounds like something a Stampeder would say
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