Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
by codeflo on Sunday December 18, 2022 @07:59AM
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> Is this worse than trusting Twitter, Facebook, or TikTok?
Yes for the first two, no for the third. US-based companies are large targets for potential lawsuits, and consequently have processes in place to prevent random employees from accessing your DMs without cause. I obviously wouldn't trust those companies completely -- we're really arguing about probabilities here -- but there's at least some measure of accountability that makes them unlikely to do something trivially stupid.
> there are no private messages on Mastodon
It does have a DM feature -- that they aren't private is exactly the point.
Re:Twitter's anti-Mastodon filter evasion
by smcn on Sunday December 18, 2022 @09:11AM
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It's not about them being read, it's about them being used against me. Being scraped and weaponised to train some algorithm to exploit me. That's the issue I have.
Yes for the first two, no for the third. US-based companies are large targets for potential lawsuits, and consequently have processes in place to prevent random employees from accessing your DMs without cause. I obviously wouldn't trust those companies completely -- we're really arguing about probabilities here -- but there's at least some measure of accountability that makes them unlikely to do something trivially stupid.
> there are no private messages on Mastodon
It does have a DM feature -- that they aren't private is exactly the point.