Gregory's ServerSo @snarfed.org gets todays’s prize for setting the #fediverse on fire with his #blueskybridge. Oh dear.
Two observations: 1) there are many people in the fediverse who clearly have been hurt in the past and are afraid of being hurt again. I totally sympathize. We need a roadmap to make the fediverse safer for them than it currently is, because I don’t think it’s as safe for them as they think it is, Ryan’s work notwithstanding. (Cont’d)
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 the history here (and resultant culture) is in direct conflict with what it enables better than anything that has ever existed before. the people who built and sustained the fedi early on wanted to get away from normies. but it's the perfect protocol to build a network where everyone is tightly connected and anything can go viral worldwide. we're stuck with competing visions that confuse prospective users. imo we are the attention layer for the open web. |
@snarfed.org 2) as us geeks, we need to do a better job at explaining just what exactly the guarantees are that the fediverse makes to its users with respect to privacy, control over content propagation to other systems, and what it doesn’t. Also, what a malicious, sneaky actor can do today (and that’s lots!)
And then we need to fix what needs fixing to align user expectations with reality, because there are … gaps, as we can see from the discussion.