Embed this noticecy (cy@fedicy.us.to)'s status on Monday, 18-Nov-2024 07:08:58 JST
cyYeah, there's just no other way to go about it. People can't follow each other, because they could have multiple profiles. If they did, then I wouldn't be able to tell which of their profiles to send posts to. I follow my friend "Susie" for instance, then I post a message; do I send it to susie@instance1, susie@instance2, susie@instance3? It depends on which of those profiles followed me, whether or not I know they're all alt accounts for the same person. If susie@instance1 profile followed me, then it'd be refused if it got sent to susie@instance3.
Troublesome though, because what if this Susie followed me on all her profiles? Then I'd be sending my posts to her three times over. I guess that's fine, it just seems wasteful, and hard to display. And what if Susie reposted a message to all three accounts that I followed? She'd have to change the post author because the Fediverse requires you stay locked in the walled garden of one instance or another (thanks Gargron), so I'd get three identical messages from three Susies, differing only in which profile was the author.
My client could in theory dedup it, if I did somehow know that they were all alt accounts for Susie. Heck if I know how any of us would learn whose accounts are what person though. I really think having alt accounts is important, in case something happens to your instance, but since we don't use public key trust anchors, it's just really messy to deal with more than one account.
Yeah actually... it's just a needless risk to group identity's together into individual persons. (Plus who's to say you're just one person?) Better strategy would be to keep profiles unrelated, and possibly make a grouping table, for grouping profiles, to crosspost to them, or aggregate their messages together or whatnot.
Nomadic identity is also broken. Never share your private key. It's the most important, fundamental rule of public key cryptography.
That being said, it'd be neat if we could get our Fediverse clients to keep a secret private key that you never share, and sign posts before sending them to the instance. Google/Mozilla have been fighting to lock people out from doing that for decades, but it is possible I guess.
I did see some proposals on that once, let's see...
Good luck writing a client (likely in a browser) capable of doing that, but that would enable nomadic identities. Or maybe you already did, and I'm just woefully uninformed?
Right, so everyone who moves because their server got instance blocked, or because they got banned, or because their server died... are fresh out of luck. Just have to manually ask everyone to manually refollow them again. Assuming they saved their followers list.
Funny thing about SMTP though, is this fancy new tech called PGP...
Maybe a better question is when my server gets notified that someone I'm following has a new account, how can it tell whether that's someone trying to steal that guy's followers?
Assume the original server is either uncooperative or unresponsive.
By and large you'll see barriers to business and investment giving elites an unfair advantage in any capitalist system, but even in the mythical free-market where no one has any election rigging, regulatory capture, or market manipulation, capitalism is still a gambling casino of an economy. And the random winners will use their winnings to destroy the free market that ensured their success.
So free-market capitalism seems noble, because it is an appealing lie they want you to believe, so that you'll let them screw everyone over. It's inherently self-destructive behavior. If you argue for free market capitalism, you're no different than someone arguing for everyone to be blindfolded so that no one can take advantage of their ability to see.
We have instancewide admin blocks, so the accounts that would be automatically reported can be blocked preemptively, no report needed. That can be both good and bad... but pick a sheltered instance and you shouldn't get harassed. How would automatic reporting even work? I don't recall, but doesn't the admin interface let you specify keywords that alert the admins in a post? Is that what you mean?
progressivecafe.social is uh... an interesting instance. Everyone on there is a Marvel superhero, and they all have the same... unflinching Democratic Party loyalty. Like, Doonesbury looks like a left wing radical compared to them. Massive sock puppetry is suspected. Just a warning.
what happens to car companies when people have enough cars and how many cars to people need? They painted them different colors so people will always want the latest one, from what I heard.