Re:Mastodon Is Doomed
by SideburnsOfDoom on Wednesday April 26, 2023 @11:37AM
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To have actual off the record, you need disappearing messages (and trust for your colleagues) like in Signal. Not simply paywalled messages.
Re:Mastodon Is Doomed
by SideburnsOfDoom on Thursday April 27, 2023 @04:30AM
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Oh sure, the message history part 90 day is safe only from casual inquiry, not a determined adversary. it's like the first kind of cryptography not the second (1)
I'll take better suggestions?
It isn't "90 days of history". It's 90 days of history you can see. Slack retains it indefinitely.
I know the small ones exist, and I use many, they’re often much better than Twitter for specialist interests (HN is just one example). But I also scroll through Twitter daily, for something the small ones can’t provide: it’s the big one where ‘everyone’ is.
Just because you're not on them doesn't mean they don't exist.
I wouldn't namedrop the ones I like here because I like them the way they are, but consider: there are so many 100-200 member Discords with consistent and vibrant communities.
They're not trying to become hypermassive cash engines, but that's okay and even good. That's a grim way to exist.