Notices by Enrique Barcelli (kikobar@acc4e.com)

Will following accounts in #Threads from my #solohosting #fediverse site create a massive traffic to my tiny #mastodon instance?

Mastodon is famous for caching many gigabytes of posts and profile pictures that have to be deleted every day.

@aral too late... my supermarket has been selling this information for the last 2 decades... 🙄

@liztai Yes! LOL. 😆

But I actually do. 😉

@mrmts I don't think it is so difficult to understand as a user, perhaps as an admin...

Did you probe a bit more about why they have those views?

@liztai sadly, yes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-us-canada-68301474

@jdp23 @mjf_pro @gotosocial @darnell @mekkaokereke @admin @feditips RSS of what I post publicly is not a violation of my privacy.

Peeping on what I read, when I read it and where I read it, it is. Mastodon does not leak any of these.

The same applies to my list of contacts or the hashtags I follow. All these are private.

They may guess what hashtags and people I follow from the ones I insert in my public posts, but they cannot know for sure.

So, all-in-all, #privacy in #Mastodon is actually pretty good for a micro-blogging social media IMHO.

@atomicpoet

So if you are expressing your dislike for Meta and their business practices, I cannot agree more with you.

But @gruber point seemed more about federation/defederation to me... so I think I misunderstood you.

@kunev @atomicpoet @gruber
The reality is that Meta and many other even uglier actors could hide behind any innocent looking organisation... and then remove the mask later....

They can also acquire someone who is already federated...

Moreover, for any AP compliant server or application to be 'defederated', we would need to convince the 23k admins to do it one-by-one... that is the nature of the Fediverse, so they WILL get a clean entrance no matter what. There is no way to block them at protocol level.

Perhaps I am understanding the original post wrongly, but I don't see why we should do a preemptive block (for Meta or anyone), nor how we would execute such a thing in practice.

@atomicpoet

I don't think I like #Meta any more than you do.

However, I still believe that any group should be allowed federate via an open federation standard until they have made obvious 'merits' to deserve being isolated/expelled/defederated.

I have to be on @gruber camp on this one.

@DataDrivenMD
Actually perhaps the opposite, people should approach social media in the same way they approach the real world.

In the real world one cannot have 2.5M acquaintances, it is proven that we can keep tap on somewhere between 100 to 200 people.

Once we cross that number becomes an asymmetric relationship, an audience of followers.

Audience is not 'social', it is 'broadcasting'.