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 @bear and what if those people don't consent to you seeing their posts? Many relays lack consent, some even break the safety model by including the entire post in the Announce activity. So when your posts go through a relay to who knows who, is that in line with the consent model that's touted around the fediverse? That's the problem: you can't get all the content without bypassing someone's consent unless you follow them. 4 comments
@thisismissem Also, thank you for taking the time and energy to reply. I know that you said earlier that you are tired of these conversations, and I hope I'm providing some value in return. @bear yes, interacting with a relay is bidirectional. When you add a relay, your instance does a follow, the relay then accepts that follow and follow's your instance back, and that starts all public activity going to the relay. That is, you're consenting to receiving amplified content, and to being amplified to others. @thisismissem Thank you! I may turn those relays off when I find the accounts I want to follow. Really enjoying ActivityPub and what it enables, so far. |
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@thisismissem I wonder about this. Relays are hard for me to understand in the concept of ActivityPub. I still have basic questions about them, like, if I subscribe to a relay am I sending them all of my public toots? Am I just receiving?
Without thinking about relays, I expect public toots to be discoverable.
The only consent I can control are toots coming from my instance. Which is why I'm not allowing other users without first having some kind of service agreement in place.