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And if you've been in the Fediverse for a long time, you know Friendica and Hubzilla have this feature since.

Exactly. People who save your details in their Address Book and click the "Sync your Contacts" when an app suggests it, are the loophole in privacy and security.

The only way is to have a separate set of email, phone numbers, for those family and friends who doesn't care about privacy and security, that way it is easy to dispose those information later.

Beyond that … if we truly want to avoid it … the only course of action is to not give them anything at all. Not a single email, not a single phone number, not even our home addresses.

I associate "The Krusty Krab" to fake/secondary/tertiary/spam profiles. People I know personally and those I was able to confirm as legitimate profiles doesn't use that or any other fake information (or just leave it empty most of the time). I only see such fake information in accounts used to advertise their business in someone else's threads.

What ultimately caught my attention is this: "Quantum channels send messages embedded in light, and experts say that attempts to disrupt or eavesdrop on them would create detectable disturbances in the system."

How long will China will let that happen?

Made good points but missed the fact that social networks like Facebook and Google started like decentralised networks today. In the Philippines, Facebook wasn't popular at all when Friendster and MySpace were kicking. It was only after the demise of Friendster, and the MySpace was forgotten, that Facebook gained attention. It's similar for decentralised networks. Secondly, decentralised networks are good as it is. It does not have to be the "next Facebook" or the "next Twitter", although many such networks and writers dubbed these as such. Slow growth and adoption is better than an explosive one. These networks are being developed generally for free and offered for free, with no ads whatsoever even. The developers are few and they do it during their free time. Thus a slow adoption is to its advantage.

I use decentralized networks, even used to run my own instance.

Ooh, interesting. I learned to lucid dream in my late teens or early 20s and I've enjoyed it most of the time (except those times when I'm losing control).

It's true, if you're too much into lucid dreaming, there are times when you can't tell if you've woken up. Parts of the dream spill overs in the waking world.

Thanks, I'll watch it!

Yep. And the nightmare, of all things, is Dracula and vampires. I'm aware of Dracula, but vampires, didn't even know that term then (early to mid 90s).

Nope. Usually when I first become aware of the dream world, I am already levels deep. The only time I became aware of those levels is when I start to wake up and I ended up still being in a dream totally different from the level I woke up from.

I've been trying to figure out how to know I am levels deep but to no avail.

Ooh, interesting, very interesting! (And scary)

True. In the creative writing world, there is this notion that we are all pulling the ideas from our stories in some alternate space where ideas freely flow.

And when we notice how our original idea (and we're sure it's the first) is too similar to another who beat us to publication, yet both parties are sure no one copied anyone... well, it gives credence to the idea that there is an alternate space out there... or maybe we can access each other's ideas on some quantum level.

Speaking of quantum level, it might even be possible altogether.