Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by Amir6 on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:13PM
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The decentralized twitter idea is great! Better privacy and interconnectivity is even better!
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Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by vonklaus on Tuesday January 05, 2016 @08:24PM
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I don't get it. Twitter is a one to many broadcast channel. Its point is to be public. Privacy doesnt factor in. I think you could make a fake email, but twitter serves as a public channel so if you want privacy and twitter you are sort of asking for an sms message?
Re:Twitter Considering 10,000-Character Limit for Tweets
by smt88 on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @11:57AM
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You give up privacy in many ways on Twitter, not just when you publish content.
Twitter can track you across third-party sites using its widgets, and it also knows your subscribing/reading behavior.
A decentralized system could be self-hosted and only pull in data through RSS, keeping you as anonymous as the IP address that you use. You'd only give up anonymity by replying to posts.