Fork it! It's time for a Mastodon hard fork (UPDATED)
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An opportunity to improve safety, the Mastodon ecosystem, and fediverse software development
  • Snot FlickermanEnglish
    90•14 days ago

    If you want a super secure platform for private communication use Matrix for fucks sake, this is a media aggregator and social network.

    Use the appropriate tools for the appropriate use-cases.

    Everything on Mastodon gets publicly posted. Like, what even is this?

    Security and accessibility are always at odds with each other.

    You don’t increase security and safety and also increase accessibility. No, by increasing security, you have decreased accessibility.

    Security and accessibility are a balance. If it’s easily accessible, it’s not secure, if it’s secure, it’s not easily accessible.

    • FaceDeer
      13•14 days ago

      One thing that might be nice is if there could be a standard for user IDs that would allow multiple systems to work seamlessly together.

      You could have Mastodon continue to focus solely on being a completely open media aggregator and social network, but also have some other completely independent and secure private messaging system that uses the same user ID system. Then if you want to send a private message to someone who’s made a Mastodon post you can use that and it “just works.”

      Creating a universal user ID system that would work across all of this is challenging, of course.

      • poVoqEnglish
        17•14 days ago

        ActivityPub and XMPP can use the same ID system just fine. You can reach me on XMPP on the same ID as this Lemmy account.

        • @Scio@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3•14 days ago

          Could you please share some resources about how to reuse a web-finger ID for XMPP?

          • poVoqEnglish
            6•14 days ago

            Well, it’s not a webfinger ID, as XMPP is not web based, but XMPP IDs have the same form, so if you link the accounts in the background you end up with something that is functionally like that.

    • @lambaliciousEnglish
      1•13 days ago

      Matrix? For sure you mean XMPP/Jabber. Matrix is a slut metadata-wise.

      • Dark ArcEnglish
        1•12 days ago

        s/you/one/ I don’t think it’s really about YOU in particular, just “you” the author or “one that is saying things like this.”

        Another example, “Give a Man a Fish, and You Feed Him for a Day. Teach a Man To Fish, and You Feed Him for a Lifetime” isn’t about “you” it’s about the concept of “an individual (that might be the reader).” This phrasing seems to be more agreeable with some people and possibly there’s different tolerances geographically.

        I’ve tried to use “one” in place of “you” to remove this ambiguity but it’s at times uncomfortable to type lol