@briankrebs I think these sites have done a lot of damage to peoples' understanding of privacy and security online with these kinds of tactics. Normalizing over-sharing while also normalizing secrecy. Recently there's been some fuss on here about Mastodon posts being indexed for search...and I've seen several people upset that the posts that they explicitly chose to make "public" are being made available to others. WTF do you think "public" means?? But if you look at traditional social network sites, public posts and public pages AREN'T public. At best they might let you see a short snippet before requiring a login so they can track you and regulate your access to "their" content.

Mastodon is a social network that is actually social.
On Mastodon, public posts are public.
Amazing how foreign those two concepts have become...